{"id":56140,"date":"2017-01-09T18:50:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T20:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/escaesco.com.br\/lab\/anba\/dubai-chambers-membership-increases-9\/"},"modified":"2019-06-30T12:03:43","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T15:03:43","slug":"dubai-chambers-membership-increases-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/dubai-chambers-membership-increases-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Dubai Chamber\u2019s membership increases 9%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S&atilde;o Paulo &ndash; The Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry has reported that 16,800 companies have registered with the organization in 2016, which brought up the number of members to 201,000, an increase of 9% over 2015. The information was published this Monday (9) by the <em>Emirates News Agency (WAM)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Exports and re-exports done by member companies totaled AED 273 billion (USD 74.3 billion). Saudi Arabia was the main destinations for the exports, with AED 87.8 billion (USD 23.7 billion) in imports. <\/p>\n<p>The Dubai Chamber issues 923,056 certificates of origin in the period. The organization also took part in 78 events in 50 cities throughout the world and welcomed delegations from 81 countries.<\/p>\n<p>The Dubai Chamber&rsquo;s arbitration court received 214 cases in 2016, with the Legal Department receiving 710 mediation cases. The organization held 31 events of corporate social responsibility and sustainability.<\/p>\n<p>According to <em>WAM<\/em>, Dubai Chamber&rsquo;s president, Hamad Buamim, said that the emirate&rsquo;s economy hold up well last year, despite the challenges in the global scenario, and that Dubai has stepped up its efforts towards economic diversification, minimizing the effects brought by the low growth of global trade.<\/p>\n<p>He mentioned especially the execution of real estate and tourism projects. &ldquo;These major initiatives will only increase foreign investors&rsquo; interest in Dubai,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>*Translated by S&eacute;rgio Kakitani<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-189725\">Matt Frost\/Robert Harding Heritage\/AFP<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The organization registered 16,800 new companies last year, bringing the total number of members to 201,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":189725,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-56140","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business-opportunities"},"wps_subtitle":"The organization registered 16,800 new companies last year, bringing the total number of members to 201,000.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}