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Nadir Moreno, Country Manager at UPS, talks about the logistics sector in Brazil. She also talks about UPS Brazil, the operations that are being taken care of by the company, her strategy and vision for the years to come, and mentions some of the challenges the giant corporation has to face.
Interview with Tarek Sultan, Chairman & Managing Director of Agility.
Agility is a global logistics player with platforms in 120 countries, including the emerging markets. Particularly the Kuwaiti platform is very important to Agility because of the country`s proximity to Iraq. Thanks to its location, Kuwait is going to be a great place to do business in the close future, according to Mr. Sultan.
“Emerging markets will continue to decouple from developed economies,” admits Tarek Sultan, CEO & Managing Director of Agility.
Interview with Sadoun A. Ali, Managing Director & CEO of KAMCO. Kuwait has to regain the trust of international investors. The capital markets need to be structured in a way that should abide by the most recent rules and regulations. The Capital Markets Authority is coming in very difficult times; it is late to be implemented after the crisis. The difficulty that they are facing is the time.
Interview with Dr. Amani Khalid Bouresli, Former Minister of Commerce and Industry. Kuwait is totally dependent on oil revenue. One of the major objectives of the development plan is to diversify the economy and with the Kuwait industrial authority, the new standards are set in a way to encourage more new industries, not only chemicals.
All companies in Kuwait have their own agencies and we are adding agencies through ownership of these companies. This way, we can have more say in the companies that we have ownership in outside Kuwait. Also, we are doing research for certain niche technologies that can give us the advantage over others.
Interview with Eng. Rawaf I. Bourisli, Chairman of Kuwait Dynamics. The western defense contractors have decreased. But on the other hand, there has been a substantial increase in international construction companies.
Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire’s largest city is also the home of the second largest port in Africa. Overseen by the Autonomous Port of Abidjan (PAA), the largest operator of merchandise through the port is SIMAT (Societe Ivorienne de Manutention et Transit).
In addition to that there are 13 private hospitals with the capacity of 964 beds (6 of which contain over 100 beds, and 7 of which contain less than 100 beds). Kuwait has only 19 beds per 10000 people compared to 39 in the UK. in March 2011, the government officially launched the Kuwait Health Assurance Company (KHAC). View the largest hospitals in Kuwait.
The public sector is the largest provider of Healthcare in Kuwait and constitutes around 90% of the market in number of beds and services. The trend to shift the services from the public sector to the private, in the areas where the pubic is not efficient enough (plastic surgery).
Qatar’s banking sector grows 22.3% to US $190.6 billion in 2011.
