Emirates Business All of its commercial and business activities are now carried out in the second floor of the plush Sharaf Building owned by the Sharaf Group, who has also been SriLankan Airlines’ General Sales Agent in Dubai since June 1. Some of the dignitaries that graced the occasion were –Mr.Charitha Yattogoda, Consul General for Sri Lanka in Dubai, ...

Bloomberg Mexico’s biggest department-store operator became a dealmaker to jump start growth. Its second major purchase this summer is winning over investors who were startled by the first one. El Puerto de Liverpool SAB posted the second-biggest returns among major Mexico companies since agreeing August 10 to buy the Suburbia clothing chain from Wal-Mart Stores Inc. in a deal valued ...

  Bloomberg Airline miscues — such as the computer glitches that grounded hundreds of thousands of passengers this summer — are now the biggest cause of flight delays in the US Late arrivals triggered by mechanical breakdowns, a lack of flight crews and other factors attributed to the airlines were the largest category of delay last year for just the ...

  Bloomberg Delta Air Lines Inc. offered its 13,000 pilots a raise of about 27 percent over four years, significantly less than what the employees have proposed in contract talks that have lingered since the beginning of the year. The carrier’s proposal was disclosed in a letter to pilots from John Malone, chairman of the Delta chapter of the Air ...

  Bloomberg Oil extended its biggest loss in three weeks before the release of US crude inventory data on Wednesday, while Goldman Sachs Group Inc. cautioned that any OPEC deal to freeze output may only deepen the global oversupply. October futures fell as much as 1.7 percent in New York after declining for the first time in eight days on ...

  Emirates Business Advanced Construction and Technology Services (ACTS), a leading consulting organisation in the field of construction materials and geotechnical engineering, has announced this year’s international Future Concrete conference will focus on managing construction sites, in response to industry trends and feedback. The 8th Future Concrete Conference will be held on August 25 at the Hilton Beirut Habtoor Grand ...

  Bloomberg Yingli Green Energy Holding Co. expects solar panel shipments to slow in the third quarter after demand from its biggest market in China held firm in the previous three months, helping it exceed guidance. The Chinese manufacturer of photovoltaic panels forecast deliveries of 300 to 400 megawatts in the quarter ending on Sept. 30, down from 662 megawatts ...

  Bloomberg Iraq asked international oil companies to boost output just as other OPEC nations are heading for talks amid a global glut. Newly installed Oil Minister Jabbar Al-Luaibi called on companies to increase oil and gas production to boost national revenue, according to an e-mailed statement from the Oil Ministry on Tuesday. Crude output in OPEC’s second-biggest producer peaked ...

  Emirates Business Doha has 41 projects and 11,722 rooms in its hotel construction pipeline, according to a new report. The Doha Hotel Construction Overview report by TOPHOTELPROJECTS prepared exclusively for The Hotel Show Dubai 2016, reveals that Doha is the 3rd busiest city in the Middle East and Africa for hotel construction, behind only Dubai (133 projects) and Riyadh ...

  It’s been exactly two months since Britain voted to quit the European Union. Since then, the silence on how the divorce proceedings will be conducted has been deafening. It’s an impasse that helps neither side and, once Europe’s August holiday season is over and the region’s politicians are back at their desks, there’s a risk that things could turn ...