Dubai Trade, the cross-border trade facilitator, has announced a 94% increase in the number of its services accessed online in the first half of 2014 compared with the same period last year.
The massive growth happened as Dubai Trade has worked with customers to encourage online use with training courses and support through its call centre.
This is in line with its strategic goals to be a single window for trade in Dubai by offering customers a seamless and streamlined trade facilitation process through its 720 e-Services.
The state of the art Contact Centre, which operates 24/7 to support the dramatic growth of registered companies and users in multiple languages, handled more than 261,000 calls in the first half of the year, working with companies to assist them to effectively and efficiently use the e-Services.
Similarly, the demand for the Certified Trade and Logistics Professional (CTLP) training course that covers the end-to-end import and export process exceeded expectations with a growth rate of 20% compared with 2013 half year figures.
Dubai Trade’s commitment to education and training led to it being presented with the Supply Chain and Transport Awards (SCATA) Training and Education Provider of the Year 2014 award for the second year.
The first half year of the year also saw a 27% growth in new companies joining the Dubai Trade Portal, resulting in 8,985 new registered companies, taking numbers from 79,083 in 2013 to 96,889 so far in 2014. This generated a 12% growth in transactions with a total of 9.1 million transactions processed by users on the Dubai Trade Portal.
The increased activity also had a positive impact on the secured e-Payment gateway ‘Rosoom’, which handled 549,000 payment transactions valued at AED440 million, a 39% growth rate.
Source : WAM News Agency for United Arab Emirates
