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Dubai / WAM Etihad Credit Insurance (ECI), the UAE Federal Export Credit Insurance Company, welcomed Dubai Cable Company (Ducab), to the trade insurance marketplace and will be supporting its expansion plans by offering international trade credit coverage. Ducab, a UAE-based global player in the development, design, manufacture, marketing and distribution of copper and aluminium wire and cable products, works with ...

DUBAI / WAM Enoc Group announced that it has been awarded the Golden Peacock Award for Sustainability for the third year in a row. Among 228 global applicants, the Group was recognised for its commitment to improving sustainability standards. Since 2014, Enoc Group has reduced its emission intensity by about 24% and water intensity by about 17% in its manufacturing ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) on Sunday announced the completion of its historic project to export UAE-developed industrial technology, with the conclusion of performance guarantee tests at Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba). EGA won a competitive international tender in 2016 to supply its aluminium smelting technology to Alba for a major expansion project (Line 6 Expansion Project), in ...

DUBAI / WAM Emirates Post has announced that customers can renew their PO Box subscriptions starting Sunday and encourages them to do so before February 29, 2020. Customers can renew their PO Box at any Emirates Post Customer Happiness Centre, via the website www.epg.gov.ae or the EPG Mobile Services app. Customers have the opportunity as from now to subscribe for ...

ABU DHABI / Emirates Business Abu Dhabi Ports has been awarded with the prestigious Innovative Organisation Level 3 Certification by Global Innovation Management Institute (GIMI). The certification was conferred by the Boston-based think tank during its annual conference, which took place in Colombia in November 2019. The recognition demonstrates the value of initiatives such as Abu Dhabi Ports’ highly successful ...

Dubai / Emirates Business Bayt.com, the Middle East’s leading career site, has launched a new and improved version of its mobile application for job seekers, available on iOS and Android for free. This all-mobile experience offers a fresh and modern design and interactive features in Arabic and English to make the job seeking process faster and more seamless. Bayt.com’s easy-to-use ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Khalifa Fund for Enterprise Development announced a range of hospitality and food and beverage start-ups which will participate in the Liwa International Festival – Moreeb Dune, between December 26 and January 10. Through supporting start-ups participating in the festival, Khalifa Fund seeks to promote entrepreneurial presence in social, entertainment and commercial activities, seeking to grow ...

VIENNA / WAM The UAE is strictly committed to its nuclear policy principles of transparency, safety and security, sustainability and international cooperation to ensure that its Peaceful Nuclear Energy Programme is developed in line with the highest standards, said Hamad Al Kaabi, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the UAE to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). In a statement made ...

DUBAI / WAM Dubai’s non-oil foreign trade volumes surged to 83 million tonnes in the first nine months of 2019, an increase of 22 percent year-on-year from 68 million tonnes in the corresponding period last year. The volume of re-exports skyrocketed 48 percent to reach 13 million tons. Exports rose by 47% to 14 million tonnes while imports grew by ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD), announced that it is providing $300 million in development aid to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. The Fund said in a statement, “The UAE leadership’s decision reaffirms the commitment to standing alongside the brotherly leadership and people of Jordan, reflecting the nation’s foreign policy that carries the legacy of ...