OREANDA-NEWS. February 26, 2010. A high-level Saudi business delegation led by Sheikh Saied Nasser Al-Badawi is visiting Estonia.

Saudi Arabia may be interested in the Estonian wood sector, food sector, and IT and communications sector, said Ulari Alamets, board chairman of Enterprise Estonia.

Alamets said that the head of the Saudi delegation, who is active in construction, has good relations with his country's business elite and is charting business opportunities in Estonia.

Erki Peegel, chief of communication at Enterprise Estonia, told BNS that the delegation also is interested in logistical opportunities and oil shale energy in Estonia.

The Saudi delegation has met with the Estonian prime minister and minister of economy and communications and visited the Port of Tallinn.

The next visit to Estonia of Sheikh Saied Nasser Al-Badawi can be expected in early summer and perhaps with an even bigger delegation, Enterprise Estonia said.

The head of new markets at Enterprise Estonia's globalization division, Meelis Kuusberg, told BNS that Sheikh Saied Nasser Al-Badawi is one of the owners of Saudi Arabia's Badawi Group which has interests in construction and development and production of building materials.

Operations of Badawi Group stretch from Russia to Kyrgyzstan and from Yemen to Saudi Arabia, Kuusberg said. "Hopefully a couple of Estonian businesses too will soon see cooperation sprout to develop Saudi sales channels."

Enterprise Estonia at whose invitation the Saudi sheikh visited this country "sought to give an integrated picture of Estonia's advantages which could provide points of contact between the two countries," Kuusberg said.