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  DAR ES SALAAM / WAM DP World on Tuesday announced the launch of its wholesale e-commerce platform Dubuy.com in Tanzania. The online marketplace will give Tanzanian businesses better access to international markets. It will also provide a more secure and reliable supply chain, through DP World’s worldwide ports and logistics network. The new platform enables Tanzanian businesses to buy ...

  Bloomberg Southwest Gas Holdings Inc priced shares at $74 apiece in a stock sale to fund its $2 billion acquisition of a pipeline company that activist investor Carl Icahn tried to block. The price is below an offer made by Icahn, who has been rebuffed in efforts to take over the utility owner. Southwest Gas will raise about $392.5 ...

  Bloomberg German energy giant E.ON and Australia’s Fortescue Future Industries plan to supply green hydrogen to Europe as the continent seeks to cut its dependency on Russian energy. The companies will work together to supply 5 million metric tons of green hydrogen a year by 2030, they said in an emailed statement, after signing a memorandum of understanding in ...

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been met with crippling sanctions, brought an untold human and economic cost, and turned it into an international pariah. But one of the most damaging long-term consequences may be the resulting hollowing out of the nation’s vast pool of tech talent. As many as 70,000 information technology workers have already fled the country and another ...

Signs are emerging that the resilience of American consumers is rapidly waning, potentially undermining one of the few remaining pillars supporting the bull market in equities. US households have until recently mostly absorbed higher prices on everything from coffee to chicken to clothes, helping companies maintain fat profit margins despite higher input. But that doesn’t mean consumers were happy about ...

  Shanghai is China’s most important financial hub as well as the regional headquarters of global brands such as Apple Inc, Tesla Inc and LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE. Until recently, it also executed China’s “dynamic clearing” Covid policy better than the country’s other municipalities. With a staff of over 3,000 conducting contact tracing in the city of 25 ...

  Might Russian President Vladimir Putin drop The Bomb? Unleash a nuclear weapon in Ukraine? It is conceivable. Yet five years ago, it would have seemed fantastic that such a question could be posed about any national leader in the world. For much of the Cold War, prospects of Armageddon filled the nightmares of statesmen and their peoples. During the ...

  Bloomberg Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd plans to reroute its New York-Hong Kong service to avoid Russian airspace, in what would be the world’s longest commercial passenger flight by distance. The airline plans to fly from John F Kennedy International Airport over the Atlantic Ocean, the UK, southern Europe and central Asia, according to a memo to Cathay flight staff ...

  Bloomberg India is banking on sustainable fuel-powered airlines and increased digitisation in airports to clean up aviation as the nation prepares for a net carbon zero future by 2070. India will have 96 airports that will be carbon neutral and run on renewable energy by 2024, Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said at an event, adding all future airports ...

  Bloomberg Cebu Air Inc, the Philippines’ largest carrier, will fully restore its pre-pandemic domestic capacity next month as virus restrictions ease, Chief Executive Officer Lance Gokongwei said. “The travel and tourism sector is well on its way to recovery,” Gokongwei said in a company event in Cebu province, citing increased bookings. Flights from Manila to key local destinations like ...