Prabha Shankar

ALT Branded grouped horizontal bar chart on cream. The growth map is moving east. Share of automotive executives naming each region among their top three growth regions, today (2026) versus by 2030: South Asia 24% and 45%; Southeast Asia 31% and 44%; Western Europe 44% and 26%. All bars use the same scale. Survey: 720 executives across 33 countries, March–April 2026. These are respondents’ expectations, not forecasts of market size. A growth signal is not an entry strategy. Source: PwC, Global Automotive Outlook 2026, 24 September 2026; accessed 8 November 2026. Fractionova is not affiliated with PwC. fractionova.com.

ALT Branded card on a cream background under the label 'Data centres and the Gulf', headline 'Speed beats cost.' Subtitle: an Emirati data centre's lifecycle value against the US level, in a model cited by MEI. A pale panel labelled 'Baseline (no war)' reads plus 3.5% above the US level; an arrow leads to a navy panel labelled 'Short-war scenario' reading about 1.7% below the US level. Three tags list the scenario: six-month delay; 10% higher non-IT build cost; war insurance at 0.5% of capital expenditure a year. Text: 'In the model, speed of delivery is the decisive variable', beside a simple clock line drawing. Source: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, The Compute Coalition, 8 June 2026; cited in Middle East Institute, The Middle East Beyond the Iran War, September 2026. Fractionova is not affiliated with either organisation. Fractionova logo and fractionova.com.

ALT Branded chart on a navy background titled 'When the strait closed, the trade moved.' under the label 'Trade and the Gulf'. It shows container throughput in the first half of 2026, change on a year earlier, as horizontal bars from a zero line: Jebel Ali (UAE, inside the strait) about minus 60%; Salalah (Oman) plus 15%; Sohar (Oman) about plus 40%; Jeddah South Container Terminal (Saudi Arabia, Red Sea) almost plus 79%. A large figure reads 500,000 TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units) moved across the Gulf region by road and rail, March to August 2026. Source: WTO, Global Trade Outlook and Statistics, update: October 2026, page 25 and Chart 18 (port data: DP World; Sohar Port and Freezone; Port of Salalah). Fractionova is not affiliated with the WTO. Fractionova logo and fractionova.com.

ALT Slide titled Built here, shipped out. Large figure: about 95% of engines and gearboxes made at Hosur are exported. Cards: exports to about 50 countries; 90% localisation target.

ALT Closing slide titled Read the roadmap, not the headline, with a button reading Start a Decision, fractionova.com.

ALT Cream cover slide. Headline: Twelve launches in three years. Large figure: ₹4,000 crore fresh investment over the next three years, stated in the release as about €400 million.

ALT Slide titled A deeper India commitment. Bar chart of cumulative investment in India: more than ₹11,000 crore to date, about ₹15,000 crore by 2030.

ALT Slide titled Seven new, five upgraded. Cards: first launch by Q2 2027; segments B, C and D SUVs, an MPV, an A-segment car and a premium pickup; powertrains ICE, hybrid, plug-in hybrid and battery electric.

ALT Slide titled Three plants, two states. A teal line drawing of peninsular India marks Ranjangaon in Maharashtra, and Hosur and Thiruvallur in Tamil Nadu, with an India flag. Note: indicative locations, not to scale.

ALT Slide 5 of 7. Heading: Pick the commitment, not the trend. Four questions: where production, inventory and contracting should sit; which corridors to build now; where a cooling, power or component capability fits data-centre projects; whether a sovereign-backed programme could be a customer or partner.

ALT Slide 6 of 7. Heading: Follow the flows, then test them. Cards: the AI engine follows commercial and physical flows; principal-led review tests each advantage against the real arrangement; Hormuz means supply routes need today's evidence.

ALT Slide 7 of 7. Heading: Bring Fractionova the decision. Full perspective at fractionova.com/insights/uae-new-trade-order. Button: Start a Decision at fractionova.com. Contact [email protected].

ALT Slide 3 of 7. Heading: Three connectors, no bloc. Three cards, each led by a large national flag (UAE, India, Singapore): the UAE was among the top five greenfield investment recipients in 2024; US imports from India rose 94% from 2014 to 2024; Singapore is sixth in DMCC's Commodity Trade Index with 41%.

ALT Slide 4 of 7. Heading: Second place, despite Hormuz. A faint line drawing of a cargo ship passing through a narrow strait. Bars of DMCC Commodity Trade Index 2026 scores with flags: United States 57%, UAE 47% (second), Netherlands 47%, Switzerland 44%, Hong Kong 43%, Singapore 41%. The Hormuz closure weighed on UAE petroleum exports; shipping remained severely restricted in late October 2026.

ALT Slide 1 of 7. Heading: The middle is a position. 4% of trade leaders surveyed by DMCC expect the best case for global trade.

ALT Slide 2 of 7. Heading: Few bet on the best case. Bars of DMCC survey scenarios for the next one to three years: best case 4%, baseline more than 80%, worst case almost 12%.

ALT Branded waterfall chart: India’s exports to Spain rose from US$3.03bn (Apr–Nov 2024) to US$4.68bn (Apr–Nov 2025); petroleum products (HS 2710) added over US$1.2bn and all other products under US$0.44bn (derived). Cards: Italy US$3.92bn, +29.9%, mineral fuels +US$517m (Apr–Jul comparison); Japan US$3.43bn, +43%, mineral fuels +US$231.7m (+76%).