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Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras recently gained further understandings into Dubai's pioneering experience in constructing one of the world's most affordable, appealing, and comprehensive maritime cluster. The leading Greek authorities commended the first-rate success and one-upmanship of Dubai, making it at the same level with the world's most important maritime and logistics facilities. This happened during his visit to the structure of Dubai Maritime City Authority (DMCA) on the opening day of 2018 Posidonia Exhibition which held recently at the Athens Metropolitan Expo. Senior DMCA officials headed by Executive Director for Operations Ali Al Daboos and Nawfal Al Jourani, Chief Officer of Dubai Maritime Cluster Office, welcomed the visit, saying it reflects the high confidence placed by the international maritime community in Dubai as a leading global maritime center. DMCAs participation at Posidonia 2018 is a continuation of its success in standing for the UAE in the most vital global maritime forums and in looking for means to boost maritime collaboration between the UAE and Greece as a significant hub on the maritime trade map.

The Emirati officials highlighted prior to the Greek Prime Minister and local maritime leaders the UAE's competitive maritime cluster fundamentals, which supply promising investment possibilities for Greek and global shipowners as one of one of the most affordable and sustainable capitals on the planet. In addition, they showcased the UAE's accomplishments and qualitative initiatives launched to attract international financiers and open new perspectives for concerned services to benefit from the local financial and financial investment possibilities. DMCA focused on developing the ideal atmosphere to advertise maritime tasks based upon modern facilities and regulations to satisfy the 21st century demands and prepare for future needs.

The Greek Prime Minister additionally listened to the comprehensive description of Ali Al Daboos and Al- Jourani regarding Zayed Humanitarian Day, which notes the death anniversary of the late founder of the UAE, Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan, that laid the structure for making altruistic work and civilized actions a well-established society and standard in the Arab state. The DMCA authorities claimed the Zayed Humanitarian Day is a milestone and an essential platform to remember the motivating heritage and honorable worths of the UAE's founding father as evidenced by the country's proceeding humanitarian efforts profiting individuals from all around the world.

International visitors have been flocking to the DMCA's structure to check out the toughness of the local maritime components, particularly shipping, ports, engineering, and maritime support, which are reinforcing Dubai's position as one of the top 2017 maritime capitals worldwide. Dubai additionally made it to the leading five in terms of maritime attractiveness and competition and amongst the leading 10 in all facets of the maritime sector. It was also recognized for its advanced and attractive maritime business environments. Visitors expressed interest in DMCA's achievements and initiatives, especially in the promotion of innovation and using smart modern technology to drive development and sustainability in the maritime field. Several of these initiatives consist of the Dubai Virtual Cluster, Innovation Quay and Maritime Dubai, which is strategically essential as the first plan in Dubai focused on organizing, developing and enhancing the maritime sector in a holistic fashion based on the greatest standards of excellence, creativity, innovation, human financial investment and environmental protection, aiming at developing a renewable and protected maritime sector with the ability of driving lasting financial advancement.

Amer Ali, Executive Director of DMCA, said the Authority's visibility in 'Posidonia' and various other similar international maritime discussion forums open new perspectives to develop solid ties between the UAE and Greece, both which are understood for their competitive advantages and prominent global placements. He applauded the duty of the tactical 'Posidonia' in presenting global maritime community leaders to the qualitative accomplishments, ambitious strategies, and affordable variables that make the UAE and Dubai the destination of Greek and various other worldwide ship proprietors and operators seeking to take advantage of the region's appealing opportunities.

Ali added: "The 'Posidonia' event is an excellent chance to showcase our successful experience in the advancement of the maritime sector based on innovation, knowledge, and smart transformation. This becomes part of our quote to establish a dynamic and sustainable economic climate based on innovation and knowledge in line with the instructions of the UAE's wise leadership in pushing towards financial diversification and post-oil economic situation and supported by Dubai Maritime Sector Strategy (MSS) which plays a key function in this endeavor. We are additionally relocating in the direction of fulfilling the goals of Greek and other international financiers as we stay dedicated to modernizingour facilities, developing key plans, incorporating regulative frameworks, and boosting maritime performances. All these will create a solid column to catapult Dubai into the rankings of leading global maritime neighborhoods such as Singapore, Athens, Hamburg, Oslo, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Copenhagen, and London,"

He concluded: We reaffirm our absolute commitment to launch quality initiatives that will increase the confidence of regional and international investors in the competitive capabilities of the maritime community and improve the components of the local maritime sectorin line with Dubai Plan 2021. These include offshore services and the operation and maintenance of giant marine vessels.As we aim to become one of the world's leading business and investment centers, we look forward to exploring ways to enhance maritime cooperation between the UAE and Greece to optimize opportunities in both countries."

Stakeholders from Greece and various other worldwide maritime countries have revealed solid passion in DMCA's countless efforts such as the Dubai Virtual Cluster, which aims to build participation amongst and favorable involvement of maritime market leaders in regards to research and development, innovation, and training through its virtual visibility device. Offering high-level interactive attributes, it functions as a promotional platform, a comprehensive info and knowledge site, and a digital center for innovation, research, growth and training.

An additional DMCA-led effort is Innovation Quay released to harness imaginative ideas and technical innovations in the advancement of maritime market components. Through the provision of incorporated solutions and remarkable chances, the campaign enables developers, innovators, and researchers to transform their proposals right into actual projects in order to help strengthen Dubai's leadership on the global maritime scene.

The 'Dubai Maritime' is an additional DMCA-led campaign gives an integrated structure for the growth of maritime plans and the activation of sychronisation in between government agencies and local, regional and global organizations interested in maritime events, cost-free areas, ports, among others. It advertises tasks related to the local maritime field, which is the home of more than 5,500 companies operating 13,000 maritime tasks that are fuel the nationwide economic climate by producing over 76,000 tasks.

The biennial and interactive 'Posidonia' exhibit improves straight communication among choice manufacturers, government dignitaries, specialists, ship owners, ship operators, international and lawful financiers, and representatives of significant shipping companies from around the world.

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