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UASC Registers a Net Loss of Over $30mn in 1986

The Kuwaiti-based Arab joint-venture firm, the United Arab Shipping Company (UASC), registered a net loss in 1986 of KD 8.9mn ($30.4mn at the 1986 year-end exchange rate of 1KD = $3.42) compared to KDl.96mn ($6.7mn) in 1985, according to a statement by the company's Director General, Mr. 'Abd al-'Aziz Sallat. UASC, the Arab world's largest shipping concern established in 1976, is capitalized at KD500mn and owned 19.3%...