The $50m Dubai Flower Centre, a major new project, to be located in the Dubai Cargo Village at the airport, will establish a major new logistics hub for the floriculture and produce industries. Those involved in the project also claim it will place Dubai firmly at the centre of global trade in perishables.
The 32,000 square metre facility will be built in three phases, with an initial construction of 10,000sqm to be completed for launch in latter half of this year - a provisional date of October 1 has been mooted. Two further phases, each of 10,000sqm will be built as dictated by demand. Each part of the facility will have the capability to handle more than 150,000 tonnes of flowers and perishables.
The Flower Centre will act primarily as a logistical hub, taking advantage of Dubai's location and rapidly growing international transit connections, to provide exporters and importers with a cost-effective, high quality base to consolidate and route shipments. Significant investment is being made in innovative technologies and processes to ensure a world-class, unbroken cool chain at the facility, including the operation of refrigerated transit and the use of pre-cooling and segregated storage systems.
In addition, the Dubai Flower Centre will operate as a Free Zone, where the international floriculture industry (wholesalers, importers and exporters) can establish offices and warehouses for added-value services, including consolidation, repackaging, bouquet-making, and packaging for supermarkets. A range of additional technical and commercial services will be offered to tenants at the Flower Centre. More than 15 major international floriculture and logistics companies have already indicated their intention to locate in the facility.
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