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)
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• 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