HE Mattar Al Tayer, Chairman of the Board and Executive Director of the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), has received at Al Wasl Hall, Dubai World Trade Center Saw Phaik Hwa, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Singaporean SMRT Corporation Ltd in the presence of Dileep Nair, the Singapore Consul in Dubai and several executives of SMRT.
The meeting discussed means of promoting cooperation and exchanging expertise between the RTA and SMRT besides exploring the potentials of enhancing mutual cooperation in future.
Al Tayer welcomed the Singaporean delegation and hailed the extensive participation of the Singaporean companies in the UITP Congress and Exhibition saying, “RTA has benefited so much from the Singaporean pioneer expertise in developing mass transit infrastructure, particularly rail projects. RTA work teams have made several visits to Singapore to review their experience in constructing and operating rail and tram systems. This cooperation has yielded the establishment of a consortium of three advertising agencies comprising, besides the Singaporean SMRT Media, Kassab Media and Wellmark Communications to plan the advertising space, carry out design works, operation and ad marketing services in 47 metro stations as well as in the rolling stock of the Red and Green Lines extending 75 km; 52 km on the Red Line and 23 km on the Green Line, in addition to footbridges, tunnels, metro track pillars, emergency exits, and moving images screens for ten years.”
Al Tayer pointed out that that the MoU covered many areas relating to RTA’s business in the field of roads, traffic, public transport, and trains in addition to training opportunities for RTA’s employees with a view to raising the abilities of the technical personnel to implement the best options for improving roads and transportation to bring them in line with world-class standards and practices.
