Dubai Customs’ inspection officers handled 40.7m passenger bags in 2022, an average of 111,500 bags per day.
This includes 40m pieces of baggage screened at Dubai airports and 696,000 for tourist passengers arriving on around 300 cruise ship calls to Dubai’s cruise terminals.
The figures were released by the Passenger Operations Department of Dubai Customs.
Dubai Customs statistics
Ahmed Mahboob Musabih, Director General of Dubai Customs highlighted the importance of providing optimal smoothness of passenger flows at Dubai International Airport.
Musabih emphasised the challenge of delivering high standard of customs services and procedures while ensuring the UAE borders are safe and secure.
He praised the smart systems devised by Customs inspection staff, which helped enhance passengers’ experience and increase their level of happiness with Customs service to 97.4% last year.
Passenger Operations also completed 155,000 customs declarations in 2022.
The Director General said: “This is a huge number of transactions that requires continuous improvement of our work systems coupled with highly trained staff to ease the movement of travellers through faster and more efficient inspections and clearances.
“At the same time, we are also very much focused on ensuring society protection against illegal imports and smuggling of prohibited items”.
Follow us on
