Rashid Yachts & Marina is Emaar's waterfront community inside Mina Rashid (Port Rashid), Dubai's original port, opened in 1972. Cargo moved to Jebel Ali by March 2018, but DP World still runs a cargo and RoRo terminal, a coastal terminal and the Hamdan bin Mohammed Cruise Terminal on the same estate. Emaar publishes 400 wet berths for yachts to 100 metres, six district parks and a retail promenade, and lists nineteen residential projects here from AED 2,112,888. There is no Metro station inside it.
Rashid Yachts & Marina is Emaar’s residential address inside Mina Rashid — the port Dubai built first, in 1972, and still runs. Hold on to that while you read anything written about the place: the marina, the promenade and the nineteen Emaar towers share an estate with a DP World cargo terminal and the world’s largest covered cruise terminal.
The address is a working port, not a former one
Port Rashid opened in 1972, named after Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum. By 1978 it had 35 berths, five of them able to take the largest container ships of the day, and it eventually ran nine gantry cranes at a depth of 13 metres. Dubai announced the redevelopment in January 2008 and moved cargo operations to Jebel Ali by the end of March 2018. That is where the “decommissioned port” line in most marketing comes from, and it is only half right.
DP World’s own operations page still lists Mina Rashid with a cargo and RoRo terminal of 15 berths and 2,757 metres of quay at 10.5 metres depth, a coastal terminal of 5 berths and 900 metres of quay, and the Hamdan bin Mohammed Cruise Terminal — which it calls the world’s biggest single covered cruise terminal, able to take seven mega-cruise vessels or 27,000 passengers at once. Mina Rashid has homeported since 2007 and handles roughly a million cruise passengers a year.
None of that is a reason not to buy here. It is a reason to establish which way your tower faces, and what a peak cruise-season morning does to Al Mina Street, before paying a marina premium.
430 berths in 2019, 400 today
DP World and Emaar launched the AED 25 billion Mina Rashid masterplan in 2019 with 430 wet berths, a floating yacht club, what was billed as Dubai’s longest swimming pool, a retail destination called The Dubai Mall by Sea, and the QE2 as the landmark — thirteen decks, moored since 26 November 2008 and open as a floating hotel since 18 April 2018.
Emaar’s community page today publishes 400 wet berths, yachts up to 100 metres, a floating yacht club, six interconnected district parks and a retail and dining promenade. The longest pool and The Dubai Mall by Sea are not on it.
And the 430 figure has not gone away. Emaar’s own brochure for Fior 1, issued in February 2026, describes the marina as “430 wet berths accommodating vessels up to 100 metres” — the launch number, still in current sales material, while the community page carries 400. Two Emaar documents, both live, thirty berths apart. It is a small difference and an instructive one: berth count is exactly the figure a marina premium is anchored on. Ask which number is contractual, and how many berths are actually in the water.
Nineteen launches, one developer, one address
Emaar lists nineteen residential projects here: Seagate, Seascape, Sunridge, Clearpoint, Bayline, Avonlea, Ocean Point, Ocean Star, Marina Views, Ocean Cove, Porto View, Pier Point, Marina Place 1 and 2, Baystar by Vida, Sera 1 and 2, Aurea and Fior 1. The community page opens from AED 2,112,888.
That concentration is the resale risk here, and it is structural rather than a matter of opinion. When you come to sell a two-bedroom at Rashid Yachts & Marina, the competing product is very likely the same developer’s next tower on the same water, sold new, with a construction-linked payment plan and no transfer friction. An individual seller cannot match those terms. If you intend to exit before handover, price that in; if you intend to hold and rent, you are in a different position.
Roads finished, Metro not planned
Unusually for a Dubai waterfront, the infrastructure story here is in the past tense. The RTA completed all phases of the Al Shindagha Corridor on the Bur Dubai side on 11 May 2025, opening the fifth and final bridge at the Sheikh Rashid Road and Al Mina Street intersection — the junction at the port’s door. The corridor runs 13km across Sheikh Rashid Road, Al Mina Street, Al Khaleej Street and Cairo Street with 18km of bridges and tunnels, and lifts capacity from 6,400 to 24,000 vehicles an hour. The RTA puts the completed phases at 12 minutes against 80 before, and names Port Rashid among the developments served. The Al Khaleej Street tunnel, 1,650 metres, was about 30 per cent complete at that announcement.
There is no Metro station inside the development and none announced. The nearest is Al Ghubaiba on the Green Line, in Al Shindagha, open since 9 September 2011. We have not measured tower to platform, and you should — on foot, in summer — before treating it as walkable.
What we could not verify
- Whether 400 or 430 wet berths is the contractual figure, and how many are built and in the water today.
- Whether Dubai’s longest swimming pool and The Dubai Mall by Sea are still in the masterplan or have been dropped.
- Handover dates for any of the nineteen projects. Emaar’s community and project pages publish prices, not dates.
- How close the residential plots sit to the live cargo and RoRo quays, and what the cruise calendar does to traffic on Al Mina Street.
- Walking distance and time from each tower to Al Ghubaiba station.
Questions buyers ask
Is Port Rashid still a working port?
Yes. Cargo operations moved to Jebel Ali by the end of March 2018, which is why marketing calls it decommissioned, but DP World still lists Mina Rashid with a cargo and RoRo terminal of 15 berths and 2,757 metres of quay, a coastal terminal of 5 berths, and the Hamdan bin Mohammed Cruise Terminal – the largest single covered cruise terminal in the world, able to take seven mega-cruise ships or 27,000 passengers at once. It has homeported since 2007 and handles roughly a million cruise passengers a year.
How many berths does the marina have?
Emaar publishes 400 wet berths for yachts up to 100 metres. The 2019 DP World and Emaar launch published 430. We do not know which figure is contractual, or how many berths are built and in the water today. Ask for that in writing before paying a marina premium.
Is Rashid Yachts & Marina on the Metro?
No. There is no station inside the development and none has been announced. The nearest is Al Ghubaiba on the Green Line, in Al Shindagha, open since 9 September 2011. We have not measured the walk from any tower, and the route crosses port roads built for freight and cruise coaches.
Who is building here?
Emaar, on a masterplan launched with DP World in 2019 at AED 25 billion. Emaar lists nineteen residential projects at this address, from Seagate through to Fior 1, opening from AED 2,112,888. That single-seller concentration is the main resale consideration: your future buyer can usually buy the same developer new, on a payment plan.
What happened to the longest swimming pool and The Dubai Mall by Sea?
Both were headline features of the 2019 launch. Neither appears on Emaar current community page, which describes six interconnected district parks, a floating yacht club and a retail and dining promenade. We could not confirm whether they were dropped or resequenced, so we do not repeat them as facts.
Has the road access actually improved?
Yes, and unusually it is already built rather than promised. The RTA completed all phases of the Al Shindagha Corridor on the Bur Dubai side on 11 May 2025, opening the fifth and final bridge at the Sheikh Rashid Road and Al Mina Street junction. The corridor spans 13km with 18km of bridges and tunnels and raises capacity from 6,400 to 24,000 vehicles an hour; the RTA names Port Rashid among the developments served.
Last reviewed 7 September 2026 · How we verify
