Mauritania keen on benefiting from DC World’s success in Djibouti
A high-level delegation from Mauritania, led by Mohammed Abdullah Walad Yaha, Minister of Investment, on Sunday, March 16, 2008, visited the Dubai Customs World headquarters and held talks with Hamad Mohammed Fadhel Al Mazrooei, CEO, DC World. During the meeting, the minister expressed Mauritania’s keenness to benefit from the UAE’s outstanding economic experience in all fields of development, particularly in the area of advanced customs solutions applied by DC World. He said that DC World’s success in Djibouti is worth emulating.
The minister said: “Our visit to the UAE to hold a series of key meetings with senior officials comes as part of the open-door economic policy recently adopted by Mauritania. It is aimed at achieving significant progress in the total development.”
“Mauritania commends Dubai on its success in diversifying its revenue sources and developing infrastructure and human resources. Dubai’s keenness to export its success formula and innovations, as in the case of launching a new customs solutions system, is particularly commendable. DC World’s success in the management of Djibouti Customs is worth studying and following. We can learn a lot from it. That is why we are looking forward to signing a similar co-operation agreement, since customs represents a major source of income,” he added.
Al Mazrooei stressed DC World’s readiness to contribute to transferring its experience. He said: “We are ready to share our experience with our Mauritanian counterpart within a specific framework to ensure the best use of human and technological capabilities and realize mutual benefit. This will promote ties between the two countries and encourage mutual investment. Customs play a substantial role in encouraging investors and businessmen alike to start projects, which act as an engine to boost economic growth and overall development.”
“DC World is well-positioned to provide training and apply information systems and technologies towards simplifying customs procedures and ensuring healthy financial returns. The remarkable achievement by DC World in Djibouti bears good evidence to the success of its strategy in the field,” Al Mazrooei added.
