{"id":20672,"date":"2019-06-23T17:08:51","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T13:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/?p=20672"},"modified":"2019-06-23T17:08:51","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T13:08:51","slug":"dmcc-reports-12-growth-in-2018-driving-commodity-trade-volumes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/dmcc-reports-12-growth-in-2018-driving-commodity-trade-volumes\/","title":{"rendered":"DMCC Reports 12% Growth In 2018, Driving Commodity Trade Volumes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dubai Multi Commodities Centre, DMCC, has welcomed 1,868 new companies to its free zone in 2018, marking a 12 percent growth compared to 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The construction of Uptown Dubai, DMCCs new district, is also well underway to accommodate the demand for additional space, DMCC announced.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have established our position as the preferred free zone for companies looking to set up their businesses in the region by creating a trading environment in which they have everything required to grow and become a success,&#8221; said Ahmed bin Sulayem, Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, DMCC.<\/p>\n<p>DMCC\u2019s Dubai Diamond Exchange hosted 27 diamond tenders in 2018, in which AED1.205 billion (US$328 million) worth of diamonds were sold. Similarly, the DMCC\u2019s Dubai Gold and Commodities Exchange witnessed a record-breaking year, trading an aggregate 22.26 million contracts valued at AED1.744 trillion ($475 billion). DMCC Tradeflow, too, recorded a total value of AED126 billion ($35 billion), a 37 percent increase from 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dubai Multi Commodities Centre, DMCC, has welcomed 1,868 new companies to its free zone in 2018, marking a 12 percent growth compared to 2017. The construction of Uptown Dubai, DMCCs new district, is also well underway to accommodate the demand for additional space, DMCC announced. &#8220;We have established our position as the preferred free [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20674,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20672\/revisions\/20674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}