Dubai South is a master developer of Dubai South i – Dubai’s largest single urban master development focusing on an aviation and logistics ecosystem that houses the world’s largest airport when fully operational complemented by a multi-modal transport infrastructure connecting air, land and sea.

Dubai has renamed Dubai World Central, the 145 square kilometre purpose-built city that includes Al Maktoum International Airport, as Dubai South.

Announcing the new name, Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed, the chairman of Dubai Aviation City Corporation, said that Dubai South is the emirate’s flagship urban project that will “set benchmarks for the rest of the emirate in terms of manifesting the themes of happiness as set out in Dubai Plan 2021.”

Dubai South, which was launched in 2006, is also the site of the World Expo 2020 and the biennial Dubai Airshow

The CEO of Dubai South is Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed, also the chairman of Dubai Aviation City Corporation