UAE/TURKISH BUSINESS RELATIONS

UAE/TURKISH BUSINESS RELATIONS

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  • Dr. Nilgün Birgören
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    Abu Dhabi’s goals
    News that an Abu Dhabi-based investment fund is to take a strategic stake in Daimler will excite envy among other carmakers scrabbling for capital, along with the familiar sneers about Arab investors with more money than sense.

    But we should look closer at what the oil-rich city-state is buying. Sitting on 8 per cent of the world’s crude reserves and the senior partner in the United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi is clear if not always transparent about its ambitions.

    Like Dubai, its brasher UAE partner, Abu Dhabi does things like tourism and sports events, airlines and finance. It has some gaudy hotels, but wants also to be a film-making and media hub, and attract higher-end visitors with showpiece new Louvre and Guggenheim museums. It paid top dollar for a stake in Ferrari to reach the “added value” of a new Grand Prix slot this year on the Formula 1 circuit.

    Unlike Dubai, it has the richest sovereign wealth fund in the world, the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, as well as smaller strategic funds, including the public-private Aabar Investments, which has just bought 9.1 per cent of Daimler.

    But what makes Abu Dhabi unlike not just its sister and competitor emirates but pretty much everywhere in the Arab world is its peculiar devotion to manufacturing.

    Much of its oil wealth is being used to start industries from scratch: in cars and aerospace, components and chips. As well as Daimler, it has invested in companies such as GE, Rolls-Royce, EADS and Advanced Micro Devices. This may look quixotic, yet invariably these stakes come with local training and manufacturing commitments.

    Along with reform of local education, the goal is to use manufacturing to create skills and a culture of innovation – much more than to establish new branches of old industries. This at least tries to offer an alternative to the usual model in the Gulf – where the public sector employs the bulk of nationals – or the trading company model common in most other Arab countries.

    Some 40 years ago, the Syrian philosopher Sadek al-Azm wrote a famous critique of the mind-set underlying serial Arab defeats. Arabs, he said, have become removed from the social and economic processes that make innovation and scientific breakthroughs possible. Abu Dhabi, it seems, wants to create, not just consume.
    • 14 Apr 2009, 10:52 pm
  • Şendağ Albayrak
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    Re: Abu Dhabi’s goals
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    Şendağ Albayrak
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    • 15 Apr 2009, 05:59 am
  • Dr. Nilgün Birgören
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    Re^2: Abu Dhabi’s goals
    Sayin Şendağ Albayrak,
    Herseyden once cok gecmis olsun.
    Yazinizi, musaadenizle, sizin imzaniz ile, 'moderator araniyor' adi altinda diger bir foruma aktariyorum. Aksi halde Abu Dhabi'nin istekleri gibi algilanabilir.
    Kolay gelsin dileklerim, saygi ve sevgimle,
    Nilgun Birgoren
    • 15 Apr 2009, 3:02 pm
  • Amr Salem
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    Re^3: Abu Dhabi’s goals
    Abu Dhabi is looking for diversity, and not just depending on one commodity like Oil.
    investing in several fields and in different parts of the globe, that is a real smart move for Aabar to buy at times of recession acquiring 9.1% of Daimler becoming that partner with the biggest share but they are not the first Arabs to invest in Daimler as their neighbour Kuwait has owned a stake in it since 1974, and shareholding 6.9%.
    they were also trying to do an agreement with the State of New York with respect to it's commercial port management, that was in 2007-2008
    • 15 Apr 2009, 10:39 pm
  • Dr. Nilgün Birgören
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    Re^4: Abu Dhabi’s goals/ A new ecosystem
    Hello Amr,
    Yes, I personally think Abu Dhabi is doing a great job.

    I would like to take the opportunity to underline that the leadres of the oil-laden state/emirate have delared that petrolium belongs to the 20th century, so they are investing in the 21st century by bulding MASDAR, the world's first zero-carbom, zero-waste city, powered almost entirely by the desert's pentiful sun. ( I have previously written other articles on the issue.)

    Ground was broken last winter for the $22billion project, financed by the government of Abu Dhabi and outside investors, and slated for completion in 2016.

    While more expensive to build than a traditional city, Masdar, which will be home to 1,500 businesses, 50,000 residents, and 40,000 commuters, will use 75%less electricity and 60% less water. personal transportation pods powered by lithium batteries will replace cars, and wastewater will be routed to farms.

    Masdar in Arabic means "source", and the name was picked for a good reason I believe !!

    Here are some statistics to Masdar, which sits on the sands of Abu Dhabi, and is being built on a cement platform that is 21 feet thick and made of 60% recycled waste. By the time the project is complete - 2016 - officials hope it will have created some 70,000 jobs and become a global hub for green tech.

    Masdar Metrics:
    *construction cost of city: $22billion
    *completion date: 2016
    *area: 2,3 sq miles
    *population: 50,000 residents and 40,000 commuters
    *office space: 65 million sq feet
    *estimated temperature: 20 degrees cooler than the surrounding desert
    *resources used compared with a city of similar size: 60% less water, 75% less electricity, 98% less landfill space
    *% of energy from renewables: 100% - photo-voltaic solar: 52% - large-scale solar thermal farms: 26% - rooftop solar hot water collectors: 14% - waste-to-energy plant: 7% - wind: 1%

    *Cars are banned within city limits. Commuters will park in around garages and take light rail or electric transportation pods.
    *Solar thermal farms, which concentrate the sun's heat with mirrors to create power, will supply a quarter of the city's electricity.
    *Photovoltaic plants, which use silicon cells to turn sunlight directly into electricity, provide the city with carbon-free power.
    *The city's wastewater irrigates urban farms that grow biofuels.
    *Solar powered desalination plants provide potable water.
    *Within the city, there will be a green-tech research institute, Institute of Science and Technology, developed with the help from MIT; and the city itself will act as laboratory to test carbon-free products and prove alternative energy can be deployed on a massive scale.
    * Eight stories tall and three blocks long, Masdar's administrative headquarters will be the world's first 100%-solar-powered office building, producing, when it opens, at least 3% more energy than it consumes.

    Well, how shall we define it: a 'green city' or 'oasis' blooming in the desert ??

    Kind regards,
    Nilgun
    • 16 Apr 2009, 4:25 pm
  • Dr. Nilgün Birgören
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    Re^5: Abu Dhabi’s goals - European Energy Forum
    Dear friends and members,
    The 'European Future Energy Forum 09' will be held in Bilabao, Spain on 9 - 11 June, 2009, in association with Masdar of Abu Dhabi http://www.MasdarCity.com
    European policy
    Investment & funding
    Green buildings
    Clean transport
    Wind
    Biofuels
    Ocean power
    Geothermal
    Waste to energy
    Fuel cells
    Carbon management
    Nuclear
    Environment strategy
    Solar energy
    Hydro power
    As for now, more than 300 companies have confirmed attendance.
    To see who they are and join them, you may wish to visit http://www.EuropeanFutureEnergyForum.com
    My kind regards,
    Nilgun Birgoren
    • 20 May 2009, 10:00 pm