COVID-19 response: Dubai Customs ensures continuity of supply chain

Dubai Customs continue to play a crucial role in maintaining supply chains during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Inspections and clearance operations at sea, air and land entry-points have been running around the clock to ensure the smooth flow of trade.

Transactions processed by Dubai Customs jumped 36 per cent in the first five months of 2020 (5.9 million transactions), compared to the same period last year (4.4 million transactions).

More than 99 per cent of these were done through online channels.

Customs declarations (5 million) also rose 42 per cent in the first five months of this year.

Officials said the state-of-the-art electronic clearance system called Mirsal 2 has helped improve overall efficiency, including automatic 2-minute approval and clearance of about 97 per cent of no-risk consignment transactions without any human intervention.