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Jordan Report

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"ACT is the only container terminal in Jordan so we are serving the entire domestic market. The way we are profiling ourselves and marketing ourselves is ‘location, location, location’," explains Jeppe Nymann Jensen, CEO of Continue
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March 13, 2016 |
"ACT is the only container terminal in Jordan so we are serving the entire domestic market. The way we are profiling ourselves and marketing ourselves is ‘location, location, location’," explains Continue
March 13, 2016 |
"Traditionally we have seen 30% of our throughput volumes being transited to Iraq. It is now down to about 2.5%. We anticipate that 2016 will be a difficult year but we do hope that there will be some Continue
Jeppe Nymann Jensen, CEO of Aqaba Container Terminal (ACT)
"We are very strategically placed to serve the Levant area in the region and are working Continue
February 18, 2016 |
"Ayla is very unique; it is basically realising the vision of Aqaba in a way. The vision of Aqaba was to have 50% of its activities in tourism and in other related developments. So Ayla was given land Continue
February 18, 2016 |
"We remain optimistic and resilient. I think the word resilient here is very important. Jordan has seen many adversities, not in Jordan but in neighbouring countries," explains Sahl Dudin, Managing Continue
February 18, 2016 |
"Tourism is basically the major sources of income to the Kingdom and the employer of tens of thousands of people. Jordan boasts many touristic sites like Petra, Jerash, Wadi Rum, Dead Sea and Aqaba. Continue
February 16, 2016 |
"We believe that Jordan is far away from having realised its potential. That is great in business. If more foreign investors come here and show what we can do and how it can be a very important part Continue
February 16, 2016 |
"The main objective is to be an example for proving to the Jordanian government that Aqaba can be a great manufacturing location. That is something they didn’t believe at all and now they are Continue
February 16, 2016 |
"The vision of Aqaba, held by the authorities when we first came here, did not give an important role to industry," explains Sheldon Fink, Chairman & CEO of PBI Aqaba Industrial Estate. Continue
February 16, 2016 |
"We have been based in Aqaba for about 10 years. When we came to Aqaba it had about 80,000 people and today it has almost twice that number. The GDP of the city has also grown similarly over the past Continue
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Jeppe Nymann Jensen, CEO of Aqaba Container Terminal (ACT)
"We are very strategically placed to serve the Levant area in the region and are working Continue
Sahl Dudin, Managing Director of Ayla Oasis Development Company
Ayla is a very unique mixed use development on the Red Sea that, among others, increased Continue
Sheldon Fink, Chairman & CEO of PBI Aqaba Industrial Estate
"The total investment up to now in our estate exceeds 250 million US dollars. The goal is to Continue
November 09, 2010 |
Peter Matay
The Jordanian market is a little bit better than the rest of the region, and definitely better than Europe and the States.  Continue
Aqaba Development Corporation, Vice Chairman and CEO, H.E. Mohammed Turk
My vision for Aqaba is to be a cosmopolitan city with people from all walks of life and Continue
November 07, 2010 |
Peter Matay
There has been a sort of freeze in supply and increase in demand which is causing the increase we saw in the first six months of 2010.   Continue
March 13, 2016 |
"ACT is the only container terminal in Jordan so we are serving the entire domestic market. The way we are profiling ourselves and marketing ourselves is ‘location, location, location’," explains Continue
March 13, 2016 |
"Traditionally we have seen 30% of our throughput volumes being transited to Iraq. It is now down to about 2.5%. We anticipate that 2016 will be a difficult year but we do hope that there will be some Continue
February 18, 2016 |
"Ayla is very unique; it is basically realising the vision of Aqaba in a way. The vision of Aqaba was to have 50% of its activities in tourism and in other related developments. So Ayla was given land Continue
February 18, 2016 |
"We remain optimistic and resilient. I think the word resilient here is very important. Jordan has seen many adversities, not in Jordan but in neighbouring countries," explains Sahl Dudin, Managing Continue
February 18, 2016 |
"Tourism is basically the major sources of income to the Kingdom and the employer of tens of thousands of people. Jordan boasts many touristic sites like Petra, Jerash, Wadi Rum, Dead Sea and Aqaba. Continue
February 16, 2016 |
"We believe that Jordan is far away from having realised its potential. That is great in business. If more foreign investors come here and show what we can do and how it can be a very important part Continue
February 16, 2016 |
"The main objective is to be an example for proving to the Jordanian government that Aqaba can be a great manufacturing location. That is something they didn’t believe at all and now they are Continue
February 16, 2016 |
"The vision of Aqaba, held by the authorities when we first came here, did not give an important role to industry," explains Sheldon Fink, Chairman & CEO of PBI Aqaba Industrial Estate. Continue
February 16, 2016 |
"We have been based in Aqaba for about 10 years. When we came to Aqaba it had about 80,000 people and today it has almost twice that number. The GDP of the city has also grown similarly over the past Continue
November 11, 2010 |
Peter Matay
Aqaba Development Corporation is to develop Aqaba Free Economic Zone, a multi-sector development zone, that has already attracted number of mega real estate and tourism investments into this business Continue
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February 16, 2016 |
In the decade that PBI Aqaba has been working in Jordan it has seen huge development; however Chairman and CEO Mr Sheldon Fink says that “Jordan is far away from having realised its potential and Continue