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    Middle East and North Africa: Leading the way in innovation

    2019-11-27T15:55:00Z

    Despite a sustained period of decline over the last few years affected by a fall in oil prices and geopolitical strife, the Middle East and Africa is fast becoming a region of automotive and supply chain opportunity…

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    Aart Hille Ris Lambers
    UK Commercial Director
    DP World

    2019-11-25T15:44:00Z

    Aart Hille Ris Lambers has over 30 years’ experience in Shipping and Ports. He joined the team at DP World in 2009. Today DP World Southampton is recognised as the most productive UK container terminal while sister terminal DP World London Gateway opened in 2013 and is ...

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    Abdulla Bin Damithan
    Chief Commercial Officer, UAE Region
    DP World

    2019-11-11T14:59:00Z

    Abdulla Bin Damithan has been with DP World since 2001. He was appointed as Chief Commercial Officer for DP World – UAE Region in 2017. Abdulla is responsible for all revenue generation activities, products and services offered across the portfolio including Ports & Terminals, Parks & Zones ...

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    Peter Ward
    Chief Executive
    UK Warehousing Association

    2019-10-23T13:40:00Z

    Peter has over 30 years’ experience in international transportation, logistics and supply chain management; and is recognised as a principal of authority in global supply chains and logistics based on achievements at Director level with some of the world’s leading global logistics providers. A Graduate ...

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    DP World: Access to Africa

    2019-10-16T08:39:00Z

    DP World is expanding its network of logistics operations for the automotive industry across the Middle East and Africa, with a focus on integrated services and special economic zones such as its flagship Jebel Ali Port

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    Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem
    Chairman & CEO
    DP World

    Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem was appointed Group Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of DP World with effect from 30 May 2007. He is also Chairman of the Ports, Customs & Free Zone Corporation (PCFC). Mr Bin Sulayem has been one of Dubai’s leading businessmen for ...

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    Golf Day

    2019-07-18T11:55:00Z

    Hosted by DP World. Be in with a chance of winning 2 full hospitality tickets to the US Open 2020 at the Automotive Logistics Global Detroit Golf Day! Join us before the conference kicks off at the TPC Michigan Golf Course, Tuesday 10 September. 

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    Data and the digitisation of the supply chain

    2019-07-16T15:17:00Z

    The automotive industry is being transformed by new vehicle technology, but operational processes are also undergoing profound changes driven by unprecedented levels of data

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    China offers opportunities and risk for European carmakers

    2019-07-09T16:28:00Z

    Mike Yang, vice-president, Changjiu Logistics The Chinese market has become more complicated for many global OEMs over the past two years, with impacts for how logistics and exports are organised. But logistics experts are anticipating deeper manufacturing ties and trade growth between European and Chinese automotive manufacturers. ...

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    Automotive Logistics launches Middle East and North Africa conference in Dubai

    2019-06-28T11:24:00Z

    Automotive Logistics is responding to the fast pace of growth in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) with the launch of a completely new conference to be held in Dubai between November 19-20. Vehicle sales in the MENA region are on a sharp increase, anticipated ...

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    DP World: Controlling fast logistics

    2019-06-21T10:51:00Z

    Rashid Abdulla, who leads DP World’s Europe and Russia region, talks to Automotive Logistics about how the company’s terminal and multimodal investments will serve the demands of a changing automotive supply chain

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    Interview

    Centre of the world: How the Middle East is growing in importance for automotive

    2019-06-21T08:59:00Z

    With vehicle sales on the rise and multiple free trade zones under development, the Middle East is attracting greater attention from the automotive industry than ever before

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    Simon Pitout
    VP – Commercial & Marketing
    DP World

    Simon Pitout’s career spans over 20 years in the logistics, shipping and terminal industry. He joined DP World in 2008, initially as Commercial Director for DP World’s Middle East and Africa Regions, before being appointed as Vice President, Commercial in 2012. Previously, he held roles ...

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    At DP World we enable smarter trade to make a better future for everyone. We are dedicated to helping our customers move goods around the world in ways that are smarter, faster, safer and more cost-efficient. Our aim is to improve performance at all stages of the global supply chain, from points of manufacture to points of consumption. We are proud to be in a business where we can make a positive difference to the world- not just our customers, our people and our shareholders but for all the communities in which we operate around the globe.

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    China leads digital reinvention of supply chain

    2019-04-18T10:39:00Z

    Andrew Hoad, CEO and MD of Asia Pacific at DP World The automotive industry is undergoing a fundamental change in the way it does business. Global supply chains are being tested to the limit by complications in international trade and the switch to new energy vehicles (NEVs). However, ...

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    In the service of free trade

    2019-04-04T15:59:00Z

    Free trade zones offer many tax and logistics benefits to the automotive supply chain. DP World, with its flagship facility in Dubai, UAE, wants to expand these services in markets in the Middle East and Africa, the UK and the US

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    Peacing together new logistics

    2018-10-25T14:38:19Z

    The end of a longstanding conflict in the Horn of Africa is set to create new pathways into one of the potentially richest automotive markets in the continent; after two decades, Eritrea and Ethiopia have concluded a conflict that has cost hundreds of thousands of lives. The catalyst for peace ...

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    The future of logistics?

    2018-10-01T15:31:00Z

    A manufacturing plant in Pittsburgh with an urgent requirement to send a pallet of freight to Chicago has few attractive options, as there is currently no direct highway route between the two. But if the visionaries at Virgin Hyperloop One have their way, that will soon change. By loading the ...

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    Cracking under sanctions

    2018-08-20T10:22:58Z

    The re-imposition of sanctions by the US on Iran has dealt a hammer blow to the country’s emerging automotive industry. The threat of retaliation by the US against those whom it deems to have broken those sanctions has, once again, prompted vehicle-makers and logistics companies to pull out of the ...