Dubai: Dubai Trade, the innovative online service provider of Dubai World, reaffirmed its role as a frontline trade facilitator by recording over 7.3 million transactions made through its portal www.dubaitrade.ae in 2009.
This marked an impressive increase by over 22 per cent compared to the six million transactions recorded in 2008.
The line up of integrated services available on the portal also expanded in 2009. It currently provides a total of 678 online services to the clients of Dubai Trade stakeholders DP World, Economic Zones World, Dubai Customs and Dubai Multi Commodities Centre (DMCC).
This is 13 per cent growth over the 600 services offered in 2008, clearly shows Dubai Trade's continuing efforts to enrich its portfolio of innovative online services to support trade and logistics in Dubai.
Over 30,000 companies and a total number of 48,500 registered users regularly accessed Dubai Trade's hugely popular electronic platform last year. The rapidly increasing user traffic on the portal was supported by ROSOOM, Dubai Trade's innovative e-payment gateway.
Since its launch in 2008, ROSOOM has recorded 293,000 transactions with a total online collection of Dh225 million.
The surge in the number of transactions and registered users is indicative of the wider acceptance of Dubai Trade's services by the trading community and its increasing keenness to adopt electronic services and refrain from the hassle of physically visiting counters and waiting in queues.
