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2001 · 2000s · UAE

Avanti General Trading

2001, Port Rashid and the Deira trading quarter, Dubai, UAE: Warehouse staff and traders moving break-bulk cargo and shipping containers on the quayside at Port Rashid, Dubai, in 2001, with dhows and cranes behind them. — Avanti Holding, Avanti General Trading.
A trading and logistics house opens between the Deira souk offices and the quays of Port Rashid. Building materials and fit-out goods from the eastern Mediterranean and northern Italy clear customs here and move by flatbed into a city then pouring the foundations of Dubai Marina — the group's first UAE cash-flow engine.
Date
Location
Port Rashid and the Deira trading quarter, Dubai, UAE
Pictured
The Dubai trading desk with Emirati and international warehouse staff

Founded in Dubai as a trading and logistics house, connecting Mediterranean and European suppliers to a UAE market entering its most ambitious decade.

Subject · Break-bulk consignments and containerised freight

Source · Documentary recreation · Avanti HoldingDocumentary recreation commissioned by Avanti Holding — not an original archive photograph

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