Dubai- Mr. Ahmed Butti Ahmed, Director General of Dubai Customs received Wednesday 19th November 2008 at the Customs main building Brigadier Basem Bin Yaqoub Al Hamar, President of Bahrain Customs and his accompanying delegation.  

The 2 day official visit by Bahraini delegation aims at learning about and benefiting from Dubai Customs practices in respect with management of customs facilities at sea and air ports as part of the preparations for opening Port Sheikh Khalifa Bin Selman next year in Bahrain.

The visiting delegation met the Executive Directors at Dubai Customs where a detailed brief outlining the divisional roles and responsibilities and a film showing the development experienced by Dubai Customs in different areas were delivered.

 The delegation was greatly concerned with the electronic services being delivered by Dubai Customs where most of the operations are electronically processed.

While visiting the three terminals of Dubai International Port and the departments of technical Support and Operations, Intellectual property Rights, e-clearnce as represented by the advanced system of Mirsal 2, Valuation, Tariff and Origin the delegation was briefed on the divisional and departmental business processes and procedures.

Underlining the profound fraternal relations between Dubai Customs and Bahrain Customs, Mr. Butti said that “Dubai Customs is willing to provide all the expertise and support needed to operate Port Sheikh Khalifa Bin Selman in Bahrain”.

From his part, Brigadier Al Hamar said that, “this visit aims at learning about the best current customs practices and benefiting from the electronic systems and technological services being used by Dubai Customs in simplifying the procedures for import and export of goods and commodities via sea, air and land ports”.

The visiting delegation was interested in recognizing inspection operations supporting equipments like x-ray equipments used in profiling and scanning inbound baggage and goods, intestine devices for combating smuggling of drugs inside human bodies, e-clearance system and customs intelligence system in use at Dubai Customs.

Worth mentioning, the visit comes within the framework of the bi-lateral cooperative relations among GCC States and the Customs Administrations of both Dubai and Bahrain. The two sides expressed their interest in consolidating bonds of cooperation and developing their relations for the benefits of the common interests between the two countries.