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  Dubai / WAM dnata has been named Ground Handler of the Year at the 2017 Air Cargo News awards for the fourth consecutive year. The award winners are determined by a mix of direct voting by more than 18,000 supply chain professionals and company submissions. “Our ground handling teams around the world work tirelessly to ensure our customers receive the ...

  Dubai / WAM The Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI), announced plans to open a new representative office in Buenos Aires, Argentina, which will become the chamber’s second office in Latin America. The announcement came during a meeting between Argentina’s Vice President, Gabriela Michetti, and a high-level delegation from Dubai. The delegation visited the country as part of ...

  Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Etihad Airways said it was disappointed that despite its significant investments in Alitalia, the Italian airline had on Tuesday entered extraordinary administration. James Hogan, President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Etihad Aviation Group, said: “We have done all we could to support Alitalia, as a minority shareholder, but it is clear this business ...

  Dubai / WAM Lt. General Dahi Khalfan Tamim, Deputy Chairman of Police and General Security in Dubai, the Honorary Chairman of the Protection of Maritime Environment Society launched the first phase of the fish production enhancement programme in the presence of Sultan bin Sulayem, DP World Group Chairman, CEO and Chairman of Ports, Customs and Free Zone Corporation. Seven ...

  Bloomberg Saudi Aramco is seeking to boost its fuel-trading volume by more than a third as the world’s biggest crude exporter expands its capacity to refine oil to grab a bigger share of growing markets in Asia and Africa. Aramco, as Saudi Arabian Oil Co. is known, is building refineries in the kingdom and in Asia to help it ...

  Bloomberg After five years of snapping up more oil assets than any of its peers in North America, Crescent Point Energy Corp. is turning its focus to getting more out of them. Chief Executive Officer Scott Saxberg says that rather than scouting for new assets to buy, the company is trying to keep a lid on costs, drilling new ...

  Bloomberg OPEC is certain to extend cuts in oil output when its ministers meet later in May and will need to keep limiting production until as late as the end of 2018, a veteran market analyst said. The reaction of global crude inventories to the cuts will determine how long the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and allied producers ...

  Bloomberg Truck Alliance Inc., an Uber-type service for trucks in China known as Huochebang, is near an agreement to raise about $156 million, people familiar with the matter said. The investment will be led by Baidu Capital, the investment arm of China’s largest search engine, and could be announced as soon as this week, said the people, who asked ...

  Bloomberg Ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing is near an agreement to raise at least $5 billion in a deal that would make it the most valuable startup in China, according to people familiar with the matter. The round may close as soon as this week and would lift Didi’s valuation to about $50 billion, up from a previous $34 billion ...

  Bloomberg China’s run of solid economic indicators proved little consolation for its shaky financial markets in April. The dichotomy stems from a shift in the leadership’s focus towards reducing leverage — one that’s set to determine whether growth joins asset prices in heading down. Economists are practically unanimous in saying that reduced debt loads would be good for China’s ...