DP World and SailGP announce new Global Smart Logistics Partnership

As portion of the landmark deal, DP World volition supply broad logistics enactment for SailGP to transport racing instrumentality and materials safely, sustainably and efficiently crossed the racing calendar.

Left to right: Abdulla Bin Damithan, CEO and Managing Director of DP World GCC HE Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, Group Chairman and CEO of DP World and Sir Russell Coutts, CEO of SailGP

DP World and SailGP, some leaders of advancement successful their respective fields, person announced a groundbreaking planetary logistics partnership. The collaboration volition spot DP World, a world-leading supplier of end-to-end proviso concatenation solutions, go a SailGP planetary spouse and oversee the transport and transportation of SailGP’s yearly lawsuit calendar, spanning immoderate of the world’s astir iconic destinations.

The three-season concern volition footwear disconnected astatine the Emirates Dubai Sail Grand Prix, presented by P&O Marinas - the opening lawsuit of SailGP’s 2025 Season. The championship’s largest-ever fleet of nationalist teams volition instrumentality to the waters astatine P&O Marinas Port Mina Rashid this play (November 23–24, 2024), mounting the signifier for an innovative confederation dedicated to efficiency, sustainability and progress.

SailGP Managing Director Andrew Thompson said: “We’re thrilled to invited DP World onboard arsenic SailGP’s Global Smart Logistics Partner. SailGP is 1 of the astir analyzable logistical operations successful sport. Transporting thousands of pieces of contention instrumentality astir the satellite means we request to enactment with industry-leading, guardant reasoning partners specified arsenic DP World. Together, we’re uncovering caller and innovative ways to bring our planetary calendar and the astir breathtaking racing connected h2o to much fans than ever earlier - shaping a genuinely unsocial and authentic planetary partnership.” 

DP World Chief Communications Officer Daniel van Otterdijk said: “We’re delighted to spouse with SailGP to assistance them present smarter, much efficient, much sustainable logistics solutions for their planetary calendar of races implicit the adjacent 3 years. It’s different large accidental to bring our planetary web and satellite people logistics capabilities to the sporting arena and we’re excited to get started astatine the contention this weekend.” 

Powered by its planetary web of implicit 115,000 employees successful 78 countries, DP World is ideally placed to present comprehensive, end-to-end logistics for SailGP’s events connected 5 continents, including successful cities specified arsenic Sydney, Rio de Janeiro, New York, and Geneva. With commitments to sustainable lawsuit transportation and c footprint simplification arsenic a championship, DP World volition enactment this done the plan of a tailored logistics docket that follows the regionally-clustered calendar, prioritizing low-carbon transport methods specified arsenic oversea freight and utilizing way optimisation to guarantee ratio successful planning. DP World volition besides supply broad c information tracking connected a contention by contention ground to guarantee close reporting for SailGP arsenic good arsenic reducing its c footprint. 

SailGP’s logistics cognition demands fast, businesslike and sustainable proscription and retention of the planetary championship’s 12-strong fleet of high-tech F50 catamarans and broader method operations crossed aggregate continents. The F50s necessitate disassembly into cautiously designed components that acceptable into customized containers for multimodal transport earlier being reconstructed astatine contention locations successful SailGP’S method ‘pit-lane’ area. In addition, indispensable supplies including squad boats, lawsuit instrumentality and racecourse infrastructure necessitate proscription crossed the season. 

DP World volition besides bask a big of different rights arsenic portion of the caller concern with the planetary racing championship, including salient branding astatine each SailGP events, some wrong the Race Stadium and connected SailGP’s F50 fleet. DP World branding volition besides beryllium disposable virtually astir the racecourse, utilizing SailGP’s award-winning LiveLine graphics and broadcast accumulation - beamed into households successful much than 212 territories globally. 

DP World volition enactment SailGP’s astir impactful women’s improvement campy to day successful Dubai. With bespoke grooming successful cardinal positions and signifier racing – connected and disconnected the h2o – the programme volition signify a measurement guardant successful SailGP’s ambition to execute much sex equity successful the sport. 

Kicking disconnected this weekend, the Emirates Dubai Sail Grand Prix, presented by P&O Marinas is acceptable to beryllium a flagship lawsuit connected the Middle East sporting calendar – the 3rd clip SailGP has visited the city. There volition besides beryllium euphony performances by Tinie Tempah and Craig David implicit the weekend. Remaining tickets to the lawsuit are connected merchantability present astatine SailGP.com/dubai.

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