Dubai Trade, Palm Utilities partner on ROSOOM online payment services
Mahmood Al Bastaki, Director Dubai Trade, and Yousuf Kazim, Chief Executive Officer, Palm Utilities along with other officials from Dubai Trade and Palm Utilities at the signing ceremony
An agreement signed by Mahmood Al Bastaki, Director Dubai Trade, and Yousuf Kazim, Chief Executive Officer, Palm Utilities, enables Palm Utilities to offer its clients the comprehensive online payment services available on the ROSOOM platform. The payments can be made through direct debit, e-dirham and credit cards.
This centralised e-payment gateway provides a wide range of services for customers to make online payment transactions with leading commercial establishments such as DP World, Economic Zones World, Dubai Multi Commodities Centre and Leisure Corp
Palm Utilities, which operates through its subsidiaries Palm District Cooling and Palm Water, can now offer clients direct access to ROSOOM platform through which they can make their utility bill payments online.
Mahmood Al Bastaki, Director Dubai Trade, said: “We are pleased to sign up Palm Utilities on to the portal. Their extensive network of clients will benefit from Dubai Trade’s services. This partnership expands our reach considerably and reflects the quality of our products. Our services have made very positive difference to our customers’ business.”
Yousuf Kazim, Chief Executive Officer, Palm Utilities, said:
“As a customer-focused company, providing sustainable services and committed to deliver to its customers the best of services, Palm Utilities sees this as a value-adding partnership. Customers can now access ROSOOM to make their payments anytime, 24/7 by saving time and cost, especially that PU has a number of high end projects in Dubai where our clients have direct business contacts with the companies Dubai Trade covers through its platform. ”
ROSOOM covers a number of important transactions, such as e-payment for Economic Zones World flagship Jafza, containerised bill payments for DP World, the global port operators, and payments for services by Dubai Multi Commodities Centre and Leisure Corp.
This multiple transaction platform facilitates instant settlement of bills with the companies through real time transfer of funds from the customers’ bank account. This secure single-window electronic gateway has become hugely popular in the business sector as an excellent cost-cum-time saver. Launched in March 2008, ROSOOM facilitated more than 200,000 transactions in one year, totaling an amount of Dhs135, 000,000.
Dubai Trade’s innovative concepts have grown to become a powerful trade mover in Dubai. Constant upgrading keeps its services at pace with the changes in technology. By covering the entire supply chain, Dubai Trade brings together into a single community a vast majority of companies that interact with Dubai’s ports, customs and the free zone for the purpose of trade.
Palm Utilities, through Palm Water and Palm District Cooling, provides services to many of Dubai’s landmark developments including Palm Jumeirah Trunk & Crescent, JAFZA, Jumeirah Islands, Jumeirah Lake Towers, Jumeirah Village, Discovery Gardens, Dubai Multi Commodities Centre and Ibn Battuta Shopping Mall. The company provides environment friendly water solutions for cooling requirements as well as building and operating strategically placed district cooling plant and networks.
