SAN FRANCISCO: Blackbird plc, the developer and seller of the market-leading cloud video platform Blackbird, will participate in the Google Cloud Partner Pavilion at IBC 2019, a press release noted. Blackbird will demonstrate its cloud video platform to visitors at the Google Cloud Partner Pavilion during the IBC conference and exhibition in Amsterdam – one…
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MSC Gülsün completes first voyage from Asia to Europe
GENEVA: MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company has announced that MSC Gülsün, the world’s largest container ship, has arrived in Europe after completing its landmark maiden voyage from the north of China. MSC Gülsün is the first of a new class of 23,000+ TEU vessels to be added in 2019-2020 to the global shipping network of MSC,…
Pakistan to unveil new shipping policy next week
KARACHI: Pakistan’s Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) has approved the new shipping policy, which would strengthen the shipping sector and benefit exporters, Federal Minister for Maritime Affairs Ali Zaidi said on Saturday. “I will hold a press conference next week to share the details of the new policy,” the minister said speaking at Karachi Chamber of…
Messe Frankfurt sets a new record of around €718 million sales in 2019
FRANKFURT: Messe Frankfurt, the largest player in the German trade fair industry is setting a new record of around €718 million sales in 2019. Messe Frankfurt has 30 subsidiaries and 56 sales partners in 190 countries. Pakistan is one of the largest sales partners of Messe Frankfurt and helps organize over 50 government pavilions and…
EFG Hermes reports 49% growth in net profits
CAIRO, EGYPT: EFG Hermes, the leading financial services corporation in Frontier Emerging Markets (FEM), reported solid results for second quarter of 2019. Group recorded a net profit after tax and minority interest of EGP 304 million in 2Q19, up 49% Y-o-Y, on revenues of EGP 1.1 billion, reflecting a 13% Y-o-Y increase. For the first…
ADB approves $500mn loan for Pakistan
KARACHI: Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $500 million loan for Pakistan to support and improve trade competitiveness and exports and help finance the trade deficit. Muhammad Hammad Azhar, Minister for Economic Affairs witnessed the loan signing of Trade & Competitiveness Program (Subprogram – 1) amounting to $500 million between the Government of Pakistan…
Pakistan seizes Indian origin expired sugar destined for Afghanistan
KARACHI: Directorate General of Transit Trade has seized large number of Indian origin consignments mis-declared as ‘White Crystalline Sugar’, destined to be consumed in Afghanistan, as the sugar was expired and unfit for human consumption. The value of the seized goods is $5.7 million, customnews.pk reported. Transit of sugar unfit for human consumption through the…
TDAP to hold Pakistan Pavilion at Intersec 2020
KARACHI: Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP) will participate at Intersec 2020 to be held in Middle East during January 19-21, 2020, and would hold a Pakistan Pavilion. TDAP will provide subsidized stalls to increase the exports of personal protection equipment (PPE), corporate wear/uniform protecting clothing, gloves, workwear, foot protection, hand/arm protection, firefighting equipment, rescue…
PSA International acquires Halterm container terminal
SINGAPORE: PSA International Pte Ltd (PSA) has completed the acquisition of Halterm Container Terminal in the Port of Halifax, Canada, from Macquarie Infrastructure Partners, a fund managed by Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets, following formal approval by the relevant regulatory authorities. Halterm is the only container terminal in Eastern Canada that can serve mega container…
Pakistan’s pharma companies take a hit as border with Afghanistan closed and fenced
KARACHI: The pharmaceutical manufacturers are anticipating a significant decline in sales, as the border with Afghanistan was closed stopping informal export of medicine to the neighboring country, an industry official said. “Only our company used to send medicines worth approximately Rs1.0 billion to Afghanistan through informal channels,” an official of a local pharmaceutical manufacturing company…
SGS Pakistan for collective efforts to promote standardization of products
KARACHI: Managing Director of SGS Pakistan Abdul Razzak Lakhani has stressed that the business and industrial community of Karachi Chamber of Commerce & Industry (KCCI) must work collectively with SGS Pakistan to promote the standardization of products both either being produced and imported in Pakistan or being exported to other countries which would certainly ensure…
DP World reports 1.6% gross volume growth in 2Q2019
DUBAI, UAE: DP World PLC handled 35.8 million TEU (Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units) across its global portfolio of container terminals in the first half of 2019, with gross container volumes growing by 0.5% year-on-year on a reported basis and 0.5% on a like-for-like basis. Strong performance across Asia Pacific, Indian Subcontinent and Africa drove growth in…