Dubai Municipality to launch www.usedcars.ae

The features of the new website, to be launched by the end of February, was detailed in a meeting the Municipality officials held with the shop owners in the Used Car Complex on Saturday.

The meeting, participated by 40 shop owners in the Used Car Complex, was convened by Abdul Rahman Al Jaziri, Director of Markets Department. Khalifa Abdullah Hareb, Head of Markets Section also addressed the meeting, which was aimed at enhancing the used car trade activities in the emirate.

Al Jaziri told the traders that Qassim Sultan, Director General was keen to develop the complex further by providing more facilities for the customers, as the used car trade is a vital and influential sector.

He said the future plans of the department for the Used Car Complex include addition of more promotional and recreational aspects.

Al Jaziri said the complex would be participating in the international car exhibitions starting with the Dubai International Motor Show. In addition to this, the complex will also take part in different festivals such as the Dubai Shopping Festival and the Dubai Summer Surprises.

The Information Technology Department was represented in the meeting by Hussam Ahmed Hashim, who is the project manager of the website, Samar Mahmoud Ibrahim and Mustafa Mohammed Mustafa Nassaar.

Explaining the features of the website Hashim said the website will include general information about the complex, the services provided by the complex such as vehicle inspection, registration, banks and finances, provision for publishing advertisements about used cars, a powerful search engine that can search the details of the cars such as range of the prices and year of making, and the online auction service that will provide details about the cars to be auctioned.

Al Jaziri said that in the meeting the shop owners aired their views regarding the problems they were currently facing in the complex.

The Municipality had sought their opinions, ideas, advices and suggestions regarding further enhancing the work in the complex, he said.

"We had briefed them about our plans to further expand the complex. We wanted to get their responses before embarking on the expansion project," said Al Jaziri.

As the Planning and Surveying Department was also involved in the expansion project, Eng. Mustafa Habib from the Planning and Surveying Department also attended the meeting. He explained the plans for the expansion of the Used Car Complex to the shop owners. The new project will include constructing new showrooms in the complex.

The shop owners also agreed to attend another meeting to discuss the issues further.