Arabian Post Staff -Dubai The United Arab Emirates and Canada have signed a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement to lower trade barriers and encourage bilateral investment. The agreement was signed in Ottawa on 27 October by UAE Minister of Foreign Trade Dr Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi and Canada’s Minister of International Trade Maninder Sidhu. Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and […]
Arabian Post Staff -Dubai Abu Dhabi renewable energy company Masdar has raised $600 million through its first blue bond, an AA-rated transaction described as the highest-rated publicly issued corporate blue bond worldwide. The five-year securities, rated AA- by S&P Global Ratings and Fitch Ratings, were issued under Masdar’s $6 billion global medium-term note programme. Proceeds will finance or refinance eligible marine renewable energy projects under the company’s […]
Arabian Post Staff -Dubai The United Arab Emirates and Greece announced 18 agreements and commercial partnerships worth €12.75 billion ($14.3 billion) on Thursday, alongside plans for another €15 billion of UAE investment in Greece. The announcements came at the UAE-Greece Strategic Forum in Athens, attended by Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. The package covers […]
Abu Dhabi renewable energy company Masdar has priced its $600 million five-year blue bond at 115 basis points above the comparable US Treasury benchmark, narrowing the spread from initial guidance of around 130 basis points. The 15-basis-point tightening establishes the final borrowing margin on the dollar-denominated offering, which is structured as senior unsecured debt and is scheduled to mature on 29 October 2031. The securities carry a […]
Abu Dhabi emerged as the leading centre of sovereign investment activity in the Middle East during the first nine months of 2026, with state-backed funds accelerating acquisitions, consolidating strategic assets and expanding international investments despite geopolitical uncertainty. New figures from investment research firm Global SWF show that Mubadala Investment Company deployed $26.2 billion between January and September, making it the most active sovereign investor in the Gulf. […]
Greenlogue/AP Beam Middle East and Masdar City Free Zone have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore the deployment of smart-energy and clean-mobility technologies across the Masdar City ecosystem in Abu Dhabi. The agreement will allow Beam Middle East to introduce and supply advanced energy systems for potential use within the sustainable urban district, including off-grid electric-vehicle charging infrastructure, solar-integrated e-bike systems and other clean-energy mobility technologies. […]
Greenlogue/AP Aldar Properties and Mubadala Investment Company have jointly acquired Masdar City Square for Dh918 million, expanding their income-generating real estate portfolio in Abu Dhabi’s Masdar City to Dh4.7 billion. The acquisition was completed through the real estate joint venture established by the two Abu Dhabi groups in 2024. Masdar City Square comprises more than 47,000 square metres of net leasable space across seven office buildings and […]
Arabian Post Staff -Dubai UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan has called for stronger private-sector cooperation with Germany after attending a major business forum in Munich where companies from the two countries signed 30 agreements and commercial partnerships worth about €9.66 billion. Sheikh Mohamed told executives and investors at the Germany-UAE Business Forum on Friday that businesses would play a vital role in advancing the […]
By Prosenjit Biswas, Head of Marketing at Masdar EOR How can a foreign company hire employees in the UAE without setting up its own local entity? This is a common situation for international companies entering the UAE. You may want to hire one employee, build a small team, mobilise people for a project, or simply test the UAE market before committing to establishing your own company. The […]
Issac John The Silk Road Finance & Technology Forum concluded in Tashkent with a proposition that carries important implications for the UAE: Central Asia wants its historic trade routes transformed into new corridors for money, payments, technology and investment. For a country whose prosperity has been built partly on functioning as the commercial and financial crossroads between East and West, that raises an intriguing question. Does the […]
Arabian Post Staff -Dubai IntrospeXion is expanding psychological support for workers in demanding UAE operating environments, deepening its engagement with offshore and onshore teams as companies place greater emphasis on mental wellbeing, resilience and human performance. The specialist workplace mental health consultancy has been working with Blu Subsea Diving Services, a Dubai-headquartered subsea services company, providing support to employees exposed to the pressures associated with offshore, marine […]
Arabian Post Staff -Dubai Abu Dhabi is emerging as one of the best-positioned global centres for low-carbon hydrogen production, processing and export, supported by competitive energy costs, industrial capacity and expanding links to overseas markets. A new assessment by the Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce and Industry places the emirate at the forefront of a hydrogen sector that is moving beyond policy pledges towards commercially focused projects. […]
Masdar and Montenegro’s state power utility have moved a planned 2-gigawatt renewable energy partnership into execution, signing agreements for two solar plants and exploring large-scale pumped hydro storage. Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company, known as Masdar, and Elektroprivreda Crne Gore, or EPCG, will jointly develop the 115-megawatt Štedim solar photovoltaic project and the 35-megawatt Krupac solar plant. The agreements cover 150 MW of initial generation capacity under […]
Masdar has reached financial close on a $6.1 billion renewable energy project in Abu Dhabi, securing $5.1 billion in debt financing for a solar and battery complex designed to supply clean electricity around the clock. The Abu Dhabi-based clean energy company will provide $1 billion in equity for the development, which is being undertaken with Emirates Water and Electricity Company. A consortium of 13 local and international […]
Greenlogue/AP Masdar has broken ground on a 1GW wind farm in Kazakhstan’s Zhambyl region, marking its first renewable energy development in the country and a major step in Abu Dhabi’s push to build round-the-clock clean power platforms across Central Asia. The $1.4 billion project combines utility-scale wind generation with a 600MWh battery energy storage system designed to support grid stability in southern Kazakhstan. The development is being […]
Greenlogue/AP Masdar City has opened Biosphere Labs in Abu Dhabi, establishing what is being positioned as the GCC’s first commercially scaled shared laboratory for researchers, start-ups and biotechnology companies seeking faster access to life-sciences infrastructure. The facility has been developed with M42 and Attentive Science and was announced on the sidelines of the BIO International Convention 2026 in San Diego. It is designed to address a persistent […]
Abu Dhabi’s L’IMAD Holding has deepened its grip on TAQA after its subsidiary Abu Dhabi Power Corporation bought a further 8.09 per cent stake in the listed power and water utility, lifting its holding to 98.12 per cent. The transaction, disclosed on Wednesday, involved the acquisition of 9.1 billion TAQA shares from Two Point Zero Group. Based on TAQA’s closing share price that day, the stake was […]
Greenlogue/AP UAE officials used the World Hydrogen Summit & Exhibition in Rotterdam to reinforce the country’s ambition to become a global hub for low-emission hydrogen, placing cross-border trade, common standards and industrial decarbonisation at the centre of its energy transition agenda. The Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure represented the UAE at the gathering in the Netherlands, where governments, technology developers, financiers and energy companies examined the commercial […]
Masdar has signed an agreement with China’s Sungrow to supply battery energy storage and photovoltaic inverter systems for Abu Dhabi’s round-the-clock renewable energy project, strengthening the supply chain behind one of the world’s most ambitious attempts to make solar power available as firm baseload electricity. The agreement covers 7.5 gigawatt-hours of Sungrow’s PowerTitan 3.0 battery energy storage systems and 2.6 gigawatts of PV inverter solutions. The equipment […]
Arabian Post Staff -Dubai Abu Dhabi’s exit from OPEC has placed the UAE at the centre of a wider debate over how Gulf producers should manage oil wealth as long-term demand faces pressure from the energy transition. Anwar Gargash, diplomatic adviser to President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, said the decision was shaped over three years and reflected the leadership’s view that the world is approaching […]
Arabian Post Staff -Dubai Abu Dhabi’s push to build a new crude pipeline bypassing the Strait of Hormuz has reached the halfway mark, with ADNOC chief executive Sultan Al Jaber saying the project is being accelerated towards a 2027 launch as regional tensions continue to expose the vulnerability of Gulf energy routes. Al Jaber said the pipeline, intended to expand export capacity through Fujairah on the Gulf […]
Arabian Post Staff -Dubai Mubadala Investment Company has taken a significant minority stake in Power Factors, deepening Abu Dhabi’s exposure to the software layer of the global renewable energy industry as operators confront larger, more complex and increasingly hybrid clean-power portfolios. The transaction brings Mubadala alongside Vista Equity Partners, the existing investor in Power Factors, and positions the Abu Dhabi-based global investor behind a company whose systems […]
Arabian Post Staff -Dubai Masdar and Montenegro’s state power utility Elektroprivreda Crne Gore have agreed to create a 50-50 joint venture to develop large-scale renewable energy projects, giving the Adriatic country a fresh route to expand domestic generation, strengthen energy security and position itself as a supplier of cleaner electricity to neighbouring markets in the Balkans and southern Europe. The agreement was signed on 22 April […]
Greenlogue/AP Solar power capacity across the Gulf Cooperation Council has expanded at an exceptional rate, with a new GCC-Stat report showing average annual growth of 88.1 per cent between 2013 and 2024, underscoring how one of the world’s leading hydrocarbon-producing regions is accelerating investment in cleaner energy while also strengthening climate resilience measures. The same report said electricity generated from solar energy climbed from 0.13 thousand gigawatt-hours […]
