Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) and the Ministry of Trade and Superior Expertise have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aimed toward coordinating joint initiatives and initiatives of mutual curiosity between the UAE’s industrial ecosystem and Dubai’s transport and infrastructure ecosystem. The MoU helps the targets of the Make it within the Emirates initiative, significantly within the fields of electrical mobility and autonomous transport, whereas creating high quality funding alternatives by the adoption of the Ministry’s Nationwide In-Nation Worth (ICV) Programme.
Below the MoU, the 2 events will collaborate to boost technological capabilities by offering RTA with entry to the Ministry’s specialised coaching programmes in synthetic intelligence and superior applied sciences. This cooperation helps RTA’s efforts to develop the transport and logistics sector and strengthens the readiness of its workforce to undertake future-oriented options.
The MoU was signed by His Excellency Osama Amir Fadhel, Assistant Undersecretary for the Industrial Accelerators Sector on the Ministry of Trade and Superior Expertise, and Mohammed Al Mudharreb, CEO of the Company Expertise Assist Providers Sector at RTA, throughout RTA’s participation in GITEX International 2025, held on the Dubai World Commerce Centre from 13 to 17 October.
Each events agreed to coordinate initiatives and initiatives of mutual curiosity, discover alternatives to empower the nationwide industrial sector by the event of requirements and technical laws in good mobility, and spotlight the Ministry’s programmes — significantly the Make it within the Emirates initiative.
Nationwide In-Nation Worth
His Excellency Osama Amir Fadhel affirmed that the partnership with RTA displays the Ministry’s dedication to its pivotal function in driving sustainable industrial improvement in help of the Nationwide Technique for Trade and Superior Expertise (Operation 300bn) and the Make it within the Emirates initiative.
He acknowledged: “This partnership will assist help nationwide merchandise within the transport sector and advance technological transformation by incentivising corporations by the Ministry’s initiatives, such because the UAE and International Begin-up Problem and the International Begin-up Alternate Programme, providing alternatives for growing and deploying their applied sciences within the UAE in collaboration with industrial companions.”
“The partnership, by collaboration on the Expertise Transformation Programme and Trade 4.0 initiatives, will improve the change of experience in rising applied sciences akin to robotics, automation, drones, and digital twin functions — supporting the event and adoption of superior applied sciences within the industrial sector.”
Unifying efforts
Mohammed Al Mudharreb, CEO of Company Expertise Assist Providers Sector at RTA, acknowledged: “This partnership with the Ministry of Trade and Superior Expertise displays the shared dedication of each entities to allow and advance the nationwide industrial sector by unifying efforts between Dubai’s transport and infrastructure ecosystem and the UAE’s industrial ecosystem. This cooperation contributes to enhancing operational effectivity, reinforcing security and high quality requirements, and supporting the expansion and empowerment of nationwide industries.”
“The MoU helps RTA’s imaginative and prescient and mission to attain The World Chief in Seamless and Sustainable Mobility, whereas advancing nationwide targets targeted on constructing a robust knowledge-based economic system and empowering Emirati expertise to drive sustainable industrial development.”
The MoU additionally gives for the event of incentive packages inside RTA’s providers to allow stakeholders — together with factories and industrial institutions — to function with better effectivity and suppleness. It additional promotes native content material by adopting the Nationwide ICV Programme and attracting industrial investments that contribute to strengthening and rising nationwide industries.
The MoU additionally emphasises cooperation in growing technological capabilities by the Ministry’s specialised coaching programmes in synthetic intelligence and superior applied sciences. It helps sustainability and the round economic system by sensible initiatives and initiatives akin to recycling electrical car batteries, remanufacturing spare elements, adopting inexperienced procurement insurance policies, and decreasing emissions.
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