Malta’s newly appointed Prime Minister Robert Abela has announced his cabinet following days of speculation. The new Cabinet is the largest in Maltese history.

While the international shipping community is still facing some headwinds with reduced trade volumes and freight rates near historically low levels, Malta’s shipping sector is expanding.

Malta's energy sector has been completely re-engineered. Electricity production has been shifted away from fuel oil generation towards a cheaper, cleaner, gas-powered energy matrix, which has helped persuade the private sector to invest.

Malta's vision is to transform the healthcare sector into a medical education and health tourism hub, while adding much needed extra capacity for local patients seeking high-quality medical care and health facilities.

Maltese start-ups have been successful in raising finance on global crowd-funding platforms, but the initial capital injection remains one of the top hurdles young companies. However, start-ups in Malta can find many helping hands.

Excellent facilities, year-round good weather and convenient connections to Europe’s major airports make Malta a dream destination for incentive planners and conference organisers.

MaltaProfile has compiled a comprehensive list of institutions that provide education, training and development in Malta.

The English-language teaching sector, consists of some 40 schools, including many locally founded ones, such as AM Language Studio and Easy School of Languages, as well as international players that include Education First (EF).

Malta's vision is to create a thriving blockchain economy by providing a high level of regulatory certainty to a space that thus far is mostly unregulated. The ambition is that the sector will account for 10% of GDP by 2027.

Malta’s modest cost-base and highly competitive fiscal framework are key to its success in growing the aviation sector.

Malta’s road transport sector is in the midst of a transformation as the island is seeking to upgrade and improve many facets of its infrastructure.

Malta’s transport system is undergoing a radical rethink, and the island is betting on intelligent traffic management systems and other innovations that have the potential to shake up its networks.

Malta’s success as an iGaming hub is having the knock-on effect of enticing other industries into establishing a presence of their own.

Video game developers and publishing companies, as well as gamers themselves, have relocated to the island to take advantage of business incentives and high quality of life.

With the European medical cannabis market forecast to reach a value in excess of EUR 55 billion within the next decade, Malta has been quick out of the starting blocks to position itself as the first EU Member State to provide a holistic regulatory framework for this category of rapidly emerging therapies.