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Dubai-Menon-report

Dubai strengthens position as one of worlds top maritime capitals

Dubai strengthens position as one of worlds top maritime capitals

Dubai has moved up the rankings of the world’s top 10 maritime capitals in 2019. The emirate took the 9th spot this ...

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Djibouti

Tribunal rules against Djibouti over DP World claim

Tribunal rules against Djibouti over DP World claim

Doraleh Container Terminal (DCT), a Djibouti port operator owned 33.34% by DP World Group, has been successful in the London Court of ...

Read MoreApril 15, 2019
Abu-Dhabi-Alumina

Alumina refinery set to boost Abu Dhabi port’s volumes

Alumina refinery set to boost Abu Dhabi port’s volumes

Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) has started production at the UAE’s first alumina refinery. The facility is located in the Kizad free zone ...

Read MoreApril 15, 2019
marineball

Marine Ball celebrates female empowerment

Marine Ball celebrates female empowerment

Everyone was in agreement. This year’s Marine Ball, held at the Hyatt Regency on Dubai’s Deira Corniche on April 12th, was a ...

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GAC

GAC expands in South American market

GAC expands in South American market

Dubai-based logistics specialist GAC has opened its newest company in the South American country of Guyana. This is response to demand for ...

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Dubai-Menon-report

Dubai strengthens position as one of worlds top maritime capitals

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Djibouti

Tribunal rules against Djibouti over DP World claim

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Abu-Dhabi-Alumina

Alumina refinery set to boost Abu Dhabi port’s volumes

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marineball

Marine Ball celebrates female empowerment

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GAC

GAC expands in South American market

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The DNV GL and Menon report puts Dubai as the 9th most important maritime capital in the world

Dubai strengthens position as one of worlds top maritime capitals

Dubai has moved up the rankings of the world’s top 10 maritime capitals in 2019. The emirate took ...

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DP World’s claims over its Djibouti container terminal facilities have been upheld by a tribunal in London

Tribunal rules against Djibouti over DP World claim

Doraleh Container Terminal (DCT), a Djibouti port operator owned 33.34% by DP World Group, has been successful in ...

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Operations have now started at EGA’s alumina refinery at Kizad

Alumina refinery set to boost Abu Dhabi port’s volumes

Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) has started production at the UAE’s first alumina refinery. The facility is located in ...

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Office bearers of The Nautical Institute UAE

Marine Ball celebrates female empowerment

Everyone was in agreement. This year’s Marine Ball, held at the Hyatt Regency on Dubai’s Deira Corniche on ...

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Richard Mallen, a GAC veteran, will head up the new GAC office in Georgetown, Guyana

GAC expands in South American market

Dubai-based logistics specialist GAC has opened its newest company in the South American country of Guyana. This is ...

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Kizad

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The market share of the 12 Indian major ports increased further to around 60% last financial year

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For the financial year just ended, India’s 12 major ports achieved a 2.9% increase in cargo volumes,...
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The Hutchison Ports Sohar team celebrating their productivity achievements

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Svitzer’s Nicolai Friis and Essam Mostafa Ibrahim Mahmoud, Director of the Transit Department at the Suez Canal Authority, signing the contract to provide two new tugs for operation in Egypt

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Gulftainer Peter Richards together with representatives of ES, KMTC, RHS and MCL at an event to mark the successful inauguration of the SPOT operation

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William Winters, centre, at the official opening of the new Fujairah dive centre

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Adani plans to further expand its activities in India’s rail sector through the InLogistics acquisition

Adani acquires logistics firm

Adani acquires logist...

Adani Logistics Limited (ALL), a wholly owned subsidiary of Adani Ports, has entered into an agreeme...
Adani Logistics Limited (ALL), a ...
Kongsberg has delivered a new simulator to IMEI in India

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ODC signed an agency agreement at Expo Shipping Istanbul 2019

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(from left to right) Ray Girvan, The Maritime Standard; Ali Shehab, Kuwait Oil Tanker Company; Mohamed Al Noori, Government of Dubai, Dubai Municipality; Capt. Abdulkareem Al Masabi, ADNOC Logistics & Services; Mohammed Al Muallem, DP World UAE; Trevor Pereira, The Maritime Standard; Salem Al Zaabi, Federal Transport Authority-Land & Maritime; Mohammad Tahir Lakhani, Dubai Trading Agency.

The Maritime Standard swings i...

The Maritime Standard...

Dubai-based publisher, conferences and awards organiser, The Maritime Standard (TMS), aims to build ...
Dubai-based publisher, conference...

Improved profitability for DP ...

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Dubai-based global ports operator, DP World, has posted a positive set of financial figures for 2018...
Dubai-based global ports operator...
Samira Chaturvedi, chief executive of KIZAD, signing the logistics facility contract with Amadou Diallo, chief executive, DHL Global Forwarding, Middle East and Africa

KIZAD brings DHL logistics ser...

KIZAD brings DHL logi...

One of the world’s leading logistics services providers, DHL Global Forwarding, is to develop a new ...
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Mundra Port remains the ‘jewel in the crown’ of the Adani Ports operation

Adani breaks Indian port recor...

Adani breaks Indian p...

The Adani Ports group has become the first Indian port operator in the private sector to handle over...
The Adani Ports group has become ...
The latest order for a trailing suction hopper dredger follows the successful delivery by IHC to NMDC of the Arzana in 2018

NMDC orders new dredger

NMDC orders new dredg...

Abu Dhabi-headquartered National Marine Dredging Company (NMDC) has signed a contract for a new, hig...
Abu Dhabi-headquartered National ...
To mark the occasion, Fred Castonguay and other senior management at Gulftainer, presented a commemorative shield to the vessel master, Captain Razvan Adrian Nita

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Khorfakkan Container Terminal, operated by Sharjah-based Gulftainer, has completed the first direct ...
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John Drew, Director, Nippon Paint Marine (Europe) GmbH: “The Middle East Area has become an important focal point.”

Nippon Paint targets Middle Ea...

Nippon Paint targets ...

Having recently introduced Aquaterras, claimed to be the world’s first and only biocide-free self-po...
Having recently introduced Aquate...
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