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DP Worldموانئ دبي العالمية. DP World is an Emirati multinational logistics company based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It specialises in cargo logistics, port terminal operations, maritime services and free trade zones. Formed in 2005 by the merger of Dubai Ports Authority and Dubai Ports International, DP World handles 70 ...
Port of Jebel Ali, also known as Mina Jebel Ali, [ 4 ] is a deep port located in Jebel Ali, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Jebel Ali is the world's ninth busiest port, the largest man-made harbour, and the biggest and by far the busiest port in the Middle-East. [ 5 ] Port Jebel Ali was constructed in the late 1970s to supplement the facilities at ...
The Jebel Ali Free Zone (Jafza) is a free zone and a community. Businesses in industries such as logistics, electronics & electrical, automotive, food and agriculture, e-commerce, petrochemicals, and many more are based in Jafza. Its proximity to Jebel Ali Port, Al Maktoum International Airport, and the Expo 2020 Dubai site has helped it carry ...
Maersk Dubai incident. The Maersk Dubai incident involved four stowaways aboard the Taiwanese container ship Ming Fortune, which at the time was on long-term charter to the A.P. Moller-Maersk Group, sailing as the MV Maersk Dubai. On two consecutive voyages, in March and May 1996, three of the stowaways were murdered when they were thrown ...
The United Arab Emirates Navy ( UAEN) is the naval branch of the United Arab Emirates Armed Forces. It is small force of about 3,000 personnel. [ 1] It maintains 12 well-equipped coastal patrol boats and eight missile boats . Although primarily concerned with coastal defense, the Navy is constructing a six-unit class of blue water corvettes in ...
This is a list of the 30 largest container shipping companies as of February 2024, according to Alphaliner, ranked in order of the twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) capacity of their fleet. [1] In January 2022, MSC overtook Maersk for the container line with the largest shipping capacity for the first time since 1996. [2]
The Dubai Ports World controversy began in February 2006 and rose to prominence as a national security debate in the United States. At issue was the sale of port management businesses in six major U.S. seaports to a company based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and whether such a sale would compromise port security .
The trade totals over $75 billion (AED275.25 billion). [180] During the first half of 2010, non-oil trade between India and the UAE stood at US$20.4 billion. [181] UAE is home to more than 3 million Indian expatriates, making Indians the largest ethnic group in the nation. [182] India has an embassy in Abu Dhabi and a consulate-general in Dubai.