One of the most important websites in the Arab world
Dubai Customs Website wins the Golden and Bronze awards
Dubai Customs website has won the golden award within the government sector category for being the best website from the technical aspect at the Arab Countries level and the bronze award within the Arabic Government websites category on behalf of the "Pan Arab Web Awards" academy, during the opening ceremony held at the Burj Al Arab Hotel on Saturday, April 25th, 2009.
Mr.Ahmad Mahboob Mousbeh, Executive Director of the Clients Departments at Dubai Customs has been granted the awards. He stated that "Dubai Customs winning those awards comes as part of its contribution in achieving some of Customs strategic objectives such as providing state of the art technical resources, and hence is the result of a thorough work and great efforts exerted in order to develop and modernize the Customs website as well as other sectors and the Communication Department. That hard work had inevitably a great impact on developing and modernizing the website and qualifying it for receiving such considerate awards at the Arab level”.
Dubai Customs website http://www.dubaicustoms.gov.ae is considered one of the most important websites in the Arab world and worldwide, it is provided in both Arabic and English and offers within its links and different pages a wide range of information about all services being offered by Dubai Customs as well as laws and systems in force at Customs, Dubai, the UAE and the areas of relevance to Customs business.
It also offers e-clearance (i.e. electronic customs clearance) through Mirsal System which is used in Dubai Customs.
The portal also offers comprehensive information for travelers and visitors making it easy for them to know more about the procedures they need to go through whether financial, commercial, or otherwise.
Wide-ranging news updates about the department’s events and activities can also be found on the Dubai Customs portal. That includes customs related, social, cultural, or even economic events which are regularly held by the department as it continuously strives towards excellence and ongoing development.
Moreover, Dubai Customs gives great prominence to developing the IT sector within it, and was undeniably successful in becoming completely electronic which naturally saved its clients time and effort and made international trade transactions a lot more faster and simpler.
Pan Arab Web Awards allocates special annual prizes to the best Arabic electronic portal in a bid to encourage Arab web designers and inspire them to be more creative to compete with worldwide professionals. The Awards also aim at enhancing the technological development of different sectors in the Arab world.
The judges’ panel consists of a team of professionals who are mainly wed design experts and the competitors are usually evaluated as per international standards. This happens over two stages in order to ensure transparency and accuracy.
