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bne:TMT Russian e-commerce
operators drive warehousing demand as retail is transformed
Russia’s booming e-commerce sector could account for 25% of warehouse space leases in 2019, Vedomosti reported on February 5.
Leading retail operator Ozon has leased 94,000sqm of new ware- house space in Moscow, with the option to increase it to 122,000sqm, the paper reported. The paper also cites sources saying that internet powerhouse Yandex.Market is in talks to lease up to 80,000sqm.
Russian e-commerce is eating into traditional retail sales and nine out ten Russians have now bought something online in the last decade. Increasingly e-commerce firms are investing into logistical support for their burgeoning businesses.
“Logistics capabilities are the backbone of retail, and large-scale leases by e-commerce operators point to a new wave of sector transformation,” VTB Capital (VTBC) said in a note.
Turkey is to form its first official space agency. Scientists have welcomed the move given the green light by the signing of an executive order by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, hoping it will reduce Turkey’s brain drain even as they wonder about the feasibility of its ambitious goals, Scientific American reported on February 5.
The agency is expected to develop technologies for rocket launches and space exploration, as well as to coordinate the space-related activities of the country’s other space-research centres, according to the order.
“The judicial details of the agency are still being sorted out,” Mustafa Varank, the Minister of Industry and Technology, reportedly said during a recent speech at the National Space Workshop held in Gebze, Turkey.
Doctors at Kazakhstan’s National Research Center for Cardiac Sur- gery have successfully implanted a mechanical heart pump charged wirelessly by a device based on the technology of Israeli company Leviticus Cardio, the company said in a statement on February 6.
VADs are annually surgically implanted into thousands of patients with severe heart failure in lieu of heart transplants. As such, VADs are continuously connected to a power source, requiring patients to deal with the discomfort of a wire coming out of their bodies as well as facing a 20% risk of contracting infections. The new technol-
ogy developed by Leviticus Cardio removes the need to connect the VADs to wires.
Turkey to form first official space agency
Kazakh doctors successfully implant heart pump with wireless charging