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DUBAI MARITIME CITY
This time, instead of talking about a specific company that supplies services to superyachts, we intend to talk about the world's biggest hub dedicated to the care of vessels, be they merchant ships, pleasure craft or military. We're talking about Dubai Maritime City, a project under way which will make the Arab Emirate city a point of reference for owners and shipping companies. The project is developed over an area of more than 2.27 million square metres, situated between Port Rashid and the Dubai dry docks.
The infrastructures now being built include roads, goods transport systems, five office tower blocks, a crew club, large shopping areas, hotels and service flats, business and services centres, waterfront offices for shipping companies, port offices, a port service flat complex, parks and open spaces and access to the seafront promenade. When we add the vocational training centres for ship's personnel and the presence of every kind of service for vessels, crews, passengers and goods in transit, it becomes clear that Dubai Maritime City is really an example of thinking big, like everything else that is springing up in the area.
Further information is available on website www.dubaimaritimecity.ae or may be requested by emailing info@dubaimaritimecity.ae or by writing to Dubai Maritime City; PO Box 17000; Dubai UAE; tel. +9714 3455545; fax +9714 3452234. |
Divided into various zones, Dubai Maritime City also
includes shipyards with direct access to the sea, moorings for
cargo and passenger vessels of all sizes, dry and floating docks
for intervention on any type of hull, and technical assistance
services for both merchant vessels and large yachts. There are
suppliers of all possible technical materials that might be
required during interventions, plus a goods and container handling
system based on modern criteria that ensure rapid checking and
management of all movements.
An actual hub for the convergence of
vessels from all over the world, cargoes to be forwarded elsewhere
and vessels in need of maintenance or repair. Not to mention crews
who see Dubai as the ideal base port for the winter months: if
they are joined by their families they can count on comfort and
services of every kind. A real maritime complex where companies
from all over the world specialised in maritime services of every
nature will shortly be operating, and where any vessel in transit
will find her needs satisfied. The owner may even consider the
idea of making Dubai her home port.
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