Centers for the re-export of drinking water, nuts and cocoa in Dubai soon

Dubai, represented by the Dubai Multi Commodities Center, plans to soon establish centers for the re-export of drinking water, nuts and cocoa.

Work is underway to establish a new regional center specialized in all services related to the treatment, bottling and re-export of drinking water, with the aim of increasing trade and re-exports through its lands to various global markets.

Saeed Al-Suwaidi, Director of Agricultural Commodities at the Dubai Multi Commodities Center, said: We have received offers from international water companies, which have expressed their desire to establish production lines for them in the drinking water treatment and bottling center that we want to establish soon, as 50% of the drinking water circulated in The UAE is packed abroad.

Al-Suwaidi explained: The timing of the launch of the water center depends on the completion of studies related to supply chains and the requirements for packaging production and re-export, and we have received many studies and economic feasibility studies related to this matter.

Through the center, Dubai succeeded in placing its name among the major producers and re-exporters of the most important agricultural commodities such as coffee and tea, as the center’s coffee and tea centers are among the largest in the world and one of the most important centers in trading and packing coffee and tea and re-exporting them, and the UAE ranked first in the world as the largest Re-export of tea globally, with its acquisition of 60% of re-export of the commodity and the fifth in its trade.

Al-Suwaidi indicated: We plan to launch an advanced cocoa center, to transform Dubai into an international center for the trade of this important food item with high demand, as part of its medium-to-long-term development strategy, and pointed to the possibility of establishing another center specialized in the production, packaging and re-export of nuts, specifically 4 types. Received strong demand in the global markets.

a decent position

Al-Suwaidi said: The UAE ranked first in the world in re-exporting tea by 60% in terms of value and quantity during the past year 2022, and it came in fifth place in the tea trade after the main producing countries, after the most productive countries: China, India, and Kenya. , and Sri Lanka.

The Director of Agricultural Commodities at the Dubai Multi Commodities Center added: We set a new record in terms of the total quantities of tea that we dealt with in 2022, as the center dealt with 43,000 metric tons of loose tea, and 8,200 metric tons in total of value-added packaged tea. Including about 440 million tea bags, indicating that the total value of tea traded through the tea center has grown by 23% compared to 2021 to exceed 100 million dirhams during the past year through the circulation of 3,500 unpackaged tea containers.

Al-Suwaidi continued: It is the center of tea; A dedicated facility that combines storage, blending and packaging services, providing the most complete and convenient solutions for merchants looking to maintain a stock capable of meeting the requirements of importers in the Middle East and neighboring regions. The center processes tea requests from 13 different countries producing the commodity, especially from the four countries. major in its production, in line with the center’s mission of facilitating tea trade for buyers internationally.

Trademarks

Al-Suwaidi said: The Tea Center is studying dealing with a number of countries that have expanded tea cultivation recently, including Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi, to trade tea produced in those countries through Dubai, especially since the UAE signed agreements to invest in this sector with those countries years ago, as well as a trend A number of senior farmers in tea-producing countries to transfer their expertise to those countries, indicating that the center is monitoring Argentina’s experience in tea cultivation for the first time to discuss opportunities for cooperation in trading distinctive blends of tea and re-exporting them.

According to Al-Suwaidi, the Tea Center deals with 70 brands of different types of tea per month, including the most luxurious types of tea in the world and economical tea varieties with an acceptable price. He stated that the center is an ideal platform for trade, easy storage of goods, and meeting with suppliers and manufacturers to help business grow, as the center carries out three main activities: blending raw tea to produce distinctive blends, bottling tea for more than 70 companies around the world, and helping different countries to buy tea from tea-producing countries. By re-exporting tea produced in Dubai.

Al-Suwaidi explained: The tea center is currently implementing a plan aimed at expanding and doubling production by three times, enhancing services and raising absorptive capacity, with a focus on increasing capacity in tea packaging, as the center succeeded in producing more than 440 million tea bags during the year 2022.

4 thousand metric tons

The Dubai Multi Commodities Coffee Center has stored and processed more than 4,000 metric tons of green and roasted coffee from a wide range of producing markets throughout Central and South America, Asia and Africa, and the center has witnessed the joining of 57 new members during 2022.