Over the last two decades the West African country of Ghana has successfully evolved into a stable and mature democracy. Hand-in-hand with this development has been the emergence of its blossoming economy, one that continues to grow ahead of the average for the African region, with GDP growth registered at 15 percent in 2011 and 7.9 percent in 2012.

Ever since it was founded in 1989, DRS have worked tirelessly to forge a level of trust between itself and its customers based on a combination of experience, technical capacity and reliability. From its headquarters in Santiago, Chile, the company delivers comprehensive building projects services and works that enables it to successfully manage a project from its initial design stages right through to commissioning.

The Alps are Europe’s great natural boundary, cutting Italy off from the rest of the continent. Getting from one side to the other whether for purposes of travel, war or trade has been a headache ever since ‘the iceman’ Ötzi lost his life 5,000 years ago on the Fineilspitze, not 20 miles to the east of the Brenner pass.

How many times have you heard organisations make the declaration, “Our people are our greatest asset.”?

On December 24, 2013 during MSC’s weekly service to Colombo from KPCT, its vessel MV MSC SIERRRA-II became part of an historic moment when 641 TEUs were exchanged with the vessel, with a record hourly crane productivity of 48.6 containers and a berth productivity of 96.64 containers per hour. Two super post-panamax quay cranes, were used by the terminal in order to achieve its most efficient crane productivity. Not only was this Krishnapatnam Port’s best crane performance at KPCT to date, but also one of the highest achieved by any container terminal in India.

The agreement ends long negotiations with the current owners, Veba, the healthcare trust affiliated to the United Auto Workers' union (UAW). The deal will see Chrysler and Fiat pay the trust an initial $3.65 billion. Once the deal is signed off, Chrysler will then pay Fiat another $700 million.

Peru's government plans to sell up to 49 percent of state-owned oil Petroleos del Peru SA (Petroperu) to investors in a bid to secure private sector funding. At the same time part of the company, at least five percent, must be floated on the Lima Stock Exchange, though no date has been set for the IPO.

According to a new report Cleantech Redefined: Why the Next Wave of Cleantech Infrastructure, Technology and Services Will Thrive in the 21st Century, by research firm Kachan and non-profits As You Sow and the Responsible Endowments Coalition, the second most popular retail investment during 2013, after property, was in clean energy; a quarter of all venture capital in 2012 went into clean technologies; and in the third quarter of 2013 venture capital deals for clean tech were 64 percent higher than in the first quarter, clear sign of an upturn.