During his visit to the Wilaya of Bejaia, on 10 January, 2010, among others, as special guest, the Ambassador paid a courtesy call to Mr Ali Drici, Wali of Bejaia and visit to CEVITAL, an Algeria giant private company which not only specialized on food industry but also in the business of shipping construction, assembly of automobiles, glass and housing. With the Wali, the Ambassador called for possible cooperation in food industries, eco-tourism, cultural and student exchanges. The Wali was indeed happy to receive the Ambassador and looked forward to having close cooperation with Malaysia.
During the visit to CEVITAL, the Ambassador accompanied by his wife, visited the biggest sugar refinery in the world with a production capacity of 45,000 tons per day. CEVITAL has also one of the biggest refineries of cooking oil in the world. It also imports palm oil from Malaysia to be used for cooking and margarine. The Ambassador urged CEVITAL to import more palm oil from Malaysia in future given its unique properties compare to other oils.
CEVITAL has one advantage for having an easy access to the port of Bejaia, considered as the number 2 in Algeria after Algiers in terms of trade activities.
Bejaia is famous for producing the best olive oil in Algeria.