jim bolden will explain the issue. the pain in spain. we've seen months of strikes and pro-testifies and anger over the usual suspects, unemployment, tax rises and public spending cuts. al goodman takes a look at one possible change that might give a lift to the spanish economy. >> reporter: i'm a.m. goodman in madrid where many economists say one way for spain to get out of its deep economic crisis improve worker productivity which lags behind germany and other countries. some think the unusual work schedule with a two-hour lunch break is part of the problem. spaniards get to work in the morning about the same time as other europeans. as the day wears on, the spanish work schedule gets more and more out of sync with the rest of europe, due to prolonged breaks. they work long hours but economists say that doesn't always add up to more productivity. >> i'm jim bolden in london. hundreds of thousands of public sector workers, including teachers, willing on strike on thursday. ports and are airports will also be affected. the government say

jim bolden for marketplace middle east, industrial city saudi arabia. >>> okay.to the trading week in europe, we've seen a great deal of wavering around. actually the picture hasn't changed that much in the last 20 minutes or so. very scant gains for the london ftse and scant losses for the paris acc, a loss, .5%, the chemical sector coming under pressure after reports from nobel, chemical pressure. >> sounds interesting. we had a broadly down day on the markets in asia pacific, as well. that's how the markets have ended, the trading has come to a close. only shanghai up, continuing a tailwind from those comments from the premier wen jiabao about inflation last week. >>> that's it for this edition of "world business today." i'm andrew stevens in hong kong. >> i'm charles hodson in london. join us for the next edition of "world business today" just four hours from now.

jim bolden talked with its chief executive akbar al baker. >> we've been operating since 2007 their 777ircraft is the best of its kind. we want to grow and we see that we are in need of more, and we decided to buy some more of the airplanes taking the more of 777s to around 40, so we still have another 15 to deliver. >> two years ago in an interview you were not very happy with boeing for a number of reasons. all that has been settled? >> i was very unhappy with boeing at that time, but you know that my message was taken very positively by boeing. >> they listened? >> jim is there, he's doing a fantastic job. he has resolved all of our problems. we are back on track, 787 will be delivered to us the beginning of next year. we look forward to a very good relationship ongoing. >> jim mobile, head of the commercial side. >> yes. >> did you get good discounts given the fact it's late? >> we have a contract and we have penalties and boeing is honoring the contract. >> look at airbus, you've been asking for the a350 to have more heft, a stronger, bigger engine, more lift. did you get that? >>

jim bolden reports. >> reporter: teenagers playing football, late at night here in saudi arabia to escape the heat. they attend one of the schools built for families in jubail. one day they may attend the technical colleges that are expanding here to train young saudis to find morning in this vast but remote petrol chemical city. >> we have to make things available for them. all those colleges secure their job to provide the qualified manpower. >> reporter: 36-year-old jubail is simply put like one massive company town. the skyline reveals how fast this area of factories and homes is. in more than 1,000 square kilometers or 600 square miles. but with no signature tall buildings and few tourist attractions, jubail doesn't have the flash of doha or dubai. >> i have to say, dubai is the heaven of architects. jubail is the heaven of chemical engineers. this is the largest petrol complex worldwide. >> reporter: they manufacture chemicals like propane and polyester from the kingdom's natural resources and shipping them throughout europe and asia. jubail is one of the most tangible examples of t

cnn's jim bolden spoke to the company that makes most of the black boxes, honeywell, about the lessons learned. >> we're very pleased at honeywell that the boxes have been found and lasted almost two years down at about 12,800 feet, well beyond the design life we had established them for. we're extremely pleased because 100% of the data has been recovered for the french authorities to do their analysis on what occurred. what we believe is the design engineers and what they were able to accomplish from a robustness, we're very pleased with and will help us in future investigations as well. >> assuming that the pings didn't last for two years. obviously that was the thing that would be about 28 days or 30 days, but they were found anyway. is there something that can be done that maybe now thinking about some kind of connection with the boxes for a longer period of time? >> yes. the battery in the pinging is designed around 28 days. at the depth and level there's not a lot we can do because of the atmospheric pressure and the communication links to get to those. so we're really looking at