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Retail Dhs475.85 million (US$ 130.37 million) and accounted for 6.47% contribution.   Sales in Departures rose by 6.12% to Dhs6.499 billion (US$1.78 billion) over the previous year and accounted for 88.35% of total 2018 sales. The operation has also recorded a total of 25,507,998 sales transactions for the year with 68,755,388 pieces of merchandise sold.   In addition to remarkable sales revenue, 2018 provided Dubai Duty Free with major milestones in terms of growth and expansion including the refurbishment of Concourse C, enhancements to the fashion offer in Concourse B and the opening of a retail shop in Queen Elizabeth 2, the first floating hotel located in Port Rashid.    Looking ahead, Dubai Duty Free will continue to enhance its retail operation in 2019 while maintaining a busy events and promotional calendar, which includes the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships, commencing on February 17 to March 2, 2019 at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Stadium.  Daimler Trucks invests half a billion Euros in highly automated trucks World premiere of the new Freightliner Cascadia with partially automated driving features (level 2) 42 | JANUARY 2019 • Start of series development of highly automated driving (level 4), enabling automated driving mode on specific routes without required user intervention • Increasing safety, boosting transportation performance and significantly cutting costs per mile • New R&D center for automated trucks fosters knowledge transfer for accelerated speed of innovation M artin Daum: “As a leader of our industry, we’ve been pioneering automated trucking. In 2015, our Freightliner Inspiration Truck got the first road license ever for an automated commercial vehicle. Now we take automated trucking to the next level: we’re ready to launch the first partially automated new Freightliner Cascadia in 2019 – and next, we tackle highly automated trucks. Highly automated trucks will improve safety, boost the performance of logistics and offer a great value proposition to our customers – and thus contribute considerably to a sustainable future of transportation.” Stuttgart / Las Vegas. Today at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Daimler Trucks announced that it will invest EUR 500 million (around 570 million USD) over the next years and create more than 200 new jobs in its global push to bring highly automated trucks (SAE level 4) to the road within a decade. Highly automated driving is characterized as automated travel in defined areas and between defined hubs