Dubai Chamber records 100% growth in non-oil trade with Ghana

The Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) has over 12,000 African companies registered with it and operating in Dubai.
Its non-oil trade with Africa grew from United Arab Emirates Dirham (AED) 84.4 billion in 2011 to AED 118 billion in 2014, registering about 40 per cent growth.

The Dubai Chamber is one of the few chambers in the world with representative offices in foreign markets.

The President and Chief Executive Officer of DCCI, Mr Hamad Buamim, who disclosed this said the Dubai Chamber had two offices in Africa, namely Ghana and Ethiopia and was aiming at opening two new chambers by the end of the first quarter of 2016 in Mozambique and Kenya.

He said the chamber was also studying the possibility of opening more offices in Uganda and Angola.

He was addressing 12 journalists from Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt, South Africa and Uganda during their visit to the chamber in Dubai to familiarise themselves with operations there.

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