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Malta Enterprise supporting Maltese companies in the UAE
The Malta Enterprise Office in Dubai hosted a number of individual trade missions in the past months, as various Maltese enterprises sought to learn more about the opportunities available in the United Arab Emirates.
The companies operate in sectors ranging from consultancy, service providers in the oil and gas industry, as well as designers and suppliers of medical gas engineering projects.
Some of these companies have been active in other North African markets and are looking towards the Middle East with a renewed interest as a means of expanding their business into foreign markets, with Malta Enterprise facilitating this process as part of its assistance towards internationalisation.
Over the past months, the Malta Enterprise Office in Dubai identified some potential partners in the UAE and sett up over 200 one-to-one meetings, with the scope of boosting commercial cooperation and business exchange between companies operating in the two markets.
Malta Enterprise also assisted the companies by providing information on potential commercial partnerships and aiding them to understand the regulatory environment of the UAE, which was crucial for the participants to ensure the individual trade missions were highly successful.
One of the Maltese entrepreneurs assisted in this manner explained that he reverted to Malta Enterprise to seek new markets after facing difficulty in sustaining turnover and also keeping the workforce when working in Libya due to the political scenario, adding that the Middle East was a logical choice due to certain similarities in the culture, language and other environmental factors.
“Malta Enterprise is there to support the Maltese industry and with our satellite offices or regional leaders such as the one in Dubai we could offer a service on the ground. We are experiencing this today with a large number of Maltese companies that were active in North Africa and today are seeking new markets,” said Kevin Chircop, Head of the Trade and Investment Promotion Unit at Malta Enterprise.
The Malta Enterprise Office in Dubai was established in 2003 with the prime objective of supporting commercial relations between Malta and the Gulf States, thereby strengthening trade, socio economic and cultural relations.
Further information on doing business in the Middle East can be obtained by sending an email to [email protected]
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Whilst this is very gratifying to have Maltese Companies interesting in establishing bases in the UAE this will hardly do anything for jobs in Malta itself.
What we need is a fully engaged workforce in Malta and fully employed with good salaries. Ths is the sort of thing that it was hoped that the pharmaceutical industries were going to do but didnot. This was hopefully going to be the case at the other industrial venures brought into Malta but have not. There is though good news here for the long-awaited Malta based biofuels project which has been promoted in Malta for nearly two years (so we hear from Malta Enterprise and the Government) is about to start. This proposal as most of the readers to Malta Today and the Malta Independent and Times was announced earlier this year by Bloomberg Press which was repeated elsewhere in Malta and the News.
Now we hear that the project has been given a date to start development the long awaited news about its intention to employ over 140 permanent staff with technical and Engineering skills which are the back-bone of Malta's long history is even better news. We understand that the Company is looking to totally fill its jobs needed from within Malta and as such will look to this sector for skilled and apprentices from this Engineering field. This looks to be a good opportunity for Malta and for the real impetus to expand the knowledge base here and hopefully improve workers salaries as a result.
It is therefore good to hear that Malta Enterprise has aided the advance move by this British/Israeli Company (Applied Biofuels) to Malta for what we have always said here is that we have all the manufacturing skills available for such enterpreneural organisations and if they come here as Applied Biofuels has said they would and as Malta Enterprise has confirmed then the future looks bright for Malta.
Let's therefore welcome the input to the Government and its Agency Malta Enterprise to bringing Applied Biofuels and its developments here to Malta. Let us also have its future developments here also for that is what was written in the Bloomberg statements. We need this in Malta and it will be wonderful for the workers here.
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Whilst this is very gratifying to have Maltese Companies interesting in establishing bases in the UAE this will hardly do anything for jobs in Malta itself.
What we need is a fully engaged workforce in Malta and fully employed with good salaries. Ths is the sort of thing that it was hoped that the pharmaceutical industries were going to do but didnot. This was hopefully going to be the case at the other industrial venures brought into Malta but have not. There is though good news here for the long-awaited Malta based biofuels project which has been promoted in Malta for nearly two years (so we hear from Malta Enterprise and the Government) is about to start. This proposal as most of the readers to Malta Today and the Malta Independent and Times was announced earlier this year by Bloomberg Press which was repeated elsewhere in Malta and the News.
Now we hear that the project has been given a date to start development the long awaited news about its intention to employ over 140 permanent staff with technical and Engineering skills which are the back-bone of Malta's long history is even better news. We understand that the Company is looking to totally fill its jobs needed from within Malta and as such will look to this sector for skilled and apprentices from this Engineering field. This looks to be a good opportunity for Malta and for the real impetus to expand the knowledge base here and hopefully improve workers salaries as a result.
It is therefore good to hear that Malta Enterprise has aided the advance move by this British/Israeli Company (Applied Biofuels) to Malta for what we have always said here is that we have all the manufacturing skills available for such enterpreneural organisations and if they come here as Applied Biofuels has said they would and as Malta Enterprise has confirmed then the future looks bright for Malta.
Let's therefore welcome the input to the Government and its Agency Malta Enterprise to bringing Applied Biofuels and its developments here to Malta. Let us also have its future developments here also for that is what was written in the Bloomberg statements. We need this in Malta and it will be wonderful for the workers here.
