Abu Dhabi / WAM CSP Abu Dhabi container terminal, the first greenfield project of Cosco Shipping Ports Limited (CSP) operating within Abu Dhabi Ports’ flagship deep-water port Khalifa Port, has announced its terminal will be the first in the Middle East to implement an autonomous port truck system. Following a two-month trial period, a total of six electric Q-Trucks will ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Abu Dhabi Emergency, Crisis and Disasters Committee, in collaboration with Abu Dhabi Public Health Centre, has updated the home quarantine guidelines for those in contact with a positive case, to protect the health and safety of all community members. Those vaccinated must quarantine for seven days and take a PCR test on day 6. If the ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM World Future Energy Summit, part of Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week, has signed key stakeholder agreements with the Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure, Bee’ah and EDF Renewables. The event, which provides a platform to showcase clean energy and sustainable projects, initiatives and developments for the Middle East – will be held in Abu Dhabi’s National Exhibition Centre ...

The buyout industry’s controversial shopping trip in the UK has probably only just begun. Agreeable boards, short-termist stock market investors and a testy antitrust regime are tilting the playing field. Around half of UK takeovers of more than $1 billion have been private equity-led over the last year. The offer for Wm Morrison Supermarkets Plc, worth $13 billion including assumed ...

When we envision our future, we often think in terms of technology, culture and geopolitics. All of that determines both our lifestyle and the kinds of cities we build. US cities have arrived at a crossroads. Explosive growth in the South and Southwest, heightened awareness of inequality, an aging population and technology that redefines transportation and buildings are changing priorities ...

Australia has taken a small step towards dismantling part of the stimulus it unleashed to fight Covid-19. This is no rush for the exit by the Reserve Bank, once the envy of the world for presiding over a three-decade run without a recession. Interest rate increases are years away. As financial markets and the global economy cratered last year, the ...

Credit Suisse Group AG has portentously unveiled a new vision for its employees’ work-life balance with “The Way We Work.” The initiative, which promises maximum flexibility, is just too good to be true or manageable. It’s the latest example of what’s becoming an all-too-common theme: large employers virtue signaling that they’re now all hip and flexible when it comes to ...

Bloomberg London’s Heathrow Airport is dusting off facilities that have been mothballed for over a year, as Europe’s busiest airport prepares for a long-awaited surge in air traffic. The hub reopened its second runway and plans to resume normal operations at Terminal 3 starting from July 15, a spokesman said. T3 closed in May 2020, around the same time Heathrow ...

Bloomberg Airbus SE delivered more than 70 jets in June, one of its best months for handovers since the start of the pandemic, according to people familiar with the matter. The tally would take the company’s total handovers for the first six months of the year above 290 aircraft, for an increase of about 50% versus last year. Airbus is ...

Bloomberg Airlines in the world’s biggest carbon market will eventually have to pay for all the pollution from their planes as the European Union strengthens its climate policies under the Green Deal. A proposal by the European Commission includes a gradual phase out of emission allowances for carriers, and will be part of measures to be announced on July 14, ...