Dubai Export Development Corporation (EDC) and the International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC) jointly hosted a trade information sharing workshop for UAE businesses at the end of January.
Following the success of a training session, also collaborated by EDC and ITFC, on export strategies and international marketing held last year in Egypt, this workshop – held in Raffles Dubai – was intended to provide valuable knowledge and trade information to more than 20 companies and enterprises from various sectors in the trade industry.
Commenting on the workshop, engineer Saed Al Awadi, CEO of EDC said: "With the growing number of opportunities for trade on a regional and global scale, there is a corresponding need for competent traders and enterprises in the industry. This information sharing workshop aims to create a collective pool of information, knowledge and ideas that will encourage new traders to set higher goals, and give them the confidence to achieve those goals."
The workshop attracted experts from the industry who are specialists in providing trade information, as well as heads of research and development teams.
Topics covered during the three-day workshop included identifying ways in which trade can be developed on a global scale, and the role that information provided plays in facilitating and developing trade.
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