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Season 16 Winner

DP World's
New Digital Gateway
for Global Trade

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DP World, a global leader handling over 10% of world trade, faced significant fragmentation across brands, regions, services, and digital offerings, which made scaling and growth challenging. To unify its digital ecosystem and better serve its global audience, DP World partnered with Horizontal Digital to implement an intelligent, composable platform powered by Sitecore. This transformation was designed to deliver customer-focused digital outcomes, ensure information relevancy, and establish a content operations model that supports rapid speed-to-market. The solution leverages Sitecore XM Cloud for cloud-native scalability and fast content deployment, Sitecore Content Hub to centralize and streamline asset management and localization, Sitecore Personalize for AI-driven, real-time personalization, and Sitecore Search to improve discoverability with advanced AI-powered search capabilities. Through this approach, Horizontal Digital is enabling DP World to scale, innovate, and deliver consistent, high-quality experiences across global operations.

The result is a seamless, personalized user experience tailored to a diverse, global audience across 75 countries and multiple languages. The platform balances global brand consistency with local relevance, empowering regional teams to deliver localized content without sacrificing governance or agility.

Users now benefit from intuitive navigation, multi-device optimization, and dynamic content that adapts based on behavior, preferences, and location—making complex logistics and trade information more accessible.

Technically robust and performance-optimized, the site significantly reduces operational overhead, cuts costs by consolidating infrastructure, and boosts engagement through smarter content delivery.

DP World’s digital overhaul sets a benchmark in logistics, showcasing how innovation, AI, and composable architectures can transform a titan of global trade into a future-ready, customer-centric powerhouse.

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