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DUBAI / WAM Dubai Customs smart innovations have helped increase number of customs transactions in general and in Port Rashid in particular. Port Rashid has dealt with 606,922 transactions in the first nine months of 2017. Electronic clearance had the lion’s share of these transactions with 438,220 transactions (72%), and insurance registration with 98,236 transactions (16%). The new smart customs ...

DUBAI / Emirates Business wasl properties, a subsidiary of wasl Asset Management Group, officially completed wasl district – the company’s heritage project in the Naif area of Deira. The project fulfills wasl’s mission to maintain the city’s rich history, and follows the launch of wasl district Souq in 2015. Zainab Mohammed, Chief Property Management and Marketing Officer at wasl properties ...

Dubai / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of UAE and Ruler of Dubai, received the ‘Informatics Medal’, in the presence of His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of Dubai Executive Council, His Highness Sheikh Maktoum bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, ...

Dubai / WAM His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of Dubai Executive Council, said that the Star Rating programme for Customer Happiness Centres reflects the directives of the Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, to achieve a qualitative leap in ...

Dubai / WAM The Federal Authority for Human Resources (FAHR), has briefed an official delegation representing five ministries and government institutions from Saudi Arabia about the UAE’s federal-level human resources (HR), policies, legislation and systems, during its visit to the authority’s headquarters in Dubai. The delegation was received by Dr Abdulrahman Al Awar, Director-General of the FAHR; Aisha Al Suwaidi, ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The Abu Dhabi Business Centre of the Department of Economic Development (DED), launched the ‘Electronic Trading’ licence initiative, in cooperation with the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA). The initiative aims to reinforce Abu Dhabi government’s trends toward providing smarter electronic services and activate the E-Commerce aspect in the business sector Emirate-wide by taking advantage of internet websites ...

Islamabad / WAM HH Dr Sheikh Sultan bin Khalifa Al Nahyan, Adviser to the UAE President, has met with Nawab Sanaullah Khan Zehri, Chief Minister of Balochistan in Pakistan to discuss bilateral cooperation. During the meeting, the two sides reviewed means of developing common interests, as well as reviewing views on issues of common concern and the latest regional and ...

Dubai / WAM Parker Aerospace, global leader in motion and control technologies, on Tuesday announced a pump call-out agreement with Emirates for its 777X aircraft. Emirates Airline is the launch customer of the new Boeing aircraft with an order book of 150 777X, one of the single largest aircraft orders by value in the history of US commercial aviation. Parker ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The National Central Cooling Company (Tabreed), and Abu Dhabi’s renewable energy company (Masdar), on Tuesday announced that they have signed a service agreement to operate Masdar’s first district cooling plant with operations underway. Under the three-year contract, Tabreed will manage the district cooling plant on behalf of Masdar, providing expertise as well as operations and maintenance ...

Dubai / Emirates Business Emirates will be sharing the legacy of the late His Highness Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan to a global audience in 2018. To celebrate the ‘Year of Zayed’, Emirates is featuring the achievements of HH Sheikh Zayed in the pages of its official inflight magazine, Open Skies each month. The ‘Year of Zayed’ commences in ...