Salah Ibrahim Sharaf is a 29 years old Emirati national and son of Ibrahim Sharaf, the founder and owner of the Sharaf Group. In 1994 he passed a two months apprenticeship with Senator Lines in Bremen before he started the same year his studies at the Boston University. In 1998 he made his Bachelor of Science decree in Business Administration and joined thereafter the shipping section of the Sharaf Group. 1999/2000 he gathered a one year shipping business practice in an office in Hong Kong. 2002 he took over his present position as Director of Sharaf Travel (www.sharaftravel.com )

The Sharaf Group was established in Dubai, United Arab Emirates in 1976 by 2 enterprising brothers of UAE origin. The Group is the Landlord of the German Consulate General since many years.

The Sharaf Group has built an impeccable reputation for financial integrity, discipline and an excellent reputation in the international market for reliability, trustworthiness and product delivery.

The Sharaf Group has offices in over 50 international locations and currently employs over 1600 staffs from over 15 nationalities.

The Sharaf Group originally started its business in shipping and other related activities. Within a decade the group built an infrastructure to launch other activities and businesses with a commitment to utilizing the best resources, setting the best standards and deploying the latest in information technology as an integral part of the strategy for growth.

The services of the Sharaf Group include (Sharaf’s Website www.sharafgroup.com provides more detailed information about the activities):

Shipping	Distribution	Financial Services
Warehousing & Logistics	Information Technology	Real Estate Development
Travel & Tourism	Retail	Supply Chain Management
Speed Freight & Quick

In the shipping sector the Sharaf Group is presently setting up the shipowner company Emarat Shipping, who has ordered 13 break bulk carriers from Japan, which will subsequently be mostly time-chartered to Norwegian charterers.

A German Partner of the Sharaf Group is Senator Lines of Bremen, who are calling once a week at Khorfakkan, U.A.E. with a 2000 TEU container vessel and once a week with one container vessel each in Khorfakkan and Dubai / Jebel Ali, on which Senator Lines have a slot charter.

Another Partner is LTU, who are planning to increase their charter flights to Dubai to two flights per week (Düsseldorf – Vienna – Dubai) in 2005.