DCCI figures

UAE is Britain’s largest export market. The exports from United Kingdom to the GCC totalled more than Dh37 billion for the first nine months of 2006, a report from the Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) said. The UAE was Britain's largest export market, accounting for Dh20.7bn of this, while Saudi Arabia was second with Dh8.57bn.Motorists who do not yield to emergency vehicles will face strict action, warned the Civil Defence. Brigadier Rashid Thani Al Matroushi, Director of Dubai Civil Defence, said not yielding to fire engines and other emergency vehicles hinders rescue operations and costs tens of millions of dirhams which are invested to reduce the response time. "The authorities concerned will take strict action to check the lack of cooperation by some motorists who do not realise the losses they are causing,"

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Dubai will be the world's safest city by 2010, when a "smart system" project to be established over the next two years will protect 100,000 establishments, a civil defence official said.The project depends on an electronic monitoring system on every building that will trigger the fire extinguishers and report accidents, once they happen, via satellites linked to the civil defence operations room.So far, 540 buildings, 1,500 houses and 390 flats in two Dubai Marina have the smart system. There will be some 4,600 installations of this kind, in more than 8,000 buildings, including apartment towers, said the official.Direct alarm systems are obligatory for all categories of buildings, whether new or old, and they will be installed provided the basic electronic infrastructure is available.