Dubai is the center and the future of the logistic world. Its located on a very strategic place between China and Pakistan and is the gate to Africa. Decades of heavy infrastructure investment built what is today one of the world’s busiest ports at Jebel Ali, and the world’s most transited airport. The increasingly populous and built-up corridor connecting Abu Dhabi and Dubai have inspired many to refer to this core axis as “Abu Dubai,” the unoffi cial capital of the entire Middle East. In time, all seven emirates – and all the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries – will be linked by a coastal high-speed rail network. Huge real estate projects, central geography, and reconciliation with its fraternal capital Abu Dhabi made Dubai resilient to the crisis in ways almost every global analyst missed.