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KUWAIT - Transport
Firas Sukkar
DHL Global Forwarding, Kuwait, Country Manager
Firas Sukkar is the Country Manager of DHL Global Forwarding of Kuwait, having assumed leadership for DGF, MISNAK, AGILITY, and UPS-SCS in the MEA region. He has over 25 years of experience running multi-functional tasks that support freight forwarding, transportation, and project logistics as well as extensive experience related to operating government contracts, having worked with Kuwait customs to modernize and automate operations and procedures under multinational (WTO, WCO, and GATT) bilateral trade agreements. Sukkar has worked for over five years in Iraq from 2014-2019 as country manager of Misnak International Heavy Lifting & Move Services. Sukkar holds an MSCM from Robert Kennedy College, University of Salford.
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Technology has tremendous potential to improve operations for shippers and freight forwarders.
Firas Sukkar, Country Manager of DHL Global Forwarding, Kuwait, talks to TBY about being focused on harnessing globalization, e-commerce, digitalization, and sustainability to ensure the profitable long-term growth.
What tools and technologies is DHL Global Forwarding taking advantage of to ensure the highest quality of service?
Firas Sukkar: Technology has tremendous potential to improve operations for shippers and freight forwarders; more so during unpredictable times such as the pandemic and its subsequent recovery period. It can simplify daily business, giving logistics customers greater control over shipments. It is against this challenging climate that we are convinced that our group's strategy 2025 to focus on digitalization as one of its pillars is the right one. In early 2020, we launched myDHLi—the only fully integrated online platform for freight forwarding customers, to access online services for full shipment visibility and control on a single platform. myDHLi provides complete visibility in the management of freight rates, offers, transport modes, carbon emissions, and all other relevant shipment data. The highly intuitive interface makes it easy to use and ensures that customers have all relevant information at hand. It also features common social media functions like follow and share, and relevant information can be easily accessed across organizations and shared with trading partners. We have also fully rolled out Saloodo! our digital road freight solution platform, in the region, to inject greater transparency, real time visibility, and efficiency to the regional road network. Saloodo! enables shippers to identify trusted and reliable freight carriers, and in turn, help carriers manage existing fleets and optimize capacity with full-truckload shipments.
How does the organization strive to create such a positive employee experience?
Firas Sukkar: With our broad geographic set-up and comprehensive portfolio of logistics solutions, DHL Global Forwarding's business model is resilient, especially in the face of adversity. Our top priority has been the health and safety of our employees, ensuring that they maintain their livelihoods and continue to meet our customers' needs. Gaining new perspectives in terms of team collaboration, communication, trust, and adaptability are key. Recognizing an often-unexpressed need for emotional support, we adopted virtual engagement tools and platforms to continue connecting and communicating internally and externally. Newsletters and a Connect app on the intranet, where the DHL team can post messages, share pictures and videos, and keep in touch with coworkers, keeps morale high. These open lines of communication with our staff have proven to show higher engagement levels. Moreover, to adapt to the flexible work environment, we leveraged existing technology to maintain close contact with employees and continue to promote effective flexible work arrangements.
What is DHL Global Forwarding's perspective on Kuwait's aspirations to become a stronger logistics hub in the region?
Firas Sukkar: Kuwait has set forth several initiatives such as the New Kuwait 2035 reform program, which will help in the development of the country's logistics sector. One area would be the improvement of custom procedures, rules, and regulations that would reduce the transit time of goods and, in turn, raise the efficiency of customs. The program also seeks to improve logistics coordination and will involve the building of a single electronic platform for interaction among the various government bodies, which is in step with DHL's push for digitalization as part of its Strategy 2025. Additionally, the Kuwait Port Authorities 'Logistics Cities' Project, one of the country's largest national development projects within the logistics sector, has the potential to enhance Kuwait's connectivity, further consolidate its position as an increasingly important hub in the region and facilitate trade and investment flows. This project will invigorate job creation in Kuwait's logistics sector, a crucial pillar in Kuwait's economic diversification efforts. Kuwait's position as an attractive investment destination is being enhanced by recent investments in infrastructure, aligned with the government's New Kuwait 2035 agenda. It is for these reasons that we strongly believe in the potential of Kuwait's economy. Moving forward, DHL aims to support the government's efforts, by helping companies navigate complex border procedures, customs clearance processes, and transportation infrastructure to facilitate international trade and fuel Kuwait's economic growth.
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Many changes had happened in Khalid's life since He came to Moscow. Couple of years had passed since the last time Khalid's forehead touched his prayer rug. His mother made sure not to forget to place the most important item in his suitcase. As much as it was important to see her son succeed in life, it was not easy for her sending him off to a country far away. She believes God never forget his slaves especially the good ones. Her only request to Khalid before he left was not to forget his prayer. When packing his suitcase, she placed the prayer rug on top of his other stuffs. She thought placing her son's undergarments and shoes on top of the rug would be inappropriate.
In his first year in Moscow, Khalid used to place the rug either on his bed if he is not sleeping or on his study chair if he is not sitting on it. Somewhere he can easily spot when he wants to pray one of his five daily prayers.
After three years in Moscow, it was not just the absent of the prayer rug that you will notice if you enter his tiny one bedroom apartment. His Jordanian friend, Ahmad, was no longer his roommate. There were few pictures of him and Nadia placed on the vanity mirror and on the nightstand near his bed. They both looked so happy in these pictures. You can see different places on these pictures all taken on different occasions. There is one during his 19th birthday. Nadia is kissing him on the cheek and he is having a blast among his other friends. On another one, she is on his lap in front of a lake.
Where is Khalid's prayer rug?
Khalid like the majority of Jordanians came from a conservative Muslim family. He would never throw away his prayer rug. He thought since two sins were committed regularly in his apartment, drinking alcohol and fornication, it would be better to keep the prayer rug in his suitcase. The one he brought with him from Jordan.
Nadia was Khalid's age. They meet at a friend's house. Nadia and Khalid found in each other something missing in them. He treats her like a princess and she gives him romance. It was not just her beauty or their love that lured Khalid away from his culture and religion.
Khalid transformed from a Hamel (astray or tramp), as his father used to call him, to a Comrade. A title that made all the difference in his life and had huge effect on him.
So, how did this transformation happen?
Like any parents, Abu Khalid and Um Khalid wanted the best for their children. Although, they both did not attend universities but they learned it is very important for their children's future. Fatmeh, the eldest child, did not attend a university as well because of her low grades in Tawjihi (the General Secondary Examination). Luckily, she was able to attend a college in Irbid, 20 minutes by bus from their village.
The second child, Khalid, received 57% in his Tawjihi, a much lower score than his sister. Yet, Khalid's low score was not a big issue because he is a boy and so he can go study somewhere else outside Jordan. Back then (circa 1950 to 1990) it was more common to invest in the sons' education more than the daughters' education because boys will become the breadwinners. And daughters will marry.
The parents wanted Khalid to become an Engineer, at least that is what Um Khalid wanted more than anyone else in the family did. Her neighbor Um Abdel Baset has an Engineer son so why cannot her son be an Engineer as well. Through Abdel Baset's father connections he managed to admit his son to Damascus University, one of the oldest and toughest universities in the region. Abu Abdel Baset knows someone who knows someone in the Baath Party in Syria.
Back to Khalid's family. Khalid's grades were not enough to let him study Engineering at Damascus University nor Aleppo University. Besides, they do not have the connection Abu Abdel Bast has in Syria.
Khalid's family heard of boys going to Moscow to study. Backed by his mother, Khalid managed to confess his father that he should go to Moscow. He told his father how when he becomes an Engineer he would get a good job in Irbid with a very good salary. The father agreed although that meant selling couple of lands that were with the family for three generations.
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The struggle comes when we sense a gap between the clock and compass– when what we do doesn't contribute to what is most important in our lives.


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Q: Sum of column values via javascript I want to add single column values via javascript
when user enter quantity than the quantity multiply with the price column and shown into the 'your bill' column. The problem is that when user click on order button than all the values from 'your bill' column will add and show on the screen.
kindly tell me how can i sum all values from 'your bill column'

My view file is

<?php $i=0; foreach($result as $row){
?>

             <?php echo $row->recipe_name;?>

            <?php echo $row->quantity;?>

            <span id="priceT<?php echo $i;?>" ><?php echo $row->price;?>

            <input type="text" class="container" value="" onfocus="this.value = '';" onblur=";}" style="width: 60px" id="quantityT<?php echo $i;?>" onkeyup="CalculatePrice (<?php echo $i;?>)">

             <input type="text" class="container" value="" onfocus="this.value = '';" onblur="if (this.value == '') {this.value = '';}" style="width: 60px"id="TPrice<?php echo $i;?>">

<?php
$i++;
} ?>

and javascript code
 function CalculatePrice (id) {

        var startP = parseInt (document.getElementById ("priceT"+id).innerHTML);
        var startQ = parseInt (document.getElementById ("quantityT"+id).value);

        var Bill = 0;
        if (!isNaN ( startP)&&!isNaN(startQ))
        {var Bill = startP * startQ}

        document.getElementById ("TPrice"+id).value =  Bill;

    }

A: Add a class to the input fields of the "Your bill" column:
<input type="text" class="container row-total" value="" />

Assuming your "Order" button has id "order-btn":
<button id="order-btn">Order</button>

Use a listener and calculate the total:
document.getElementById('order-btn').addEventListener('click',function(){
    var rowTotals = document.getElementsByClassName('row-total');
    var orderTotal = 0;
    for(var i = 0; i < rowTotals.length; i++){
        orderTotal += parseFloat(rowTotals[i].value);
    }
    alert(orderTotal);
});

A jQuery alternative:
$(function(){
    $('#order-btn').click(function(){
        var orderTotal = 0;
        $('.row-total').each(function(){
                orderTotal += parseFloat($(this).val());
        });
        alert(orderTotal);
    });
});

A: I think this could works :
First set a new class to the  like...  and add a data-price to your inputs with the price (for security reasons, an user can change the value of an input text).
Then with javascript :
var order = document.getElementById('order');
var totalPrice = 0;

order.addEventListener('click', function(){
    var productsPrice = document.getElementsByClassName('product-price');
    console.log(productsPrice);
    for(var i = 0; i < productsPrice.length; i++){
        totalPrice += parseInt(productsPrice[i].dataset.price);
    }
    alert("Total = "+totalPrice);
});

I made a fiddle.
Personally I used span instead of text input for the reason I explained before.

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