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China is working on plans to scrap a system that penalises airlines for bringing virus cases into the country, according to people familiar with the matter, a sign authorities are looking for ways to ease the impact of the Covid Zero policy. The State Council, which oversees China’s bureaucracy, has asked government agencies including the civil aviation regulator to prepare ...

Nestlé, one of the top consumer goods suppliers in Indonesia, will avoid raising prices further after a 5% hike this year began to hurt demand. Faltering sales volume amid higher product prices is happening throughout the consumer goods industry, said PT Nestlé Indonesia President Director Ganesan Ampalavanar. He expects commodity costs to fall in the second half of 2023, which ...

Airline passengers are still happier with service standards now than before the coronavirus crisis, despite many carriers suffering a summer of delays and cancellations linked to staffing shortages. Passenger contentedness has shown only a slight dip, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) said, with 80% of people in a recent survey declaring themselves very satisfied or somewhat satisfied, compared with ...

Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) opened a bridge connecting a terminal and satellite concourse, part of a wider HK$9 billion ($1.15 billion) upgrade even as a full recovery in air traffic remains far off. “What the airport engineers and practitioners want to make sure is we complete the facilities in advance of the demand coming up,” said Ricky Leung, HKIA’s executive ...

Uniper SE reported one of the biggest losses in German corporate history, with Russia’s stranglehold on gas supplies leaving the giant utility struggling to survive. Uniper reported a net loss of about €40 billion ($39.3 billion) in the first nine months of the year after being forced to buy gas at prices far beyond what it paid Russia under long-term ...

One of Europe’s greenest utilities, Orsted A/S, is set to make more money this year thanks in part to burning more coal as Europe turns to the polluting fuel to provide energy security. While Orsted mostly generates electricity from an increasing fleet of wind farms at sea, it also has plants that produce power and heat from burning coal and ...

Galp Energia SGPS SA, Portugal’s biggest oil company, said it wants partners for its renewable energy business in different countries where it operates. “We’re growing all our traditional businesses, including upstream, but the renewables business is going to grow so much faster than you would want eventually to have partnerships in different countries, or different projects, without necessarily having to ...

The world’s largest solar company warned that stricter US import requirements for panel shipments will continue to create disruptions to the American market through next year. Longi Green Energy Technology Co. projects between 20 to 50 gigawatts of US solar market demand in 2023, the Chinese company said in an earnings briefing, according to a note by Daiwa Capital Markets. ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM  UAE-China bilateral trade has exceeded $64 billion during the first eight months of 2022, which marked a 27.93 percent increase compared to the same period last year, a top Chinese diplomat told the Emirates News Agency (WAM) “China has become the UAE’s largest non-oil trading partner in the world, and the UAE remained China’s second-largest trading ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM     Adnoc Refining, a joint venture company between the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc), Eni, and OMV, announced on Thursday that it has entered into a strategic agreement with ADQ, an Abu Dhabi-based investment and holding company, Veolia Middle East (Veolia), and Vision International Investment Company (Vision Invest) to acquire its waste management operations in Al ...