DUBAI / WAM Arab-Italian economic and trade relations will get a boost, particularly in the halal industry, following the signing of an agreement between Etihad Credit Insurance (ECI), and the Joint Italian Arab Chamber of Commerce (JIACC). The move is also in line with ECI’s mandate to support UAE’s non-oil diversification strategy by offering UAE businesses a range of conventional ...

SHARJAH / WAM Sharjah Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI), recorded a growth of 16 percent in new members during the first quarter of 2019 compared to the first quarter of 2018. The chamber said it had 1,464 new members, while those who have renewed their membership has risen to 15,338, a growth rate of six percent as compared to ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Abu Dhabi General Services Company (Musanada), announced that the nearly AED58 million Al Aryam Bridge Interchange project on Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed international highway has been completed in cooperation with the Department of Transport (DoT), in Abu Dhabi. Considered as one of the vital projects that aim to develop and improve the main road network in ...

Sharjah / WAM His Highness Dr Sheikh Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, allocated AED2.5 million to enrich Sharjah’s libraries with the latest publications. The announcement came following the inauguration of the 11th Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival (SCRF 2019), at the Sharjah Expo Centre. The funds will be used to purchase the latest publications ...

Dubai / WAM Dubai Islamic Economy Development Centre (DIEDC), announced that it signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC), to exchange knowledge, experience, and best practices in Islamic economy, as well as boost bilateral relations between Dubai and Hong Kong. Abdulla Mohammed Al Awar, DIEDC CEO, and Raymond Yip, Deputy Executive Director of ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The Emirates Red Crescent (ERC), has sent a relief plane to Tehran carrying 95 tonnes of humanitarian aid to support those affected by the floods in Iran. The aid was delivered following the directives of President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, with the support of the Vice President, Prime Minister of the UAE and ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Abu Dhabi Waste Management Centre (Tadweer), on Wednesday opened the first battery solar system in the region at its Al Dhafra Landfill. A solar-plus-storage plant is an energy storage system charged by a connected solar power plant. The facility at Al Dhafra Landfill has minimal operation and maintenance costs compared to conventional plants, and utilises the ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Etihad Airways will be the first airline in the region to operate a flight without any single-use plastics on board, in a bid to raise awareness of the effects of plastic pollution, on the occasion of Earth Day. Flight EY484 will depart from Abu Dhabi on April 21, and land in Brisbane on April 22, which ...

Bloomberg Almost 15 months into the job, and the boss of South Africa’s state-owned electricity company is getting to grips with issues spanning corruption to defective power plants that threatened to collapse the grid. “The days of surprises are over,” Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd. CEO Phakamani Hadebe said in an interview. “We just have to speed up the process of ...

Bloomberg Angela Merkel will leave Brexit worries by the shoreline as she cuts the opening ribbon on a giant wind farm out in the Baltic Sea, a move that will do little to gloss over her tarnished reputation as Germany’s climate chancellor. The Arkona wind park, a joint venture of utility EON SE and Norway’s oil and gas giant Equinor ...