Mr. Muhammad Tahir Lakhani Shipping is the Managing Director and Chairman of Dubai Trading Agency (DTA) in Dubai UAE and is associated with the Propeller Club of the US, UK.

1. MUHAMMAD TAHIR
LAKHANI
Managing Director and Chairman of Dubai Trading
Agency LLC in Dubai UAE

2. TAHIR LAKHANI
BIOPGRAPHY
The founder and chairman of Dubai Trading Agency LLC
(DTA) in Dubai, Mr. Muhammad Tahir Lakhani is the
global shipping leader and also a prominent part of the
Propeller Club of the US. His childhood days were also
filled with achievements in tennis. He also represented
Pakistan at the international level. He played Junior
Wimbledon and Davis Cup. Later on, he tested his fate in
the shipping business.

3. HIS CAREER IN PAKISTAN
Born on April 27, 1962, Mr. Muhammad Lakhani comes from a
reputed background in Pakistan. He always desired to fulfill his life
goal himself. He started his career in a shipyard of his friend in
Pakistan in his early 20s. He supervised the incoming and outgoing
of steel plates for 3 years with dedication. The process included
cutting the plates from vessels to sell them to the traders on-site. Mr.
Tahir Lakhani was in charge of the whole process.

4. HIS VOYAGE TO THE UK
Mr. Tahir Lakhani chose to relocate to the UK with his family
as he needed an international platform to expand his
business of ship recycling in 1999 from UAE. He explored
more business horizons to build his connections to expand
and achieve more. He started his own business of ship
recycling in the UAE named “Dubai Trading Agency LLC” in
1985. Mr. Tahir Lakhani is the MD and Chairman of DTA. He
bought three VLCC’s Adriatic tankers and delivered them to
breakers in his own country from international waters
outside the UAE. He made the biggest deal in ship
demolition back then.

5. HIS VOYAGE TO THE UK
Mr. Tahir Lakhani's business became very successful in 1997 in
the shipping industry, and he was among the leading ‘cash
buyers’ in the UAE for trading in around 100 ships per year.
Since he joined the ship recycling yard of his friend, Mr. Lakhani
started learning everything about the shipping process. He
gained ample experience in the ship recycling business in
Pakistan. Later on, he moved to Dubai and started buying and
selling old ships to the recycling yards. Mr. Tahir Lakhani
achieved UK citizenship by 2009, and he kept on visiting Dubai
to expand the scale and volume of his business.

6. KEY PROFESSIONAL AND
PERSONAL ACHIEVEMENTS
• He is a member of Port of Monaco and the Propeller Club of the US.
• He was associated with the UAE Shipping Association as the Vice Chairman
until 2019 and represented the UAE.
• He held Dubai’s first Green Recycling Conference in association with
Tradewinds, the world's leading maritime media.
• He was the first to become the ‘cash buyer’ of ships, and he was dealing in
over 100 ships every year till 1997.
• He was a tennis player in his early years, and he played Junior Wimbledon.
• He also played Davis Cup to represent Pakistan.

7. MUHAMMAD TAHIR
LAKHANI DTA CONTACT
Managing Director and Chairman of Dubai Trading
Agency LLC in Dubai UAE
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