Singaporean Changi Airport Group has won a bid to operate Jeddah’s new King Abdulaziz Airport for the next 20 years, announced Sulaiman Al-Hamdan, transport minister and president of the General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA). “Changi Airport Group is an essential partner in our success and we hope it achieves the sought for goals,” Al-Hamdan

Finance ministers from the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) will meet in Manama, Bahrain, to discuss a unified tax system, also known as VAT. The Committee for the Financial and Economic Cooperation (Finance Ministers) of the GCC countries will hold their 106th meeting in Bahrain, according to Ahmed Al-Kaabi, a spokesman at the GCC General Secretariat.

The bilateral trade between Saudi Arabia and Taiwan has been growing year-on-year, said Mr. Joseph Chen, leader of the Taiwanese trade delegation in a meeting at Asharqia Chamber recently. Mr. Chen was leading a large 25-member delegation which was received by the Chamber’s Board Member Mr. Ghodran Syed Ghodran and Secretary General Mr. Abdulrahman A. Al Wabel.