January, 2023

• 10 January

  Carter & White opens new boutique in Dubai Duty Free

  

    Dubai / Gulf Time Carter & White –a locally based ultra-premium clothing brand famed for its quality, tailoring and comfort – announces expansion by opening its new boutique in Dubai Duty Free. Carter & White is the first truly luxury designer brand from Dubai and the first Middle Eastern clothing brand to exhibit in Cannes yachting Festival. With the ...

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• 10 January

  Sharjah 24 website wins US-based award

    Sharjah / WAM “Sharjah 24,” the popular bilingual news website of the Sharjah Government Media Bureau, has been awarded the 2022 Global Excellence Award in the field of the web and the digital world. The award, based in the US, recognises the news portal’s constant efforts and commitment to report and publish with honesty, objectivity and transparency all political, ...

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• 10 January

  DMCC attracts 3,049 new businesses to Dubai in 2022

  

    Dubai / WAM DMCC – the world’s flagship free zone and government of Dubai Authority on commodities trade and enterprise – has announced that it achieved its best-ever year for new member company registrations, attracting 3,049 new businesses to Dubai in 2022. An increase of 23% year-on-year, breaks the previous record set in 2021 when DMCC registered 2,485 new ...

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• 10 January

  Southwest crisis shines light on clubby world of airline leaders

  

  Bloomberg The operational chaos that engulfed Southwest Airlines Co. over the busy holiday period was a crisis decades in the making. In the aftermath of a meltdown that led to 16,700 flight cancellations and may cost the airline more than $800 million, blame has fallen on an outmoded crew scheduling system and an unusual point-to-point route network. Southwest was overwhelmed ...

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• 10 January

  Lidl sees busiest ever day in UK last month

  

  Bloomberg Lidl had its busiest ever day in the UK in 28 years on December 23, 2022 as cash-strapped British consumers turned to the German discounter for cheaper groceries. The bumper sales day helped swell Lidl’s sales by 25% in the four weeks to Christmas with more than 1.3 million extra customers shopping at the supermarket chain. The discounter gained ...

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• 10 January

  Wizz Air achieves lowest ever annual carbon intensity result

  

    Abu Dhabi / Gulf Time Wizz Air, Europe’s fastest growing and most environmentally sustainable airline globally, reports that its average carbon emissions for 2022 amounted to 55.2 grams per passenger/km, 15.4% lower compared to the year of 2021, and the lowest ever recorded by the airline in one calendar year. Wizz Air operates the lowest carbon emissions per passenger/km ...

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• 10 January

  Cornwall channels Cape Canaveral with first planned space flight

  

    Bloomberg The small group of nations to have sent rockets into the sky from their own soil is about to gain a new member as Britain makes its first ever launch from a seaside town better known for surfing and sandy beaches than space adventures. The mission will take off from Spaceport Cornwall in Newquay, southwest England, the first ...

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• 10 January

  Millions of Chinese travel back home

  Bloomberg Chinese people are traveling in larger numbers domestically as the nation’s key holiday season kicks off, a sign that the end of Covid Zero is giving way to a rebound in economic activity. Some 34.7 million trips within the country were made by air, road, rail or water, according to the Ministry of Transport. An additional 35.4 million trips ...

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• 10 January

  Jetstar flight makes emergency landing in Japan on bomb threat

    Bloomberg A Jetstar Airways Pty plane carrying 136 passengers made an emergency landing in central Japan after receiving a bomb threat, public broadcaster NHK reported, citing police and airport personnel. Jetstar received a phone call at around 6:20 am Tokyo time from what appeared to be a man in Germany who said he had put a plastic bomb on ...

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• 10 January

  Norway’s $30bn of projects to sustain gas flow to 2026

  

  Bloomberg Norway will be able to sustain gas production at last year’s elevated level until at least 2026 thanks to 300 billion Norwegian kroner ($30 billion) of investment in new offshore fields. “Only rarely have we seen so much oil and gas produced on the Norwegian shelf as was the case last year – and only rarely have we seen ...

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