Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has signed an agreement with DP World whereby the Dubai Taxi Corporation (DTC) at the RTA will provide taxi & VIP limousine services to lift tourists from and to Rashid Port.

The Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has signed an agreement with DP World whereby the Dubai Taxi Corporation (DTC) at the RTA will provide taxi & VIP limousine services to lift tourists from and to The Hamdan bin Mohammed Cruise Terminal at Mina Rashid (Rashid Port).

By offering this new service, the DTC will complete a portfolio of official & exclusive operation of the air & marine ports in Dubai Emirate.

RTA has also inked a MoU with DP World to enhance the cooperation between the two parties to streamline the movement of trucks and step up the traffic safety on highways leading to Jebel Ali Port.

The MoU also provides for sharing best practices & systems of tracking the movement of trucks and monitoring attitudes of drivers in order to curb traffic accidents. It also calls for exchanging information about plans of both parties as regards the upgrading of external roads in the surrounds of Jebel Ali Port, and lending support in permit services.

Mattar Al Tayer, director general and chairman of RTA and Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem, CEO & chairman of DP World Group cum Chairman of Ports, Customs & Free Zone Corporation, signed on the MoU.

The taxi & limo service contract provides for DTC to offer taxi and limo services to tourists & others by lifting them from and to the Hamdan bin Mohammed Cruise Terminal at Mina Rashid, provide integrated mobility services, besides developing added services and making them accessible to clients in the best possible manner. The contract also provides for sharing corporate knowledge & practices as well as the findings of studies & statistics of relevance to the business domain of both parties. It also called for promoting the brands of both parties through marketing initiatives & projects they have accomplished, besides cooperating in the field of training & development towards uplifting the calibre of services rendered to clients.

The MoU provided for exchanging inputs of trucks tracking systems installed in external roads leading to all ports in Dubai Emirate, and coordinating the operation of these systems as well as the education of truck drivers.

It also called for sharing information & plans regarding the improvement of external roads linking all ports in Dubai and updates of traffic laws & regulations besides linking the traffic control room of DP World with RTA traffic control room. – TradeArabia News Service