AD Ports Group, a leading global enabler of trade, industry and logistics solutions, has published its 2025 Annual Report, which chronicled a year of record revenue and profits, as the group strengthened its key trade corridors and geographies of operations.
As global parcel volumes surpass 161 billion annually, cybercriminals are increasingly exploiting the "modern-day essential service" of courier delivery, said an industry expert. A new research covering the Middle East and Africa region reveals a growth in fake shipment tracking scams throughout 2025 and early 2026.
The war in the Middle East is upending lives and livelihoods in the region and beyond. It is also dimming the outlook for many economies that had only just shown signs of a sustained recovery from previous crises, says key IMF directors in a blogpost.
Dubai has announced a set of economic incentives totalling AED1 billion ($272.2 million) to be implemented over a period of three to six months starting 1st April 2026.
EnergyX, a South Korea-founded building energy technology company, said it has secured substantial backing from leading private and public sector institutions in Qatar, including Rasmal Ventures and Qatar Development Bank, for its global acquisition strategy and verticalised deep-technology roll-out.
Bahrain's Interior Ministry has announced a ban on maritime movement for seafarers using fishing and leisure vessels in the interest of safeguarding seafarers amid the blatant Iranian aggression against Bahrain, using missiles and drones, and the serious risks this poses to the safety of citizens and residents.
The UAE's Emirates Global Aluminium has said the company’s Al Taweelah site sustained significant damage during the Iranian missile and drone attacks at Khalifa Economic Zone Abu Dhabi.
Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) has formalised Iron Women as a unified global platform to solve a severe shortage of skilled operators, technicians, and service professionals. The initiative is positioned not as a symbolic gesture but as essential business infrastructure.
Foulath Holding, an industrial holding company with major steel investments and the parent company of Bahrain Steel and SULB, has announced a force majeure situation affecting certain group operations as a result of the ongoing regional conflict in the Middle East.
Aluminium Bahrain (Alba), the world's largest aluminium smelter on one site, confirmed early Sunday that its facility was targeted in an Iranian attack a day earlier resulting in mild injuries to two of its employees.
