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Dubai Trade is evolving its Digital Delivery Order (DDO) platform to Trade+ as it continues to invest in enhancing the efficiency and speed of trade operations across Dubai’s supply chain and logistics sectors.

Trade+ facilitates the digital exchange of cargo release documents between shipping lines, freight forwarders, consignees and other trade stakeholders, significantly accelerating the cargo release process.

With the Trade+ service available on the Dubai Trade Single Window for Trade and Logistics, businesses can achieve an average 90% reduction in transaction times, process higher trade volumes and expedite cross-border trade, completing tasks that once took up to 48 hours in under 10 minutes.  

As well as streamlining approvals, payments and document transfers, Trade+ also delivers environmental benefits by eliminating paper-based processes. With 100% paperless transactions, the service has saved an estimated 2.36 million documents from being printed in 2024 and substantially reduced carbon emissions associated with travel, fuel usage and congestion.

Dubai Trade has invested considerable resources in creating Trade+ to ensure it meets the evolving needs of businesses. The platform will continue to be refined and developed to provide additional benefits and process improvements, further optimising the efficiency and experience of conducting trade in Dubai.

The platform highlights Dubai Trade’s commitment to transforming trade through digitalisation, aligning with Dubai's Economic Agenda D33 and objective to be a leading global trade and logistics hub, and supporting the Smart City vision, an initiative aimed at transforming the city into one of the most technology advanced and sustainable urban centres in the world.

• 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.