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  ABU DHABI / Emirates Business Etihad Rail, the developer and operator of the UAE’s multi-billion dollar national rail network, announced the signing of MoU with Al Safa Transport, a trucking and transportation services provider with operations across the Middle East. Signed by CEO of Etihad Rail, Eng. Faris Saif Al Mazrouei and Managing Director of Al Safa Transport, Nabeel ...

  DUBAI / WAM The National Central Cooling Company, Tabreed released its 2017 first quarter financial results. Tabreed’s performance benefited from the new connections made last year, in addition to over 20,000 refrigerated tonnes, RT, added during Q1 2017. These new connections, combined with Tabreed’s existing presence in the GCC, resulted in net profit increasing by 19 percent to AED75.4 ...

  Dubai / WAM Emirates SkyCargo and Luxembourg-based Cargolux Airlines on Tuesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding, (MoU), for a strategic operational partnership in air cargo transportation. This unique and ground breaking agreement, the first of its kind in the air cargo industry between a mainline airline and a specialised freighter operator, will allow cooperation between two carriers with complementary strengths ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The Telecommunications Regularity Authority (TRA), held the first meeting of the committee for the 5G project. This meeting aimed to provide a platform to discuss all aspects related to the use cases and verticals for the 5G networks including the Internet of Things, IoT, Intelligent Transport Systems, ITS, and new applications that rely on these networks. ...

  Dubai / WAM Expo 2020 Dubai has chosen leading global logistics firm UPS to handle the logistics operations for Expo 2020 Dubai, which is expected to attract millions of visitors over its six-month duration. With more than 180 countries expected to participate and hundreds of thousands of visitors on peak days, the next World Expo will be one the most ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The UAE funded a shipment of basic humanitarian relief items, at a cost of over AED1.6mn, dispatched to Uganda for the displaced South Sudanese there. The gesture follows the directives of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of UAE and Ruler of Dubai and his wife, HRH Princess Haya Bint ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, received a delegation from the Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ECSSR), headed by Director-General Jamal Sanad Al Suwaidi, at Qasr Al Bahr in Abu Dhabi. During the meeting, he was briefed by ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM His Highness Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, has held a telephone conversation with Gerry Brownlee, Minister of Foreign Affairs of New Zealand, congratulating him on his appointment as the New Zealand Foreign Minister. During the telephone conversation, Sheikh Abdullah expressed his happiness as New Zealand announced that it ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The Emirates Red Crescent (ERC), has held a ceremony for 7,692 orphans sponsored by the organisation in Khartoum, attended by Hamad Mohammed Humaid Al Junaibi, UAE Ambassador to the Republic of Sudan, and a number of Sudanese Ministers and officials. During the event, the orphans and their guardians received over AED33.8 million in aid which was deposited ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM An innovative e-game dubbed ‘Zayed The Leader’ was officially launched by HH Lt. General Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior, at the Ministry of Interior (MoI) premises on Tuesday to promote awareness among youngsters about the UAE history and its establishment at the hands of late Sheikh Zayed ...