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21/02/2017

Cargo trains from Chengdu in China's Sichuan Province heading to Europe set to double in 2017.

China will run nearly 1,000 cargo trains to Europe in 2017, more than double the number from last year, as the Communist trading giant ramps up efforts to boost its dwindling exports.The cargo trains ...

14/02/2017

"The competing teams are made up of players from local and international construction companies operating in Qatar, many of whom are working on the country’s largest infrastructure projects as well as SC projects linked to the 2022 FIFA World Cup."

Hundreds of football-loving workers from across Qatar are set to compete in the fifth edition of Doha’s annual Workers Cup, the much anticipated seven-week football tournament organised by the Qatar Stars League (QSL) and sponsored by the Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy (SC).

10/02/2017

"Qatar is currently spending $500m a week on capital projects in preparation for its World Cup games in 2022, said its Minister of Finance. This level of spending is expected to continue up to 2021 with mega-projects under construction across the country."

Last year, Qatar ran an estimated budget deficit of more than US$12 billion, its first in 15 years

08/02/2017

"A number of factors are coming together to propel the container port market along the west coast of Africa between the two desert states of Mauritania in the north and Namibia in the south."

07/02/2017

"Rising 200m and 108m above the Pukou District, the towers will be the first forested buildings in Asia when they are complete in 2018."

Rising 200m and 108m above the Pukou District, the towers will be the first forested buildings in Asia when they are complete in 2018.

07/02/2017

"Oil and gas pipelines suppliers are poised to benefit from faster pipelines construction after over three years of falling orders, industry reforms and a prolonged anti-corruption drive that saw major management reshuffles at the nation’s biggest state oil and gas producers, according to the head of a major supplier."

Chu Kong short-listed as potential supplier to a 200bn yuan, 8,972km Sinopec gas pipeline project linking Xinjiang with Zhejiang and Guangdong

07/02/2017

"The GCC economies recorded a sharp slowdown in 2016 amidst public sector spending cuts, tightening liquidity and investor uncertainty, a report said, adding that growth is expected to improve in 2017 across the GCC states, except in Oman and Bahrain."

The GCC economies recorded a sharp slowdown in 2016 amidst public sector spending cuts, tightening liquidity and investor uncertainty, a report said, adding

07/02/2017

"The isolationist trend in the foreign policy of the new US administration, particularly towards Africa, has led some analysts to predict that the Chinese “One Belt, One Road” strategy will take on an even greater role on that continent."

The isolationist trend in the foreign policy of the new US administration, particularly towards Africa, has led some analysts to predict that the Chinese “One Belt, One Road” strategy will take on an even greater role on that continent. After initial contacts with the State Department President Dona...

19/01/2017

"The train left the city of Yiwu, on China's east coast, this month and travelled 7,500 miles (12,000km), crossing seven countries, before arriving at a freight depot in Barking."

The first direct China-to-UK rail freight service completes its 18-day, 7,500-mile journey.

18/01/2017

"Tiny Djibouti, population 876 000, has long punched above its weight. It hosts large US and French naval bases; China is also building a naval base. Djibouti also handles roughly 95% of the inbound trade for neighbouring Ethiopia, population 99-million."

The president of Djibouti on Monday formally launched the construction of a project touted as Africa's largest free trade zone, to be built in the tiny Horn of African nation with Chinese backing. The agreement to build the 48 square kilometre free trade zone was signed in March 2016 as part of Chin...

17/01/2017

Chinese construction company to build tallest building in Djibouti http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-01/16/c_135987166.htm

16/01/2017

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