Dubai / WAM Passengers travelling to Melbourne, Australia will now have another direct flight option with Emirates announcing that flights EK408 and EK409 will begin operating as nonstop services from Dubai from October 30. Operated by an Emirates B777-300ER aircraft, EK408 will depart Dubai at 03:00hrs and arrive in Melbourne (MEL) at 23:20hrs. The return flight, EK409, will leave Melbourne …

  ABU DHABI / WAM The Arab Trade Financing Program (ATFP) approved 117 requests for financing trade deals worth US$249 million during its board meeting on Wednesday, which was dedicated to reviewing trade finance activities during the first quarter of the year. With the latest approvals, the cumulative volume of financing made available by the Abu Dhabi-based ATFP since inception in …

  Dubai / Emirates Business The second batch of graduates of the world’s pioneering Internal Auditing training programme were honoured at the recent graduation ceremony by UAE IAA in collaboration with the Higher Colleges of Technology and Protiviti at HCT, Abu Dhabi Men’s college and was attended by Abdulqader Obaid Ali, UAE IAA President, Ahmed Al Khouli, HCT Head of …