With a long tradition in boat building and a central location on one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes, Dubai remains a serious player in the shipbuilding industry. The UAE, as a whole, invested between $170m and $220m on boat design and boat building in 2013, according to the Dubai Council for Marine Industries and Drydocks World. While this includes pleasure crafts...
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Articles & Analysis | Dubai's expanding infrastructure offers new opportunities for the shipbuilding segment from The Report: Dubai 2015
Articles & Analysis | Dubai taking innovative steps to become a major maritime centre from The Report: Dubai 2015
With a strategic position near the Strait of Hormuz, Dubai has always been a natural location for a port serving its hinterland, and the emirate has a longstanding maritime tradition. Furthermore, following the development of Jebel Ali Port, which now has the largest man-made harbour in the world, Dubai has emerged as a serious player in the global maritime industry....
The manufacturing sector has recorded consistent growth in recent years, accounting for 13.7% of the emirate’s GDP in 2013. Free zones such as the Jebel Ali Free Zone and the Dubai Auto Zone continue to play an important role in the sector, with incentives helping to draw in international players. According to the Jebel Ali Free Zone Authority, its 625 automotive companies generated trade...
Chapter | Maritime Industry from The Report: Dubai 2015
Dubai’s maritime industry adds $3.92bn in economic value annually and the emirate’s government has placed a strong emphasis on the sector in the last decade. Long-term goals include implementing smart technology, maintaining high-quality infrastructure and developing local human capital. In the first initiative of its kind in the Middle East, the Emirates Maritime Arbitration Centre in Dubai...
In many respects 2014 marked the transition from strong recovery to promising growth for Dubai. With many exciting projects in the pipeline, not least the hosting of Expo 2020, the emirate is continuing to build on its reputation as a dynamic and international centre for business.
A flurry of major infrastructure projects in Indonesia is set to boost the construction sector, although growth in the domestic building materials industry remains hamstrung by regional competition and government intervention in some cases.