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Dubai/ WAM AquaChemie Middle East – a leading chemical sales and services company and part of the UAE-based AquaChemie Group – on MOnday broke ground on its strategic, world-class petrochemical terminal in DP World’s flagship, Jebel Ali Port, Dubai. The AED150 million ($40 million) project will serve as a vital gateway, facilitating and boosting the growing petrochemical trade between manufacturers ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Statistics Centre – Abu Dhabi (SCAD) initiated the Labour Force Survey fieldwork in Abu Dhabi emirate under the slogan “The future of jobs begins with you”. This national project is part of Abu Dhabi’s statistical plan to provide holistic and accurate data for developing programmes that support the national and non-national workforce in the labour market. ...

Dubai / Emirates Business AquaChemie Middle East — a leading chemical sales and services company and part of the UAE-based AquaChemie Group — on Monday broke ground on its strategic,world-class petrochemical terminal in DP World’s flagship, Jebel Ali Port, Dubai. The AED 150mn ($40 million) project will serve as a vital gateway, facilitating and boosting the growing petrochemical trade between ...

DUBAI / WAM The Dubai Health Authority’s (DHA) Dubai Blood Donation Centre has launched the 9th edition of the ‘Dami Le Watani’ (My Blood, for My Country) blood donation campaign. The campaign, which was created in 2012, under the patronage of HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Dubai Executive ...

DUBAI / WAM Suhail bin Mohammed Al Mazrouei, Minister of Energy and Infrastructure, said that the latest oil discoveries in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi will drive economic growth in the UAE and strengthen its position as a credible energy supplier. The Supreme Petroleum Council (SPC), announced the discovery of substantial recoverable unconventional oil resources located onshore, estimated at 22 ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Tadweer, the Abu Dhabi Waste Management Centre, has launched a marine waste vessel in Al Dhafra Region of Abu Dhabi. The first of its kind facility in the emirate of Abu Dhabi will be used to transfer different types of solid waste from Dalma Island in Al Dhafra Region to Ruwais landfill on a regular basis. ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Nawah Energy Company, Nawah, the joint venture nuclear operations and maintenance subsidiary of the Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (Enec) and Korea Electric Power Corporation (Kepco), recently celebrated the graduation of the first UAE National leaders from its Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant Management Certification program. Nawah has designed the program to develop UAE National leaders in managing ...

DUBAI / WAM Moro Hub (Data Hub Integrated Solutions) a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa) has announced its collaboration with IBM to launch IBM Power Systems as a cloud service for the first time in Dubai. The new cloud service will enable organisations to benefit from improved performance and high data processing speeds, while reducing operating ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The Department of Culture and Tourism Abu Dhabi has announced significant increase in revenues from tourism activity in the capital in the third quarter of 2020. Findings from its quarterly industry development committee meeting revealed promising signs of sector recovery, as well as a glimpse into future projects and plans to boost tourism in the emirate. ...

Abu Dhabi WAM The General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) has established a Return to Service Committee on Boeing 737 Max that includes specialists from the required areas who are working with their counterparts in the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA). In a statement Sunday, GCAA said, “We will continue to work closely with ...