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The beginning of the Cargo Village in Dubai

With this world-class status of the Emirate of Dubai, it has become important to establish customs centers inside Dubai, including the Cargo Village in Dubai, which is owned by the Dubai Civil Aviation Department and is located approximately 40 km from Jebel Ali. Initially, Dubai Cargo Village was built in 1991, and it was designed to handle 150,000 tons of cargo annually, as it was built on an area of ​​300,000 square meters, at a cost of $75 million so that it could accommodate the steady growth in air freight and sea freight, as well as facilitate shipping operations Between the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, the Far East, and Europe.

Within only a few years of the establishment of the Dubai Cargo Village, and as the shipping activity in the village greatly exceeded the available capacity, which led to an increase in the need to expand the area of ​​the Cargo Village so that it could accommodate the rapidly increasing demand for freight, as the increased demand for freight operations resulted from several Combined factors, namely (the great growth of the Emirate of Dubai, with the expansion of Emirati air traffic, as well as the great demand for the method of transport and air freight, and finally the presence of the United Arab Emirates in an important central place on the world map).

Therefore, work has been done to expand the cargo village so that it can accommodate and ship 2.7 million tons of cargo and handle 25,279 cargo aircraft annually, and that restructuring was completed in January of 2008, and the cargo village in Dubai has become one of the most technologically advanced cargo handling facilities. In January 2008.

The Cargo Village was ranked as the eighth busiest air freight terminal in the world and was distinguished by the presence of a courier center, administrative office and agent facilities, a multi-story car park, an elevated road, a new central service, a mosque, and other facilities.

Technological development in the Cargo Village

With the interest in technological development and equipping the village with the latest smart technologies for smart information technology and artificial intelligence, keeping pace with that, the work of rehabilitating the human element with many advanced courses on how to deal with modern technological equipment, and stimulating their abilities in creativity and innovation by launching new ideas and turning them into actual innovations that improve efficiency Customs work, all this made the shipping village play an important role during the Corona pandemic, as it contributed to the provision of various transport and shipping services, and the completion of customs transactions remotely in light of precautionary measures, especially with the transformations witnessed by the global trade movement with the large increase in e-commerce deals regionally. and internationally.

Increasing customs transactions in Dubai Cargo Village

All this technical progress helped increase the number of customs transactions through the Cargo Village Center in Dubai, where 6.2 million customs transactions were completed during 2019, in addition to the Dubai Cargo Village’s acquisition of more than 40% of the volume of air freight business in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, as it is a focal point of operations between Europe and America on the one hand and Asia on the other, and the number of airlines that have offices in the village has reached 40, in addition to 120 air freight companies, with whom the customs center in Dubai Cargo Village adopts a policy of flexibility in dealing with These companies, by providing them with high-quality facilities and services.

Contribution of the Dubai Cargo Village to the protection of society Not only this but also the provision of customs centers, including the Dubai Cargo Village Center, with smart devices capable of reaching the best results in the inspection. This led to the growing role of the customs center in the shipping village in protecting the community.