Introducing UVA

UVA is a technology company focused on ride-hailing. It’s a brand that is community driven and honest, with driver welfare at the forefront of everything we do.

We recognise that the ride-hailing industry has been fraught with false promises and has developed a false economy by creating unmanageable expectations.

Traditional long-standing businesses, private hire operators, have been resilient to an evolving industry and remained strong with local communities at the heart of their success.

UVA is partnering with local fleets and drivers to provide a local service that will ‘Be Global and Act Local’.

A huge part of our philosophy is to remain very much a localized company that employs and operates locally to provide the best service, in your area, for you!

With a strong driver focus, UVA driver partners will choose to work with UVA however and whenever they want, on their terms with real benefits being made available to them.

These benefits include holiday pay, sick pay, mental health support, automated accounting services, and integrated insurance. Safety as a Standard training will provide many upskilling opportunities with first aid and customer service qualifications being some of the examples of what will be available to all driver partners. All the data collected by our powerful solution will be shared with the local government to help build the future transport infrastructure supporting electrification, connected vehicles, and transport efficiencies for the future.

UVA will evolve and revolutionize the ride-hailing industry promoting a future in which all professional drivers will be given the identity they deserve.

UVA is providing the main ABES transport service

The Chamber’s current registered members exceed 79,000 and are represented in the general assembly of the KCCI. The general assembly elects 24 members of the KCCI Board of Directors to each serve for four years, half of whose members are elected every two years.

Subscriptions and authentication fees are the main sources of income for the Chamber. The President of the KCCI and its Board Members are considered to be engaged in voluntary public service.

The Chamber acts as a consultative body in all economic affairs in the country.

The KCCI has various departments that deal with different activities of the Chamber. These include a commercial arbitration centre dealing with important arbitration issues that involve KCCI members; a business centre; a commercial relations department; an economic studies department that produces Kuwait economic briefs; a foreign relations department, among others.

Business Centre

Services that the business centre provides:

• Foreign trade statistics.

• Most important laws and regulations governing trade in the State of Kuwait.

• A model agency agreement in Arabic and English.

• Receives industrial and commercial complaints.

• A Kuwait specifications and standards directory.

• Trade offers and opportunities.

• International tenders (special specifications and conditions and date of these tenders).

• Information about conference and seminars inside and outside Kuwait.

• Handling commercial enquiries regarding Kuwaiti and foreign companies.

• Issues monthly magazine, The Kuwaiti Economist as well as the Chamber’s annual report.

• Economic information

• Details of trade delegations.

• Training courses and workshops.

• Contact details of Kuwaiti companies and establishments registered with the KCCI.

• Details of Kuwait’s Commercial Conciliation and Arbitration System.

Commercial Relations Department

The Commercial Relations Department seeks to provide the best commercial services through guiding and advising the Kuwaiti business sector.

The department’s goals are:

• Cooperating with government entities to promote Kuwait’s exports.

• Seeking to improve the services of Kuwait’s ports and border crossings (Sea-Land-Air)

• Working to create a suitable environment for businesses in cooperation with all government entities.

• Seeking to remove any obstacles or difficulties that have a direct impact on investment and commercial operations within The State of Kuwait.

Services

• Providing information and commercial laws for members willing to invest in the member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council, GCC.

• Providing commercial regulations and laws in the State of Kuwait and the GCC countries for the members of KCCI.

• Receiving KCCI member’s complaints and work to overcome them by cooperating with the official authorities in the country.

• Liaison with Gulf Economic Organizations.

• Holding seminars and periodic meetings in cooperation with the concerned authorities in the country with the aim of educating the business sector about the laws and requirements that regulates the Kuwaiti commercial market.

• Implementation and follow-up of the recommendations of the Committee of Trade and Transport which is originated from the Board of Directors of KCCI.

The Legal Department

The services provided include:

• Considering commercial complaints forwarded by the members or foreign companies and business entities, which it tries to resolve amicably.

• Trying to solve commercial disputes referred to the Chamber in accordance with the procedures of the reconciliation and arbitration system.

• Identifying the commercial and industrial traditions in business practices.

• Issuing special introductory certificates on the basis of information held on members.

• Giving legal opinion on all incoming inquiries connected with the Chamber’s activities.

Foreign Relations Department

Within the scope of Kuwait Chamber’s endeavours to enhance economic relations and trade / investment ties between the Kuwaiti private sector and its counterparts from all over the world, the Foreign Relations Department plays an important role in achieving this objective by accomplishing many tasks, such as: organizing business meetings for the visiting trade delegations with Kuwaiti businessmen, sending / receiving correspondences and answering all kinds of trade enquiries, as well as preparing countries economic reports and bilateral trade statistics of the Kuwaiti private sector with the others worldwide.

The KCCI Foreign Relations Department, in collaboration with other departments, plays an important role in the Foreign Joint Committees organized by the Kuwait Government (such as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Ministry of Finance). Its staff participate in the committee meetings and follow-up on their recommendations, as well as prepare for upcoming meetings through proposing or following-up on the topics of the same interest with Private sector representatives from other countries.

WHY JOIN THE ABCC?

The ABCC is dedicated to serving businesses whether they are located in the UK or operating from any Arab country. With decades of experience, the chamber offers expert advice on how to do business in the Arab markets.

Joining the ABCC is a strategic decision which helps corporate entities gain solid foothold in the Arab region and United Kingdom with minimum time and effort.

The Chamber is very widely recognised at the highest levels in government and business for its work and achievements. In the delivery of its professional services, it cooperates closely on a daily basis with official organisations, the Arab Embassies in London and with key government institutions in Britain such as the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and official trade bodies such as The Department for International Trade (DIT).

As they increasingly come to realise the value of what the Chamber can do for them, new companies are joining our membership and making use of our set of bespoke benefits and valuable services, such as:

• Discounted rates on document services

• Free access to our updated insights and publications

• Venue hire at preferential rates

• Visa, translation services and research at preferential rates

• Business networking opportunities

• Discounted fees for ABCC’s events