Cargo movement through Dubai Airport, 1977-2015 

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... increase in cargo volume shown in Figure 3 is a clear indication of Dubai's strong economic expansion, beginning in the 1990s and continuing into recent years, becoming more active with other parts of the U.A.E. and the GCC. Emirates Airlines has added more cargo aircraft to its service, in addition to using the cargo village in the airport. The Emirates sky cargo fleet currently consists of 12 aircraft-a small total relative to other global air cargo fleets, but the company is planning to expand, not only by increasing cargo handling by its cargo fleet but also by using Emirates passenger aircraft to carry some cargo containers and by attracting other companies to use Dubai airports for their cargo ...

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... activity always depends on the availability of convenient modes of transportation to move commodities from producers to consumers quickly, cost-effectively, and safely. The Dubai government's policies are aimed at facilitating the movement of goods to various desti- nations around Dubai. Dubai's location has played a major role in accomplishing these objectives, thanks to its world-class ports relative to other ports in the region. Expansion of cargo transportation in Dubai has been highly depen- dent on the strategic plans of the government, which focused on the geographic location of Dubai as a driver and enabler of most of its poli- cies in relation to the growing Europe-Asia air cargo distribution networks (Senguttuvan 2006 In general, industrial producers, regardless of their geographic loca- tion, have the goal of delivering their products to the consumer on time. Air transport is used more frequently for items of higher cost and lower weight (e.g., jewellery, fruit, certain machine parts). The levels of commercial re-export activity in the Dubai market have created a kind of competition between the cargo companies to attract more consumers in the re-export business, in which Dubai is recognized both in the region and globally. Figure 3 shows the movement of cargo through Dubai airport between 1977 and 2015. Many factors influenced the growth that began in the early 1990s: first, the development of the airport's cargo infrastructure, including the establishment of a "cargo village" to serve the demands of cargo movement; second, the airport's success in attracting more cargo airlines to operate out of DWC; and, finally, Emirates Airlines' entry into the cargo services sector, achieved by adding cargo-type aircraft to its large fleet of commercial passenger aircraft. These factors have interacted to create a solid cargo infrastructure, airport, and market in Dubai. Cargo movement received significant government attention in 1980, when the Dubai government made sound decisions to support the full right of all countries to move cargo through Dubai airports (Kasarda and Sullivan ...