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EUROPE is suffering economically from commercial aviation flights diverting to the Middle East and Turkey, where airports have far more spare capacity, Angela Gittens, the director general of Airports Council International World (ACI World) has claimed. Highlighting growth at Dubai and Istanbul airports at ICAO’s first Global Aviation Cooperation Symposium (GACS), she said: “Internal constraints in Europe [on airport capacity] are allowing more traffic to be carried to other areas – especially in the Middle East, where they have kept up with capacity, and Istanbul where they have a national public-private approach towards aviation – their economies benefit.…

THE EUROPEAN Commission is assessing a planned acquisition of Zagreb international airport operator ZAIC by an international consortium charged with financing, designing, building, operating and managing a new airport terminal at Croatia’s main hub. Its members are Aéroports de Paris Management; France-based Bouygues Bâtiment International; the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC); Luxembourg-based pan-European infrastructure investor Marguerite Fund; and Turkey’s TAV Airports Holding.…

AS TECHNOLOGICAL security features in cosmetics and personal care products packaging become increasingly sophisticated and harder to beat, they will offer more intelligent and multi-functional security. From authentication, to tracking and tracing products during distribution, and preventing and detecting tampering, these systems help brands access their global distribution network, ensuring products move smoothly from production to consumer.…

Sourcing trends in fast fashion in Europe and north America are in flux, being affected by the economic downturn, changes in consumer behaviour and growing awareness of industry practices, especially in the wake of the Rana Plaza collapse in Bangladesh last year.…

THE PRESIDENT of the Turkish Clothing Manufacturers’ Association (TCMA) has said plans by the Japanese fashion giant Uniqlo to open a production office in Turkey later this year are another indication of Turkey’s popularity as a textiles and clothing sourcing hub.…

Two new textile machinery exhibitions due to be held in Turkey in October are expected to provide a significant boost to the country’s textile industry as it seeks to expand its range of machinery across its long textile and clothing supply chain.…

The livestock sector in Syria has been seriously impacted by the country’s ongoing civil war, with poultry production down by over half compared to pre-conflict levels, cattle herds by 40%, and the number of sheep down by 30%. Meanwhile, veterinary services have almost collapsed.…

BRITAIN’s National Crime Agency (NCA) this month recovered more than USD7 million

(GBP4.22 million) after a High Court judge decided that a Turkish businessman was – on balance of probability – involved in international fraud and money laundering.

In pursuing a civil recovery operation, the NCA had submitted that Hakki Yaman Namli, resident in Turkey, had derived millions of US dollars, held in two UK bank accounts, from complex investment fraud and laundering.…

The cogeneration market in Turkey is in flux. Overall combined heat and power (CHP) capacity has dropped over the past decade from 15% of total energy capacity in 2004, to 14% in 2013, primarily due to high oil and gas prices in the wake of market liberalisation that made CHP less cost effective.…

The governments of the Eurasian Customs Union – Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia – are considering designing a collaborative package of measures aimed at developing their national textile and light industries. One key element of this programme will be combatting illegally produced and imported textiles and textile products into customs union territory.…