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NEW AIRPORT OPENS NEW CHAPTER IN BAHRAIN AVIATION HISTORY
The Gulf kingdom of Bahrain is kicking off 2021 with the grand opening of its new airport passenger terminal, a 210,000 square metre (sqm) building that is four times the size of the existing facility. Following its official opening on January 28, the terminal will be capable of processing 130,000 air traffic movements a year, up from 95,500 in 2019, and will have a handling capacity of 4,700 bags an hour. …
INTERNATIONAL REGULATORY ROUND UP – EU/UK CONFECTIONERS MUST ABIDE BY COMPLEX ORIGIN RULES TO SECURE BREXIT DUTY FREE TRADE
BRITISH and European Union (EU) confectioners must take care to ensure their products meet new origin rules if they want them covered by the duty free goods provisions of the new EU/UK trade agreement struck on Christmas Eve.
The 1,256-page deal includes complex and comprehensive origin rules, such as for chocolate, which can be deemed made in the EU and Britain if all dairy, eggs and honey used are sourced locally, as well as at least 40% of grains, malt, starches and wheat, (which must also not exceed 30% of costs).…
MAURITIUS CLOTHING AND TEXTILE COMPANIES LOOK TO NEW TECH INVESTMENTS TO SHARPEN POST-COVID 19 EFFICIENCIES
The Mauritius clothing and textile sector has been assessing its use of technology to reduce costs and boost efficiency as it mulls how to emerge from the Covid-19 pandemic in good shape to compete globally.
Avinash Goburdhun, managing director and owner of Wensum Ltd, a company supplying formal wear to the UK and USA, said: “More emphasis is being laid on the use of technology across the factories, with more lean production and supply chain consolidation to reduce airfreight costs.”…
EDIT OF OP-ED PIECE ON SYRIAN DIPLOMATIC STRATEGY
ARAB COUNTRIES MUST JOIN WEST IN DIPLOMATIC ENGAGEMENT WITH SYRIA TO FORGE NEW PEACE
After a 10-year-old civil war in which an estimated 400,000 people have died, calls for restoring diplomatic relations with the ruthless government of Bashar al-Assad, now controlling around 75% of the country, sound like bitter medicine.…
EU COUNCIL AUTHORISES SANCTIONS LAW TARGETED AT TURKISH OIL AND GAS SECTOR
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has ramped up pressure on Turkey to stop exploratory oil and gas drilling in Mediterranean waters that EU member state Cyprus claims is within its exclusive economic zone (EEZ). Turkey’s state-owned oil company TPAO (Türkiye Petrolleri Anonim Ortaklığı) has sent its drillship Yavuz south of Cyprus, notably testing areas close to Israel’s EEZ that have anticipated major gas deposits.…
TURKEY FINISHERS HELP DEVELOP IMPORTANT ANTI-VIRAL TEXTILE COATING
The Turkish textile finishing industry is playing a key role in helping UK-based international chemical producer LiquidNano make and sell new DiOX high-performance fabric coatings for water and oil repellency and anti-viral properties, helping Turkey textile manufacturers target demand created by the Covid-19 pandemic.…
TURKEY FINISHERS HELP DEVELOP IMPORTANT ANTI-VIRAL TEXTILE COATING
The Turkish textile finishing industry is playing a key role in helping UK-based international chemical producer LiquidNano make and sell new DiOX high-performance fabric coatings for water and oil repellency and anti-viral properties, helping Turkey textile manufacturers target demand created by the Covid-19 pandemic.…
TURKISH DENIM MAJOR MAVI JEANS KEEPS GROWING WORLDWIDE, DESPITE COVID-19
Mavi, the Turkish denim giant, sold 9.7 million pairs of jeans worldwide in 2019, and, its chief executive has told just-style, has rebounded from the shuttering of the garment sector earlier this year with e-commerce sales doubling in its major markets.…
INDONESIA CHALLENGES LEGALITY OF EU PALM OIL BIOFUEL RESTRICTIONS
A WORLD Trade Organisation (WTO) disputes panel will assess whether import restrictions created by the European Union (EU) to reduce the use of carbon-intensive biofuels comply with global trading rules.
The Indonesian government is challenging portions of the EU’s renewable energy directive (RED) linked to EU guidance limiting the indirect land use change (ILUC) of biofuel feedstock cultivation.…
TEXTILE INDUSTRY INNOVATORS CREATING NEW STRAINS OF SUSTAINABLE NATURALLY COLOURED COTTON
Textile industry innovators are seeking to create and improve naturally coloured cotton, that can reduce or even remove the need for manufacturers to add dyes that can be expensive and generate significant levels of pollution.
Natural coloured cotton is not new, with Liv Severino, head of Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (Embrapa), the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation, a state-owned research corporation affiliated with Brazil’s ministry of agriculture, livestock and food supply, noting evidence that human clothes were made from such fibres in the Andes 5,000 years ago.…