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  • riyadh metro
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    The region's 100 biggest projects

    2014-11-15T00:00:00Z

    Projects spending in MEED’s Top 100 Construction Index grew during 2013 and with economies around the region improving, this is expected to continue. This webinar examined projects market trends in the Middle East and forecasts which areas will grow in 2014.

  • Telegraph Island
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    The hardship posting to end all hardship postings

    2014-11-08T00:00:00Z

    It was the hardship posting to end all hardship postings. British officers went quite literally round the bend to get there, writes Matthew Teller, and perhaps sometimes metaphorically too. In 1863 Britain was looking to strengthen its control over the Gulf. The eager new ambassador to the region, Political Resident ...

  • pearl fishing
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    How Arabia made its money before the oil rush

    2014-11-01T00:00:00Z

    To think of Arabia today is to think of unimaginable oil wealth. Less than a century ago, one of its main sources of income was pearl fishing - which was under threat from competition and colonial administrators,

  • Sir Lancelot Oliphant
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    The diplomat who said “No” to Saudi oil

    2014-11-01T00:00:00Z

    In 1932, amid a global economic slump, the impoverished Saudis came to London looking for a loan. They also had an offer: would Britain like to try drilling for oil? 

  • mecca
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    When British diplomats ran the Gulf

    2014-11-01T00:00:00Z

    The India Office exercised colonial rule over an area stretching west as far as Aden. Stories are being brought to light in a £8.7m project for nearly half a million documents relating to the Gulf to be digitised.

  • The Hull
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    In pictures: building the world's largest container ship

    Okpo, a port in South Korea, is home to Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering, a company constructing the world’s largest model of ship – 12 at a time.

  • Shanghai container port
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    The world's top 10 container ports

    The Chinese behemoth gateway of Shanghai maintained its position as the world’s busiest container port. Container and Shipping Trade looks at the biggest 10 container ports and compares 2013 throughput with 2012.  

  • Tianjin container port
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    Tianjin

    Throughput 2013: 13,000,000 teu – up 5.67 per cent on 2012 (12,303,000 teu)

  • Guangzhou container port
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    Guangzhou

    Throughput 2013: 15,300,000 teu – up 5.18 per cent on 2012 (14,547,000 teu)

  • Dubai container port
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    Dubai

    Throughput 2013: 13,641,000 teu – up 2.72 per cent on 2012 (13,280,000 teu)

  • Qingdao container port
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    Qingdao

    Throughput 2013: 15,520,000 teu – up 7.01 per cent on 2012 (14,503,000 teu)

  • Ningbo container port
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    Ningbo

    Throughput 2013: 16,770,000 teu – up 3.98 per cent on 2012 (16,175,000 teu)

  • Pusan container port
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    Pusan (Busan)

    Throughput 2013: 17,680,000 teu – up 3.72 per cent on 2012 (17,046,000 teu)

  • Hong kong container port
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    Hong Kong

    Throughput 2013: 22,288,000 teu – down 3.59 per cent on 2012 (23,117,000 teu)

  • Shenzhen container port
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    Shenzhen

    Throughput 2013: 23,278,000 teu – up 1.47 per cent on 2012 (22,941,000 teu)

  • Singapore container port
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    Singapore

    Throughput 2013: 32,578,300 teu – up 2.94 per cent on 2012 (31,649,000 teu)

  • News

    Highcharts example

    2014-10-13T11:55:00Z

    An estimated annual growth rate of 6.6% until the end of the decade will see global pension fund assets reach $57trn (€42trn), according to analysis by accountants PwC. In a report entitled ‘Asset Management 2020: A Brave New World’, PwC said the asset management industry would grow to $101trn by ...

  • Melanie De Biasio
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    Melanie De Biasio distils haunting jazz and blues

    2014-09-12T14:38:00Z

    Less-is-more singer-songwriter echoes Peggy Lee and Nina Simone: read new interview here.

  • Nile rodgers
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    Nile Rodgers Wants You To Remix His Le Freak Smash

    2014-09-12T14:29:00Z

    Here’s your chance to re-work one of disco’s greatest anthems with Nile’s support.

  • beatles mono vinyl
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    The Beatles In MONO – Live!

    2014-09-10T16:19:00Z

    Unmissable opportunity to hear The Beatles as Mother Nature intended in Abbey Road Studio 2.