Headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Shipping Company (UASC) has one of the youngest container fleets currently in the ocean freight market as well as one of the largest in the Middle East. Founded in 1976 jointly by six shareholding Arab states of the Persian Gulf (Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and UAE), the company has almost 200 offices around the world and covers approximately 240 ports and destinations worldwide.