Jebel Ali

Jebel Ali ( جبل علي in Arabic Jabal ʿ Alī, DMG ʿ Alī Ǧabal, English letters Jebel Ali ) is a well known by its artificial deep-sea port in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. This just gives the Airport Dubai World Central International.

Geographical Location

The former small coastal town, which was 40 kilometers away from Dubai, now goes directly to Dubai. Here in the late 1970s has been dredged in the desert land into the largest ever built by human hands seaport. The majority of the envelope is also here, as is now spread worldwide, handled by freight containers.

History and Significance

In the 1970s, worked in the day giant free trade zone with nearly 40 square kilometers of industrial land to the south and east of the harbor, only four companies with few cranes. The ruling Maktoum family created from the oil money and its old tradition of trade in a few decades, a large-sized envelope, commercial and manufacturing space, on which - also attracted by the tax privileges - in 2011, about 6,600 companies from 100 countries with 129,000 employees located have. Around 40,000 employees are housed on the company's land, leveled the rest. A well-placed geopolitical crossroads of world trade has been created that linked India with Africa and East Asia with Europe.

In the coastal Jebel Ali is a luxurious 5- star hotel Jebel Ali Hotel and Golf Resort is located. In addition, there approximately 13 km inland at present arises the New World - Dubai airport, Dubai World Central International Airport. This partially opened until around 2030 is currently under construction major airport is in close cooperation with the port free trade zone enable a particularly straightforward and very fast cargo ship aircraft. The first line of the new Dubai Metro connects with Dubai City since March 2011 Jebel Ali.

Other important facilities in Jebel Ali:

  • Jebel Ali Free Zone ( JAFZ )
  • Jebel Ali Airport City
  • Jebel Ali Palm
  • Dubai Aluminium Company ( DUBAL )
  • Power plant and seawater desalination plant Jebel Ali ( world's largest facility of its kind, covers the majority of the energy and water demand of Dubai)

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  • Building in Dubai
  • Geography (Dubai )
  • Transport (Dubai )
  • Place in the United Arab Emirates
  • Location seaport
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