Dubai Customs posts strong growth for H1 2023

Dubai Customs has recorded 14 million customs transactions for the first six months of 2023, up ten per cent on figures for the same period last year.

In a strong indication of business recovery, the published figures also reveal the business registration request service recorded a growth of 7 per cent to 143 thousand requests, while customs data recorded 12.3 million declarations, accounting for 88 per cent of the total number of transactions.

Ahmed Mahboob Musabih, Director General of Dubai Customs, CEO of the Ports, Customs and Free Zone Corporation, said, "We have world-leading customs systems that enable us to complete about 80,000 transactions per day, and we have a comprehensive future vision that is in line with the objectives of the Dubai Economic Agenda, doubling the volume of Dubai's foreign trade and adding 400 cities to the foreign trade map."

Meanwhile, the number of intellectual property dispute cases that the department dealt with in the first half of the year 2023 amounted to about 194, which included 10.7 million pieces of counterfeit goods with a total value of about AED 53.28 million.    

In the first half of 2023, the department completed 28 awareness initiatives to introduce the dangers and damages of counterfeit goods, in which 1,237 participants participated.

The Department also announced the Green Customs initiative, which represents a model for joint international action to prevent illegal trade in substances harmful to the environment, by building the capacities of customs inspectors and personnel involved in monitoring, licensing, monitoring, and controlling hazardous materials and waste, and endangered plant and animal breeds, in line with the Year of Sustainability, 

It also committed itself to promoting social responsibility, and to carry out social, health, environmental, charitable, and voluntary activities to contribute to supporting issues affecting society.

جمارك دبي تحقق نتائج نمو قوية خلال النصف الأول من 2023:

- 14 مليون معاملة جمركية
- %10 نسبة نمو مقارنة مع 2022
- 143 ألف طلب تسجيل الأعمال
- %7 نسبة نمو
- 12.3 مليون بيان جمركيhttps://t.co/g8lC0046FC@DubaiCustoms pic.twitter.com/42y8fQJGac

— Dubai Media Office (@DXBMediaOffice) July 23, 2023