DC Consultative Council debates client initiatives to advance customs services
The Dubai Customs Consultative Council has held its third conference for 2015, chaired by H.E. Ahmed Mahboob Musabih, Director of Dubai Customs, Chairman of the Board. H.E. Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, Chairman of DP World, Chairman of Ports, Customs and Free Zone Corporation, in addition to DC senior authorities, DC members of the council, and chairmen and representatives of business groups, members of the council, went to the meeting.
Enhancing cooperation and collaboration in between DC and company and trade groups in Dubai was one of the items on the meeting's program. The meeting also went over the initiatives recommended by clients to support the development of services and customs facilitation efforts, along with the involvement of company groups, corporates, and customers in the Customs Week, due to be held in January next year.
H.E. Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem stated: "We are adopting an ongoing advancement technique, not just to make our customers satisfied, however also to make them happy." He likewise contacted the Advisory Council to play a favorable role in proposing arranges, ideas, and initiatives aimed at enhancing and establishing the custom-mades services to participate in supporting the achievements of DC, both in your area and internationally, noting that DC had launched numerous initiatives to guarantee customers involvement in its efforts to develop its services and customs assistances, consisting of the recently adopted Authorized Economic Operator (AEO) application which is "a quantum leap in our undertakings to support the economy and implement the security of trade supply chains".
For his part, H.E. Ahmed Mahboob Musabih stated: "The Advisory Council is an end result of partnership and cooperation between the government and business sector, which serves the public interest". He stressed that DC had cultivated the initiatives recommended by DC's clients and had, for that reason, introduced a number of communication platforms to preserve contact with its signed up customers whose number nears 184,000 businesses and specific clients as much as the end of the Q4 of 2015.
On behalf of the members of the DC Consultative Council, Mr. Ashok Sawlani, former chairman of Texmas (Textile Merchants Association), and member of its Management Committee, offered a presentation on the fabrics industry. He pointed out that this sector is among the earliest and largest commercial sectors in Dubai, stating that Dubai Textile City alone is home to more than 750 wholesale fabric traders. He said that according to Dubai Customs stats Dubai's foreign trade in textiles and fabrics reached AED 16.4 billion in 2014, including imports worth AED 10 billion, which shows the significance of this crucial business sector to Dubai.
At the end of the conference, members of the Consultative Council praised DC's interaction, the interest it directed to their tips and the implementation of their ideas. On the other hand, H.E. Ahmed Mahboob Musabih extremely valued such recommendations and ideas as being essential inputs to establish and improve Customs work systems and practices and bring in more performance.
