Sharjah’s tourism resort business had a busy start to 2014, with 180,000 tourists registering at beach hotels and resorts during the first half of the year. According to the Sharjah Commerce and Tourism Development Authority (SCTDA), beach hotels enjoyed a record 80% average occupancy during the period January to June 2014. Sharjah views tourism as a strategic pillar of the ...

Sharjah International Airport passenger traffic soared in the second quarter of 2014 as the airport added more than 200 flights over May, June and early July as a result of runway repair works taking place at the nearby Dubai airport. Sharjah handled 2.6 million passengers in the second quarter, being 20 percent more than during the same period in 2013, ...

Khorfakkan Container Terminal (KCT) has welcomed the ship CSCL Mercury, the first vessel on the new China Shipping Container Lines / United Arab Shipping enhanced AEX7 joint service, which links leading ports across Asia and Northern Europe via Sharjah’s Khorfakkan Port. China Shipping Container Lines Co. Ltd (CSCL) is China’s second largest container shipping liner and the seventh largest global ...