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On the occasion of the Commemoration Day and 51st UAE National Day, kindly note that all administrative offices at Dubai Creek and Deira Wharfage offices will be closed from Thursday 01 December 2022 to Saturday 03 December 2022 and work will resume on Monday 5th of December 2022 at normal business hours of 07:30 am to 03:30 pm.

The operation timings during the holidays will be as follows:

Operations:

• 06:00 – 24:00

Registration Counter:

• 06:00 – 16:00

Marine Tower:

24 hours

Dubai Chamber of Commerce’s services such as Certificates of Origin, and attestation will be accessible on the Dubai Trade Portal

Dubai Trade, a DP World company and the Dubai Chamber of Commerce have signed an agreement to allow the local business community easier access to the Chamber’s trade services. This includes certificates of origin, attestation, and other membership services, which will be accessible on the Dubai Trade Portal, a single window platform for international trade.

The agreement was signed by H.E. Hamad Buamim, President & CEO of Dubai Chambers and Abdulla Bin Damithan, CEO & Managing Director, DP World UAE & Jafza.

H.E. Hamad Buamim, President & CEO of Dubai Chambers said: “Our aim has always been to cement Dubai’s position as a leading global business hub and facilitate Dubai’s trade and investment flows with other markets around the world. Through our collaboration with Dubai Trade, we believe that our aim of enhancing the Emirate’s competitiveness in key sectors such as trade and logistics will be much more achievable, as we will be able to integrate various services on a common platform and ensure faster and easier business operations. Moreover, this strategic partnership with Dubai Trade falls in line with our digital transformation efforts and Dubai’s Paperless Strategy, as the platform will further encourage us to adopt a paperless approach to trading operations and payments.”

Abdulla Bin Damithan, CEO & Managing Director, DP World UAE & Jafza said: “As a leading trade enabler, we believe in providing integrated trade solutions that enable our customers to look beyond the horizon. Through our partnership with the Dubai Chamber of Commerce, we aim to further enhance our customers’ experience, helping them leverage through key services and providing a wider range of solutions. In addition to that, we are confident that our collaboration with Dubai Chamber of Commerce will open doors for our users to deal with global corporations and investors, uplifting their businesses to greater standards by capitalising on international trading opportunities.”

Hussain Al Blooshi, COO, Dubai Trade said, “Dubai Trade has played a pivotal role in increasing the competency of the industry by leveraging the robust trade and logistics capabilities through its Single Window. We work closely with our clients to develop a thorough understanding of their requirements and collaborate with key players in the trade sector, which has established us as a single-window for cross border trading in Dubai. Dubai Chamber of Commerce services are a significant addition to our customers to facilitate trade and further enhance ease of doing business, and we believe that this partnership will surely add value to our platform’s users, enabling seamless access to international markets.”

The latest collaboration between Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Dubai Trade aims to boost Dubai’s position as a leading global trade hub by streamlining the trade process and offering faster operations for more than 180,000 customers.

Dubai Trade offers 24/7 access to over 700 digital trade and logistics e-services, allowing its customers a seamless trading experience. These include Customs eClearance, ePermits, Port eClearance, ePayments, company licensing and Free Zone administrative services.

• Training aims to increase operational efficiency, health & safety for the trade and logistics community
• In collaboration with Savefest and 4D Supply Chain
• Latest courses offered to 180,000 registered companies

Dubai Trade, DP World’s single window platform for cross border trade, reaffirms its commitment to enhancing the safety and efficiency of its operations by joining forces with health and safety training provider, SaveFast, and logistics and supply chain consultation provider, 4D Supply Chain Consulting.

Through this collaboration, Dubai Trade will offer its employees and partners health and safety training, as well as supply chain efficiency courses to benefit the entire trade and logistics community.

Dubai Trade will work with 4D Supply Chain Consulting to provide courses on Bills of Lading, Letters of Credit, and Incoterms 2020. It will also work with SaveFast to offer courses including Fire Safety, Emergency First Aid, and Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) & National Examination Board in Occupational Safety and Health (NEBOSH).

Hussain Alblooshi, Chief Operating Officer of Dubai Trade said: “Since its inception, Dubai Trade has been supporting companies and individuals to comply with local and international regulations. The training and courses we offer are in line with the entity’s ultimate policy of ensuring supply chain efficiency, while causing zero harm to people and the environment. They are also backed by market case studies and scenarios, giving them a competitive edge, and adding much value to our partners.”

“The health and safety training courses are the cornerstones of our approach towards Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) issues, forming a critical part of our S&E Framework. In pursuit of this, we strive to ensure that the business activities of our partners are conducted in a manner that avoids and minimises adverse health and safety impacts and reduces workplace accidents. Furthermore, through the supply chain efficiency courses, we aim to provide accredited training content to enhance the competency of industry professionals in developing effective supply chain strategies.”

Dubai Trade is constantly looking to enhance the knowledge base of logistics professionals through tailored orientation and certifications courses. The platform has added new courses to improve learning experiences, making it significantly more impactful and effective for its 240,000 active users from over 180,000 registered companies.

All courses include engaging content to accelerate the learning process. Coupled with E-learning, the platform also allows partners to learn on the go. In the 14 years since it was established, Dubai Trade training has won five industry accolades and awards and has transformed the professional lives of over 28,000 graduates.

Dubai government has launched Ecommerce strategy in Sep 2019, with aim to transform Dubai into a world class Ecommerce hub will which benefits Dubai’s economy.

It is based on three key pillars:
1. Make Dubai as logistics hub to serve the region
2. Promote Dubai as service and talent hub and attract leading global Ecommerce players
3. And lead by example for Safe Ecommerce market

Project aims to fulfill these strategic objectives and ambitions to make Dubai as Ecommerce hub.

This initiative will have changes in existing Dubai Customs processes wherein the Ecommerce companies can submit bulk E-Commerce Declarations and avail E-Commerce (B2C) benefits. Various other impact on other Declaration processing stages have been assessed and implemented as part of this release.

There are many logistics companies operating in free zones having contract with overseas and local Ecommerce companies to store goods in their premises (warehouse). Customs shall now be able to identify the actual associated companies i.e. actual owner of the goods where 3PL is acting as Free zone Importer / Free zone Exporter using “Cargo Ownership” and “Associated Owner” attributes.

Further to identify a transaction as E-Commerce or non E-Commerce, there is introduction of a new field in declaration called "Trade Type". Trade Type should have two values (E-Commerce or non E-Commerce) in applicable declarations.
Below additional information via Dubai Trade user interface or B2G channel is required:
• Trade Type = E-Commerce or Non-E-Commerce
• Cargo Ownership = Self Ownership or Other Company Ownership (if declarant is 3PL Company)
• Owner Associated Company = Business Code of the Associated Company (in case Cargo Ownership = Other Company Ownership)

With help of this initiative, we will be able to identify declaration as E-Commerce or Non E-Commerce in order to encourage and retain E-Commerce players in the region. Recognize E-Commerce companies to ease regulations and provide benefits. Aapplicable declaration service charges/duty/deposit will be made cheaper.

Please be informed that:

• Employment Contracts have been amended and new templates are already in place in accordance with the provisions and conditions included in the Decree by Federal Law No. (33) of 2021 on regulating labour relations and its amendments.
• In addition, the limited Employment Contracts currently in force will be considered valid until their expiration and will be subject to the provisions and conditions included in the Decree by Federal Law No. (33) of 2021 on regulating labour relations and its amendments.
• And based on the Ministerial resolution No. 27 of 2023 recently issued, the deadline of the conversion for the unlimited employment contract to limited employment contract has been extended until 31-12-2023.

Please be informed that:

• Employment Contracts have been amended and new templates are already in place in accordance with the provisions and conditions included in the Decree by Federal Law No. (33) of 2021 on regulating labour relations and its amendments.
• In addition, the limited Employment Contracts currently in force will be considered valid until their expiration and will be subject to the provisions and conditions included in the Decree by Federal Law No. (33) of 2021 on regulating labour relations and its amendments.
• And based on the Ministerial resolution No. 27 of 2023 recently issued, the deadline of the conversion for the unlimited employment contract to limited employment contract has been extended until 31-12-2023.

Please be informed that:

• Employment Contracts have been amended and new templates are already in place in accordance with the provisions and conditions included in the Decree by Federal Law No. (33) of 2021 on regulating labour relations and its amendments.
• In addition, the limited Employment Contracts currently in force will be considered valid until their expiration and will be subject to the provisions and conditions included in the Decree by Federal Law No. (33) of 2021 on regulating labour relations and its amendments.
• And based on the Ministerial resolution No. 27 of 2023 recently issued, the deadline of the conversion for the unlimited employment contract to limited employment contract has been extended until 31-12-2023.

In our continuous effort to achieve goals of the Dubai Paperless strategy; to reduce paper consumption and its cost to customers and for the purpose of simplifying and facilitating faster automated claim processing, Dubai Customs is pleased to announce that exit confirmation for the goods exiting through Jebel Ali port is now automatically performed through integration with DP World system.

In this regard, as part of initial phase, issuance. stamping, and submission of Exit / Entry Certificate paper will be discontinued, effective from May 01, 2021, for the goods exporting from Jebel Ali Free Zone and exiting through Jebel Ali port under FZ Transit Out movements without deposit.

In view of this, Exit / Entry Certificate paper will not be required now from customers to process ‘Non Remittance’ claims for FZ Transit out declarations without deposit (exporting from Jebel Ali Free Zone via Jebel Ali Port).

In case if any exit discrepancy is identified on claim due to exit automation and validation with DP World system, claim may be suspended and customer will be requested to provide export evidence. In such case, customer may approach DP World for issuance and stamping of Exit / Entry Certificate paper in order to furnish Exit / Entry Certificate to Customs for completion of claim processing.

Please note that, in this initial phase, Exit / Entry Certificate paper will be eliminated only for ‘Non-Remittance’ FZ Transit Out declarations without deposit exporting from Jebel Ali Free Zone via Jebel Ali Port.

Issuance and submission of Exit / Entry Certificate paper will be continued in the same existing manner for all other cases of deposit and non-deposit declarations.

Further, submission of Exit / Entry Certificate paper will not be eliminated and always be continued for the claims related to ship-stores, private berths, and bulk oil consignments even exiting through Jebel Ali Port.

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Please note that the General Directorate of Residency and Foreigner Affairs (GDRFA) – Dubai services will not be available on Fridays during the Holy Month of Ramadan.

Please note that the General Directorate of Residency and Foreigner Affairs (GDRFA) – Dubai services will not be available on Fridays during the Holy Month of Ramadan.

Please note that the General Directorate of Residency and Foreigner Affairs (GDRFA) – Dubai services will not be available on Fridays during the Holy Month of Ramadan.

On the occasion of “Hijri New Year 1444”, the Administrative Offices at Dubai Creek and Deira Wharfage will remain closed on 30th July 2022 and work will resume on 1st August 2022 at normal business hours of 07:30 am to 03:30 pm.

The operation timings during the holidays will be as follows:

Operations:

• 06:00 – 22:00

Registration Counter:

• 06:00 – 22:00

Marine Tower:

24 hours

Further to the directives of the General Directorate for Identity and Foreigners Affairs in Dubai, please be advised of a new requirement for all new entry permit applications.

Effective immediately, applicants are required to upload a copy of the external passport cover when applying for a “New Entry Permits along with their application documents. This requirement applies to all nationalities.

Further to the directives of the General Directorate for Identity and Foreigners Affairs in Dubai, please be advised of a new requirement for all new entry permit applications.

Effective immediately, applicants are required to upload a copy of the external passport cover when applying for a “New Entry Permits along with their application documents. This requirement applies to all nationalities.

Further to the directives of the General Directorate for Identity and Foreigners Affairs in Dubai, please be advised of a new requirement for all new entry permit applications.

Effective immediately, applicants are required to upload a copy of the external passport cover when applying for a “New Entry Permits along with their application documents. This requirement applies to all nationalities.