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When Dubai Cargo gateway was built in 1991, it was designed to handle 150,000 tonnes of cargo per year. The 300,000-square-metre complex was built at a cost of $75 million (about Dh 275.5 million) to accommodate air and sea freight growth and facilitate transshipment operations between the Indian sub-continent, South East Asia, the Far East and Europe.
Dubai Airports Company was structured in 2008 to take control of Al Maktoum International Airport at Dubai World Central in Jebel Ali, Dubai International Airport, and Dubai Cargo Village. [ 1 ] In 2016, Dubai Airports started working on the expansion of the Al Maktoum International Airport , from 66,107 to 145,926 sq metres.
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The new facilities will be named Al Maktoum Airport Cargo Gateway and Al Maktoum International Airport. The initial phase, it is expected to handle 700,000 tonnes of cargo per year and by the scheduled 2013 completion it is expected to become the largest of its kind in the world, handling more than 12 million tonnes of cargo annually. [needs ...
Al Maktoum International Airport (IATA: DWC, ICAO: OMDW), also known as Dubai World Central, [3] is an international airport in Jebel Ali, 37 kilometres (23 mi) southwest of [2] Dubai, United Arab Emirates, that opened on 27 June 2010. [1] It is the main part of Dubai South, a planned residential, commercial and logistics complex.
The world's thirty busiest airports by cargo traffic for various periods (data provided by Airports Council International). Numbers listed refer to loaded and unloaded freight in metric tonnes , including transit freight.
For a list of companies that own and operate passenger ships (cruise ships, cargo-passenger ships, and ferries), see List of passenger ship companies. Key " " - Call sign or common name, ( ) - Parent company or conglomerate, > - Previous company name, >> - Company name in local language
Emirates SkyCargo (Arabic: الإمارات للشحن الجوي) is a cargo airline based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. [1] As of 2020, it is the fourth largest cargo airline worldwide in terms of the total freight tonne-kilometres flown and international freight tonne-kilometres flown.