DUBAI, U.A.E. -- 15 November 2009 -- Libyan Airlines has become a new CFM International customer with the selection of CFM56-5B engines to power seven firm, five option Airbus A320 family aircraft. The firm engine order is valued at approximately $95 million U.S. at list price and the airline is scheduled to begin taking delivery in mid-2010.
Libyan Airlines, based in Tripoli, was founded in 1964 as the national flag carrier of Libya. It operates scheduled passenger and cargo services within Libya and Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.
DUBAI, U.A.E. -- 15 November 2009 -- Tunisair has placed a $180 million order for CFM56-5B engines to power 10 firm A320 family aircraft. The airline, which also took options on two additional aircraft, is scheduled to begin taking delivery in June 2010.
"Tunisair is pleased to announce the selection of the CFM56-5B/3 engines to power its new Airbus A320 aircraft," said Nabil Chettaoui, president & CEO of Tunisair Group. "With this firm acquisition of CFM engines, Tunisair intends to fulfill the operational and economic targets we have planned for the future."
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CHALFONT ST GILES, UK, 27 AUGUST 2009 - GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), today announced that Stephen Minger, Ph.D, previously Senior Lecturer and Director of King's College London's Stem Cell Biology Laboratory, will join GE Healthcare's Life Sciences business as head of Research and Development for Cell Technologies on September 1st 2009.
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GE announced second-quarter 2009 earnings from continuing operations (attributable to GE) of $2.9 billion, or $.26 per share attributable to common shareowners, down 47% from second quarter 2008.
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Alexandria, Egypt; July 16, 2009: Egyptian Liquified Natural Gas (ELNG), Egypt's largest LNG partnership sponsored by EGAS, EGPC, BG Group, Petronas and Gaz de France, has today announced its completion of the first ever Health and Safety (H&S) Partnership Program delivered with GE Oil & Gas Global Services.
Built on ELNG and GE's strong record of health and safety performance, the H&S program has been delivered as a pilot---the first ever such project to be delivered by GE Oil & Gas at a customer site.
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Erie, Pennsylvania, USA and Cairo, Egypt (July 13, 2009) -- GE Transportation and the Egyptian National Railways (ENR) announced today that the 80th and final Evolution Series locomotive has been commissioned and was officially released to ENR at the end of June. The commissioning process prepares locomotives to be released for revenue service.
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Independent researchers conduct fuel test of GE and EMD model locomotives
Cairo, Egypt (July 8, 2009) - GE Transportation announced the results of a head-to-head fuel test in the United States between GE's Evolution® ES44AC and EMD's SD70ACe Tier 2 emissions-compliant locomotives. According to an independent research study GE's locomotives are over 6% more fuel-efficient compared to their EMD counterparts.
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A milestone in a strategically important new water supply that will help alleviate a severe water shortage in Jordan's capital and surrounding area has been reached with funding of construction of a pipeline project by GAMA Energy A.S., a joint venture between GAMA Holding A.S. and GE (NYSE:GE) unit GE Energy Financial Services. The US$1 billion Disi Water Conveyance Project includes construction of a 325-kilometer pipeline that will pump water from the Disi aquifer in Mudawarra to Jordan's most populous city, the capital of Amman.
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GE Healthcare, a global leader in healthcare solutions providing transformational medical technologies and services and the Children's Cancer Hospital Egypt (CCHE) "57357", the largest pediatric oncology center of its kind in the Middle East and Africa, will inaugurate Egypt's first new generation cyclotron production facility at an event to be held on July 7th, 2009 at CCHE.