Dubai Metro stations Khalid bin Waleed, Jebel Ali renamed

The Roads & Transport Authority (RTA) announced on Monday that two Dubai Metro stations will be renamed after signing rights deal with Burjuman Center and Danube Group.

Khalid bin Al Waleed Station will be renamed as Burjuman Center while Jebel Ali Industrial Station will be renamed as Danube Group station.

This was announced at a press conference in Dubai on Monday. Attending the event were the CEO of Rail Agency Adnan Al Hammadi, CEO of Corporate Technical Support Services Sector Abdullah Al Madani, Chairman of Burjuman Center Majid Saif Al Ghurair, and the Chairman of Danube Group Rizwan Sajan, in addition to several other concerned parties.

“The RTA is keen on enabling various companies, be it public or private, to take part in the Metro Stations Naming Rights Project as it contributes to increasing the national and international companies' brand awareness and reinforcing their positioning in Dubai Emirate besides playing a bigger and more prominent role in upgrading the metro project,” said Al Hammadi.

“Adding Burjuman Center (to take the name of Khalid bin Al Waleed Station), and Danube Group (to take the name of Jebel Ali Industrial Station), to the lineup of beneficiaries of the Metro Stations Naming Rights Project, is a huge plus for us as it speaks volumes of the Project’s success. It also manifests the confidence pinned by partners in the Project as a unique platform for showcasing Dubai as an advanced global destination. Moreover, these partnerships are capable of nurturing long-term investment potentials, adding that in future more partnerships will be unveiled to form a key part of the Project,” he continued.

“The Dubai Metro Stations Naming Rights Project is the first of its kind worldwide and is the world’s first revenue model for public transport infrastructure; which has now been emulated by other cosmopolitan cities such as Chicago, Boston, Houston, London, Delhi-Gurgaon, Philadelphia, Montreal, and Rio de Janeiro among others,” continued Al Hammadi.

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