Bloomberg President Donald Trump gave Boeing Co a little advice on Twitter. The company should fix its troubled 737 Max and choose a new name following the Ethiopian Air Lines and Lion Air Crashes. “What do I know about branding, maybe nothing (but I did become President!), but if I were Boeing, I would FIX the Boeing 737 Max, add …
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Bloomberg On a recent weekday at the newly opened Champion store in Philadelphia’s Center City, the brand’s oversize red, white and blue “C†is everywhere: across the chest of thick cotton sweatshirts, down the sides of track pants and on the front of baseball caps. A couple of 20-somethings sift the clothing racks during the lunch hour. They drift through …
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DUBAI / WAM Expo 2020 Dubai and its legacy are expected to contribute AED122.6 billion ($33.4 billion) of gross value added (GVA) to the UAE’s economy from 2013 to 2031, according to the EY report, ‘The economic impact of Expo 2020 Dubai’. The report states that Expo 2020 is also expected to support up to 905,200 full-time equivalent, FTE, job-years …
Read More »RED SEA COAST / WAM The UAE on Monday commissioned a new fishing slipway in Al Heima area, in Yemen’s Red Sea Coast, bringing to 22 the number of fishing facilities revamped by country to ease the suffering of the Yemeni people. The solar-powered facility caters to needs of over 10,000 people in Al Heima area and its adjacent districts. …
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DHAHRAN / WAM The Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco) and Hyundai Heavy Industries Holdings on Monday announced that they have reached an agreement for Saudi Aramco’s subsidiary, Aramco Overseas Company BV (AOC), to purchase a 17 percent stake in South Korea’s Hyundai Oilbank, a subsidiary of Hyundai Heavy Industries Holdings. The investment is valued at approximately $1.25 billion. AOC’s …
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Emirates Business Etihad Airways, the national airline of the UAE, has announced a new deal with Amadeus to transform its global load control system. The partnership will be launched worldwide to support Etihad Airways’ ongoing mission to improve operational capabilities and efficiencies. Etihad Airways will use Amadeus Altéa Departure Control Flight Management to improve productivity with increased automation and integration, …
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DUBAI / Emirates Business Beautyworld Middle East 2019, region’s largest international trade fair for beauty products, hair, fragrances, and wellbeing opened in Dubai on Monday, featuring 1,790 exhibitors from 66 countries. Running until April 17 at the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre, the 24th edition of the annual three-day event was opened by His Excellency Eng. Dawood Abdulrahman Al …
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Bloomberg Oil companies in Norway may pay some of the highest taxes and wages in the world but they could always count on support in the halls of power. Then last week the country’s biggest political party pulled out the rug from under that certainty in a dramatic policy shift to abandon support for drilling off the Lofoten islands. As …
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Bloomberg Papua New Guinea’s Finance Minister James Marape has left the government, citing differences with Prime Minister Peter O’Neill over resources policy, days after the state signed a deal with France’s Total SA on a liquefied natural gas expansion project. Marape announced his resignation in a Facebook Inc. post, saying his voice was not being heard on policy-related matters, including …
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Bloomberg The Estonian government has decided not to proceed with an application for a 600-megawatt wind farm by developer Saare Wind Energy OU, citing security concerns. The company had been drawing up plans for four years and had applied for a 50-year building permit for 100 six-megawatt turbines off the island of Saaremaa. The cost of the project was estimated …
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