DUBAI / WAM DP World Limited handled 34.0 million TEU (twenty-foot equivalent units) across its global portfolio of container terminals in the first half of 2017, with gross container volumes growing by 8.2 percent year-on-year on a reported basis and 7.7 percent on a like-for-like basis, with second quarter growth rates accelerating to 10.7 percent year-on-year on a reported basis …

DUBAI / Emirates Business A ground-breaking new report by the G20’s Global Infrastructure Hub (GI Hub) outlines infrastructure investment needs globally and individually for 50 countries and seven sectors to 2040. The report, Global Infrastructure Outlook, reveals the cost of providing infrastructure to support global economic growth and to start to close infrastructure gaps is forecast to reach $94 trillion …

DUBAI / WAM Abdullah Al Saleh, the Ministry of Economy’s Under-Secretary for Foreign Trade and Industry, discussed various means of developing economic and trade co-oper- ation with Japan during a meeting with Yasushi Akahoshi, President of the Japan External Trade Organisation (JETRO) in Dubai. The two sides expressed satisfaction with their advanced level of economic and trade relations and their …