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Everyone knows that UAE’s construction market is booming. Meaning all parties are benefiting. Who, then, is thinking about the environment?

Who isn’t looking for space in Dubai, be it for a warehouse or an office? With the booming construction scene, things look positive. But hold on. Slow down a moment and think about the future. Don’t you want your office or warehouse to be environmentally friendly? And how many developers are thinking about this? Are their buildings sustainable?

Charlotte Eddington, Group Head, Director, Energy and Sustainability, CBRE

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No mean feat that. With all the expectations (not only local but global) how is work going on the building of the tallest structure in the world?

The Burj Dubai currently stands at around 640 metres

Calling the Burj Dubai only ‘iconic’ is an understatement. The world’s tallest building is perhaps better described as an expression of the entire Emirati sentiment to the rest of the world

– “We’ve made it!”

If you’ve visited the official website, you are enveloped in its awe. The Burj is going to need a capacity of 10,000 tonnes of melting ice to cool it everyday. The observatory deck at 422 metres above ground is going to be the highest observatory point in the world. It will have 200 metres of spectacular dancing fountains. It will house one of the first Armani Hotels in the world. So many superlatives in only one monument.

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Whether it’s calculating your position by reading the stars or admiring a snow-covered deck, life for a seaman is thoroughly unpredictable

Das Choudhury Arupnarayan, Stowage Coordination Manager, Maersk

Das Choudhury Arupnarayan is just getting used to his new job on land. He has transferred from First Officer on one of Maersk’s ships to Stowage Coordination Manager in their Dubai offices. His duty timings are now from eight to five.

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One German company will move anything GCC nationals want to and from Munich, including the kitchen sink

Many of us have experienced the pain of paying excess baggage fees after too much shopping on vacation, but imagine bringing 50, 500, even 800 kilogrammes worth of cargo home from a trip. This happens more often than you would think, according to Viktor Fuchs.

Fuchs is one half of the Gross Fuchs company, which specialises in cargo for GCC VIPs and royal families travelling to Munich. “Munich is a very popular tourist destination for GCC nationals,” he explains.

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SAP is known to be ‘open’ and compliant to a number of interfaces, databases and operating systems but is it too dear?

Kevin Scott, Vice President Large Enterprise, SAP

In an interview with Kevin Scott, Vice President Large Enterprise, SAP, it becomes hard to keep track of all the acronyms he throws out: , “ERP”, “SOA”, “ESOA”, “SAEC”, “SMEs”. But perhaps, one of the most important acronyms he will use are “UAE” and “GCC”. The global business software company has now set up an office in Dubai, after buying out its previous distributor SAP Arabia, which distributed through channel partners. “We acquired that organisation to be here directly,” says Scott. “Now we are expanding the channel. We need to have a whole ecosystem.”

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With plans to compete globally in the biotechnology market, and to have an AED One billion (US$272 million) capital value by 2010, Gulf Pharmaceutical Industries (Julphar) will be pumping out masses of drugs. Still, the Ras Al Khaimah-based manufacturer is choosing to take care of distribution all by itself

Abdul Razzaq Yousef, Chief Executive Officer, Gulf Pharmaceutical Industries (Julphar)

Big name pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer, Merck and Eli Lilly, likely have very few kind words for Abdul Razzaq Yousef. He is the Chief Executive Officer of Gulf Pharmaceutical Industries (Julphar), a drug manufacturer based in Ras Al Khaimah, and the market leader for generic medicines in the Middle East.

The company produces over 800 formulations and 184 brands in every major therapeutic category, including analgesics, anti-malarial drugs, anti-biotics, anti-amoebics, anthelmintics, antihistamines, vitamins and steroids.

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With A380s about to flood the region, Airbus has set up a Materials and Logistics Centre in Dubai Airport Free Zone, supplying spare parts for the giants flying through the Middle East.

Joerg Hemerichs, Director Material, Logistics and Suppliers, Airbus Middle East

Airbus recently launched its new Materials and Logistics Centre at the Dubai Airport Free Zone. Joerg Hemerichs, Director Material,  ogistics and Suppliers, Airbus Middle East, and Heino Ostermeier, Vice President, Material, Logistics and Suppliers, Dr. Joerg Rissiek, Senior Director Material and Logistics Operations, and Olaf Lawrenz, Senior Director Supply Chain Management, Airbus, shared their views.

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Delivering four billion packages a year is no easy task. Finding markets with more potential than the GCC could be even harder. As UPS seeks improved flexibility for the Middle East, it promises to deliver more value added benefits to customers, however strange the request.

John Tansey, General Manager, UPS, UAE

In our business we expect the unusual,” says John Tansey, General Manager, UPS, UAE. “The challenge is to manage the change because it remains constant.”

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Abu Dhabi has a systematic plan and a long-term vision for growth to boost its economy and promote diversification in the region. A part of this plan is to develop all ports in the emirate. The Khalifa Port and Industrial Zone aims to do that and more.

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John Patullo, CEO of CEVA Logistics, has plenty of winning strategies and plans to take his company forward

John Patullo, CEO, CEVA Logistics

At the end of 2005, TNT announced its intention to sell its activities in contractual logistics. At the end of 2006, they were yielded to the investment company Apollo Management, which immediately renamed them CEVA Logistics. Then, in August 2007, Apollo bought the American group of forwarding EGL. Four days later, John Patullo was named Chief Executive Officer of CEVA Logistics.

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