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WORKSHOP 28 / P-ZONE IS IN ZONE Pirelli introduces its premium P-Zone retail brand in the region. ENGINES 30 34 30 / DIESEL DREAMS Volvo’s engine expert Dr Staffan Lundgren on new and cleaner concepts for the diesel engine. EVENTS 34 / CRAZY CONCEPTS Hyundai introduces an exciting new vision for the car at this year’s CES 2019. FEBRUARY 2019 TRUCK&FLEET ME 01 01_Contents.indd 1 1/30/19 5:47 PM WELCOME GROUP MANAGING DIRECTOR RAZ ISLAM [email protected] +971 4 375 5483 EDITORIAL DIRECTOR VIJAYA CHERIAN [email protected] +971 4 375 5472 EDITORIAL EDITOR STEPHEN WHITE [email protected] +44 7541 244 377 SUB EDITOR AELRED DOYLE [email protected] ADVERTISING SENIOR SALES MANAGER BIPIN SONEJI IF YOU CANT [email protected] +971 4 433 2856 BEAT THEM, THEN DESIGN ART DIRECTOR SIMON COBON WHY NOT DARE TO [email protected] DESIGNER PERCIVAL MANALAYSAY [email protected] BE DIFFERENT? PHOTOGRAPHY How is your 2019 panning out so far? I am hoping that you’ve started the year MAKSYM PORIECHKIN flying and you are wondering if you will ever get time to have another holiday [email protected] before the decade comes to a close (seriously, is it really the 2020s in less than MARKETING 11 months?) But what if it’s not? What if the year seems to be harder than the MARKETING MANAGER SHEENA SAPSFORD [email protected] last and that holiday is looking increasingly difficult to justify? +971 4 375 5498 Well, if you can’t free yourself from your desk, why not take a little bit of CIRCULATION & PRODUCTION advice from Albert Einstein and (I’m paraphrasing here) who said that if he had PRODUCTION MANAGER VIPIN V. VIJAY an hour to fix a problem he would spend 55 minutes thinking and the final five [email protected] solving his conundrum. +971 4 375 5713 As difficult as it can be sometimes, there is every chance you would be better DISTRIBUTION MANAGER PHINSON MATHEW GEORGE off taking the foot off the pedal sometimes and coming at the daily problems [email protected] of organising your fleet and beating the competition to the next contract by +971 4 375 5476 allowing yourself the chance to sit back … and simply think. The problem is, how WEB DEVELOPMENT often do you get the chance to do that? Plus, we live in a culture where ‘doing MOHAMMAD AWAIS SADIQ SIDDIQUI nothing’ is almost worse than doing something badly. Especially in this business. You only have to take a stroll through our airport terminals to see the number of FINANCE ACCOUNTS NAHEED HOOD self-help and motivational books to see where we are in the region. This is a place [email protected] where every spare minute needs to be filled. If you’re not at work, you better be +971 4 375 5474 learning how to be better at it – or you may get left behind. CREDIT CONTROL EXECUTIVE CAMERON CARDOZO [email protected] This month, we hop over to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. +971 4 375 5499 Off the beaten track it may be, but you only have to look at Hyundai’s Elevate FOUNDER UMV to see what is possible when you allow your mind to venture into the DOMINIC DE SOUSA (1959-2015) left-field. So let’s make a collective resolution for February and try to break PRINTED BY from the norm, get off the hamster wheel and dare to be different. Who knows, PRINTWELL PRINTING PRESS LLC by allowing our imaginations to run wild – even for an hour – we may find that little bit of inspiration we need. As Einstein put it: “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.” Licensed by TECOM to registered company, CPI Trade Publishing FZ LLC whose registered office is 207 – 209, Building 3, Dubai Studio City, Dubai, UAE. www.cpitrademedia.com The publishers regret that they cannot accept liability for error or omissions contained in this publication, however caused. The opinions and views contained in this publication are not necessarily those of the publishers. Readers are advised to seek specialist advice before acting on information STEPHEN WHITE contained in this publication, which is provided for general use and may not be appropriate for the reader’s particular circumstances. The ownership of EDITOR, TRUCK&FLEET ME trademarks is acknowledged. No part of this publication or any part of the contents thereof may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted [email protected] in any form without the permission of the publishers in writing. 02 TRUCK&FLEET ME FEBRUARY 2019 02_Eds Letter.indd 2 1/31/19 5:41 PM 02_Eds Letter.indd 3 1/31/19 5:41 PM ONLINE MOST POPULAR feATURed ReAdeRS’ COMMeNTS CONSULTANT Red SeA MeGAPROjeCT ADFD global sustainable/ GeTS APPROVAL fROM renewable energy BOARd Of dIReCTORS investments total $1.18bn In reference to the ‘Red Sea megaproject gets approval from board of directors’ article on your website, we’ve seen many conflicting sides to the ‘new’ Saudi Arabia over the past fLeeT couple of years that Abu Dhabi’s Hyperloop to cost it can sometimes be $20-$40 mn per kilometre unclear which vision of its future self we should believe. I am, however, looking to the Kingdom Interview: The BIM differentiator to lead the next phase with ellisdon’s Wissam Hijazi of construction in the region, especially once the Expo 2020 Dubai CONSTRUCTION building is complete. Saipem wins contracts worth Saudi’s current $1.3bn from Saudi Aramco willingness to embrace leisure and tourism, as well as trade, should be welcomed by all of us in the industry. While the ambition and scale is exciting, the test will be whether those CONSTRUCTION at the top are willing Saudi awards ‘sizeable’ EPC deal to McDermott to be transparent and open enough to get the international support they need to make their mega-projects sustainable. If they are, then the region’s construction industry can CONSULTANT afford to be much more Woods Bagot’s Testolini: positive about the future. Dubai well-placed to realise Video: BPMe Contractors vs. Consultants Golf day 2018 smart city vision Name withheld by request 04 TRUCK&FLEET ME FEBRUARY 2019 04_MECN.indd 4 1/30/19 5:52 PM 04_MECN.indd 5 1/30/19 5:52 PM NETWORK AGILITY NEW HUB IN BAHRAIN / ECO-BUS JOINS ABU DHABI ROUTES / HYPERLOOP TT ELECTRIC ABRA TESTING ON THE DUBAI CREEK / PIONEER CEMENT GETS GREENER NETWORK Agility opens new Bahrain hub FIRM ADDS BAHRAIN TO ITS LIST OF KEY OPERATIONAL MARKETS IN THE MIDDLE EAST LOGISTICS Agility, which describes logistics services, our is undergoing rapid Agility has opened a itself as a leading investment in Bahrain economic transformation 28,500sqm facility in the provider of cross-border will help us better serve and continuing to attract Hidd district of Bahrain “to transportation, owning customers in the region. international investment, expand its warehousing, and operating a fleet The opening of our new with the logistics freight, transport and of over 200 vehicles, facility is a testament to industry playing a major specialty capabilities and facilitates customs our commitment to this role towards this. serve as a regional logistics brokerage for a number of promising market.” “The industry benefits and distribution hub.” multinational organisations The new facility, which not just from Bahrain’s According to the company, based in Bahrain. has storage capacity of strategic geographic the new facility supports “Bahrain is one of our 17,000 pallet positions, location, but also its contract logistics with key operational markets represents a $10 million growing infrastructure, ambient, chilled and in the Middle East, offering investment by Agility. It established transport frozen storage, as well as high-quality infrastructure follows expansion of the links and policies that are solutions for high-value and a diverse community company’s overland fleet conducive to fostering cargo. It will offer secure of regional business in Bahrain to support its business. The expansion records management players,” said Essa Al- regional operations. of the regional logistics and storage and turnkey Saleh, CEO of Agility Global H.E. Mr. Zayed Alzayani, and distribution hub is a logistics for Bahrain- Integrated Logistics. “With Bahrain’s Minister of natural step for Agility, based manufacturers in an expanding population Industry, Commerce and who have been steadily the fast-moving consumer in the GCC and an increase Tourism, added: “The developing their operations goods industry.