Port nature: seaport, with a free trade zone, basic port (C, M)
Latitude and longitude: 25 degrees, 18 minutes N, 055 degrees, 18 minutes E
Route: the Persian Gulf
Located in the northeast of the UAE (Full name: THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES) It is located on the northeast coast of the UAE (full name: THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES), bordering the southern side of the Persian Gulf. Also known as the Port of Rashid (MINA RASHID), and with the newly built in 1981, Mina Jebel Ali Port (MINA JEBEL ALI) under the jurisdiction of the Dubai Ports Authority, is the largest port in the United Arab Emirates, is also one of the container port. The port is located at the intersection of Asia, Europe and Africa, and is the largest free trade port in the Middle East, especially known for its well-developed re-export trade. It is the ship repair center of the Gulf region, with the top-ranking million-ton dry dock. Major industries include shipbuilding, plastics, aluminum refining, desalination, steel rolling and vehicle assembly, as well as a cement plant with an annual capacity of 500,000 tons. The port has long been a commercial center on the southern shore of the Persian Gulf. It has the country's largest airport, Dubai International, with regular daily flights to all parts of the world.
The port has a tropical desert climate with prevailing west-northwest winds. The average annual temperature ranges from 20 to 30 degrees Celsius, with a maximum of 46 degrees Celsius. The average annual rainfall of about 100mm, December to February rainfall is the most, accounting for about 2/3. average tide height: high tide is 2m, low tide is 0.8m.
The port area has 18 berths of the main wharf, the shoreline length of 4,265m, the maximum water depth of 13.5m. loading and unloading equipment has a variety of shore cranes, removable cranes, container cranes, loading and unloading bridges, cross-transportation vehicles and roll-on/roll-off facilities, etc., which the maximum lifting capacity of 40 tons of container cranes. The maximum lifting capacity is 40 tons. The maximum capacity of the oil terminal is 70,000 DWT oil tankers with oil pipes connected to the tanks. The port has steel-framed transshipment shed up to 1460m long, also has a container warehouse with air-conditioning, plus the ability to receive and divert a variety of commodities, including petroleum products, perishable goods, automobiles, refrigerated goods and timber, etc. In 1994, the container throughput of 1,882,000 TEUs, an increase of 12.2% compared with 1993, and the cargo throughput of 24,150,000 tons in 1993, an increase of 12% compared with 1992. The cargo throughput in 1993 was 24.15 million tons, an increase of 12% over 1992. In order to encourage the re-export business, Dubai authorities have stipulated that all tax rebates will be given to the goods which are deposited in the warehouse in the free trade zone free of tax and re-exported (re-exported) after customs clearance. 9,694 ships were registered in the port in 1993, which is 10% more than that of 1992, among which 3,171 are container ships, which is 17% more than that of 1992, and the main exported goods include natural gas, aluminum ingots, petrochemicals and specialties, etc., except for petroleum; and imported goods mainly include grain, machinery and consumer goods. The main export cargoes are not only oil, but also natural gas, aluminum ingots, petrochemical products and local specialties, etc., while the import cargoes are mainly food, machinery and consumer goods.
Dubai (DUBAI) is a famous global commercial metropolis in the Middle East. Due to its location at the crossroads of East-West exchanges, it has often served as a center of economic activity between Europe and Asia. Today, Dubai is an important gateway not only to the Persian Gulf Coast region, but also to South Africa, India, Central Asia and Eastern Europe. In order to take advantage of its unique geographic location, the Dubai Municipality has been vigorously promoting transportation-related infrastructure since the 1970s, with port development and airport construction being the most important infrastructure projects. 1970 saw the official opening of Port Rashid in Dubai, and 1979 saw the opening of the world's largest man-made port, Port Jebelali. In 1979, the world's largest artificial port, Dubai JEBELALI, became operational. After nearly 20 years of hard work, Dubai has not only become the number one port in the Persian Gulf region, but also occupies a pivotal position in the world's port shipping industry.
In May 1991, Dubai established the Dubai Ports Authority (DPA), a professional port management organization, to implement the unified management of the Port of Rushd, which is located in downtown Dubai, and the Port of Jebel Ali, which is located 35 kilometers outside of Dubai. Since then, Dubai Ports Authority has played the role of locomotive in Dubai's economic activities, and Dubai ports have stepped into the path of orderly and formalized development. 1999, Dubai's container throughput reached 3 million TEUs, a record high. In the same year, about 10,200 ships called at Dubai's two ports, of which 4,000 were container ships. At present, there are about 125 shipping companies whose routes pass through Dubai. This shows that Dubai has been ranked among the world's major ports and has become the world's premier transshipment trade port.
The Dubai Ports Authority (DPA) attaches great importance to the improvement of the port facilities, especially the acquisition of cargo handling machinery and equipment at the container terminals. Today, the Dubai Ports Authority belongs to the two ports *** have 102 berths, with 15 Panama-type bridge machine, 8 ultra-Panama-type bridge machine, 34 sets of tire container gantry cranes, 27 sets of straddle loader, 191 sets of cranes less than 5 tons, 26 sets of more than 5 tons of cranes, 24 sets of empty container handler, 14 sets of top cranes, 274 sets of trailers, 152 terminal tow trucks, 2 sets of mobile harbor cranes and 950 refrigerated outlets. Both Port Rushd and Port Jebelali have container repair facilities adapted to the passage of large numbers of containers to provide more efficient port services. In addition, Jebel Ali Port has a 43,000 cubic meter oversized refrigerated warehouse. Dubai Ports Authority has achieved ISO 9002 certification for container and general cargo handling operations.
A major adjunct to the Port of Jebel Ali is the adjacent Jebel Ali Free Trade Zone (FTZ), which was established in 1985 with an investment of US$2.5 billion, and has become a large-scale special zone ideal for logistics, warehousing, import/export trade, production and processing. The Dubai government has granted a number of preferential policies to enterprises entering the Duty Free Zone, including exemption from import duties, free entry and exit of goods from and to the port, authorization for foreign investors to set up sole proprietorships, and free repatriation of profits abroad, among others. There are now more than 1,100 global multinationals and renowned companies that have entered the Jebel Ali Free Trade Zone, and these companies have set up production and logistics centers within the free trade zone, contributing to the growth of imported and exported goods in Dubai.
In fact, Dubai's functional positioning has gone far beyond its original single port, as it not only serves as a transit center for materials destined for the domestic market, but also plays an important role as a logistics base for the surrounding region. The surrounding areas here include both the member states of the Gulf Cooperation Organization (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, etc.), but also the Indian subcontinent, the former CIS countries and South Africa, East Africa, North Africa, a vast area. Dubai Ports Authority is highly efficient in loading and unloading cargo, has a wide range of warehouse facilities adapted to various needs, is able to carry out reliable on-road transportation on its own, and offers a variety of advanced cargo control systems and logistics management systems, all of which provide for the rapid turnaround of cargo.
The Dubai Ports Authority's long-term goal is to build Dubai into a global shipping hub similar to Hong Kong and Singapore in the Far East. To this end, over the next 10 years, Dubai will continue to build the necessary port infrastructure and open a third artificial port. At the same time, Dubai will also increase the technological content of port operations, the introduction of shipping systems and technology, including data processing, cargo monitoring, information transmission, terminal management and other functions, and strive to set the "cargo port" and "logistics information port" in one.
Dubai Ports Authority has been awarded "Best Port in the Middle East" by Cargo News Asia for three consecutive years, and "Best Container Terminal Operator" by the 11th AFIA (ASIAN FREIGHT INDUSTRY AWARDS). In just over 20 years, the cargo throughput of the Port of Dubai has consecutively surpassed that of established Asian ports such as Shanghai and Bangkok, and one cannot help but marvel at the speed of its development. People have reason to believe that, with the continued development of the Middle East region's economy and the increasingly frequent exchanges with the rest of the world, Dubai Port will certainly achieve new development in the future.