Editor’s Overview
From Near and Far
The past few months have been busy ones for the vertical-transportation (VT) industry in and around the Middle East. ELEVATOR WORLD reporters have been traveling in the region and beyond...
From Irrational to Rational
Following the elections in May, the whole cabinet has changed except for two ministers. The change, which was expected and followed up in suspense in terms of our sector, was...
Top-Down Problems
I put off writing my editorial this month to see if the debt-ceiling crisis would be resolved. I didn’t want to write that our (elevator) world was great if we...
Different Names, Same Issues
Some call them lifts and others call them elevators, but the issues besetting the vertical transportation (VT) industry in Europe are eerily the same as those in the U.S. and...
Talking Up the Trade
On my most recent trip to NYC, I heard several times that while the industry is short on technicians, it is now going to get a lot worse. According to...
Lifting Up and Carrying On
So much of the world watched when, on 6 May, the coronation of King Charles III took place at Westminster Abbey. The history-making event’s patriotism, pageantry and tradition captured the...
Tracking Transitions and Tallying Triumphs
The India growth story has indeed been noteworthy, and it is clearly reflected in the vertical-transportation (VT) industry’s acceleration occurring in parallel along the path to progress. Infrastructure and real...
Türkiye and Its Election
After the great earthquake disaster we experienced, the country’s agenda is almost completely focused on the elections on 14 May. Such poor management of the economy and high inflation will...
Mostly Ups
As I write this column, the economy seems to be looking mostly upward. Cities that lost population during the pandemic are gaining it back, according to the Census Bureau. Many...
A Sustainable Future
In this issue of ELEVATOR WORLD Middle East, we report on those things that sustain us as an industry and as people, including key events throughout the region, some of...
