Dubai Harbour Marinas 1st Worldwide to Receive 3 Simultaneous Accreditations from the Yacht Harbour Association

Amongst the celebrated awards contains the coveted Gold Anchor, a recognition awarded to pick out marinas all over the world for elevating requirements and offering customer-centric companies.

Dubai Harbour is the proud recipient of three prestigious accreditations from The Yacht Harbour Affiliation, together with the coveted Gold Anchor award – a reputable measure of marina high quality; alongside famend titles for Clear Marinas and Tremendous Yacht Prepared, a primary within the area. The area’s largest marina achieved an unprecedented feat of securing all three accreditations, not solely on its very first attempt, however concurrently, marking a world-first achievement underneath The Yacht Harbour Affiliation (TYHA) and demonstrating the excessive requirements of marina excellence at Dubai Harbour.

The worldwide marina accreditations awarded by The Yacht Harbour Affiliation have been a trusted trade analysis, based mostly upon the idea that the marina trade wants a customer-centric focus for marina companies and leisure boating to develop and prosper. To reach on the accreditation, a marina is evaluated in opposition to six key analysis classes together with Ambiance, Buyer Service and Environmental, amongst others.

The celebrated flags of recognition had been offered by Jon White, Basic Supervisor of The Yacht Harbour Affiliation to Dubai Harbour in a particular ceremony.

“Once we first conceptualised Dubai Harbour years in the past, our intention was to design and ship a seafront residential district that rekindled Dubai’s connection to the ocean and acted as a gateway for extraordinary maritime way of life and journeys. With world-class amenities and companies, Dubai Harbour Marinas is offering a full dwelling port answer enabling native and worldwide boat homeowners, passengers and crew to take pleasure in Dubai’s spectacular cruising grounds.  We want to thank The Yacht Harbour Affiliation for this recognition and our Dubai Harbour Marinas groups for his or her unwavering dedication to yachting excellence rewarded with these three prestigious accreditations,” mentioned Abdulla Binhabtoor, Chief Portfolio Administration Officer at Shamal Holding, Proprietor and Curator of Dubai Harbour.

Jon White, Basic Supervisor of The Yacht Harbour Affiliation added;“The 5 Gold Anchor, Superyacht Prepared and Clear Marina awards that I’m happy to have offered to the Dubai Harbour Marinas group, are designed to advise and educate with the target of elevating requirements throughout the marina trade and aiding boaters of their selection of marina.

To realize any one among these accreditations represents a big problem; to be awarded all three directly is very spectacular. It is a nice credit score to the Dubai Harbour Marinas group who’re robust advocates of such accreditations and long-standing Licensed Marina Managers, spearheaded by Director – Marinas Wayne Shepherd (CMM). My congratulations go to all who contributed to this glorious achievement”.

Dubai Harbour is the area’s largest marina, that includes near 700 berths that may accommodate yachts as much as 160m in size, along with a devoted superyacht marina. Providing a fuelling station able to taking vessels as much as 50m, in addition to offering visitors and crew with a full dwelling port answer in one of many world’s most spectacular cruising grounds, Dubai Harbour Marinas allows direct entry to the open waters of the Arabian Gulf with ample water depths and no air draught limits.

As a part of its dedication to providing a premier and multifaceted seafront expertise, Dubai Harbour is welcoming a brand new period of inexperienced innovation, lately saying the introduction of the UAE’s first ever floating waste collector referred to as PixieDrone. Dubai Harbour additionally has a devoted sustainability committee, ‘Seaguardians’, who guarantee sustainable practices are adopted throughout all operations, educating boat homeowners on environmentally pleasant initiatives and driving higher ESG consciousness for the trade.

Later this month, Dubai Harbour will host the Dubai Worldwide Boat Present for the third consecutive 12 months, happening from twenty eighth February – third March 2024.