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With COP28 due to take place in Dubai in under a year sustainability is in the spotlight. Elsewhere oil and gas, plus prestige mixed use builds, continue to generate demand for lifting and moving services. Christian Shelton reports.


Post-covid there is a feeling of positivity being projected by many crane rental agencies in the United Arab Emirates. According to Martin Kirby, managing director of Dubai-based crane rental


Expo City Dubai will host COP28


agency Johnson Arabia, the region is seeing the positive effect of the government’s policies and reforms post-Covid designed to keep it a hub for business. “These include the transformation of


the Dubai Expo2020 site to a new city called District 2020 and re-strategizing projects that were on hold to complete them,” he says. “To enhance our services we have retired some of our older


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