Dubai World Central (DWC) is home to Dubai Logistics City (DLC), world’s first multi-modal integrated logistics platform. DLC incorporates more than 25 sq. km of free zone and serves every transport mode, logistics need and value-adding operation in the supply chain, including manufacturing and assembly, all within a single-bonded, free zone environment.

With a capacity to turn over 12 million tons of air cargo annually, Dubai Logistics City is strategically located alongside the world’s biggest airport, the new DWC Al Maktoum International Airport and adjacent to one of the world’s largest container handlers, Jebel Ali Port and Free Zone.

DLC is ideal for businesses such as:

• Companies with multi-modal transportation needs
  
  
• Corporations seeking professional logistics environments and free trade facilities
  
  
• Range of innovative, value-added logistics services
  
  
• Businesses requiring speedy air freight, multi-modal transportation and complex logistics services

Companies can establish distribution centers in DLC, replenish them via land, air or sea and deliver to customers using the most cost and time effective methods.

Services

Destined to become another of Dubai’s outstanding commercial landmarks, Dubai Logistics City supports the emirate’s market leading position as a logistics hub for the wider Middle East and beyond. It serves the growing needs of multinational companies involved in a range of different fields such as:

• High-tech and electronics
  
  
• Spare parts and after-sales
  
  
• Healthcare and life sciences
  
  
• Consumer goods and fashion
  
  
• Relief aid and NGOs

DLC serves every transport mode, logistics need and value-adding operation in the supply chain, including light manufacturing and assembly, all within a single-bonded free zone environment. It is a transit hub linking continents and markets such as Asia, Europe and Africa by providing:

• Air-air transport to connect even remote sources with core world markets
  
  
• Sea-air transport to ensure on-time delivery within intercontinental supply chains and keep costs under control
  
  
• The option to combine transit with customization, packaging or labeling of goods and other value-adding services

The service providers, forwarders, integrators and airlines within the community provide a total package of professional logistics solutions to a wide range of industries like trading companies, light manufacturing and assembly businesses. Air cargo from the existing Dubai International Airport will be linked to DLC via bonded and professionally operated road and rail corridor. This scheduled resource will operate round-the-clock, several times an hour, delivering cargo directly to the heart of the DLC business community.

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