New campaign looks to educate passengers and improve on-board safety
Abu Dhabi, UAE: Abu Dhabi Ports has hosted an open day to raise awareness about the need for all passengers – adults and children – to wear life jackets when on-board vessels docking at its ports. Held for the first time, the ‘Your Safety is Our Aim’ campaign will target passengers with advice and guidance designed to ensure people are familiar with wearing life jackets.
Taking place on 6 & 7th June 2015 at Delma Port and Mugharraq Port, the campaign was done in partnership with the Abu Dhabi Ports Marine Services, the Abu Dhabi Department of Transport, and the Transport Police.
The programme looks to improve the safety culture on all vessels. As part of the campaign, Abu Dhabi Ports will share safety knowledge with passengers, both regular and first-timer users, and conduct an interactive safety induction and practices session to explain the why, when, how and general importance of wearing a life jacket.
About Abu Dhabi Ports
Established in 2006, Abu Dhabi Ports’ core objective is to facilitate the diversification of the economy by stimulating trade and development. This is done by delivering high quality maritime services, supporting partners’ infrastructure projects and setting up new companies and joint ventures in the ports and logistics sectors.
The flagship state-of-the -art Khalifa Port and Khalifa Industrial Zone play a big role, supporting the diversification of the economy. Khalifa Port was inaugurated on 12/12/12 by UAE President HH Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan. The port’s semi-automated container terminal handles all of Abu Dhabi’s container traffic, after its transfer from Zayed Port, the historic port in the city centre.
Phase One of Khalifa Port has a capacity of 2.5 million TEUs and 12 million tons of general cargo. Further phases of development will occur as market demand requires. When all phases are complete, Khalifa Port will be able to handle 15 million TEUs and 35 million tons of general cargo per year.Abu Dhabi Ports manages nine commercial, logistics, community and leisure ports, and Khalifa Industrial Zone which is serving a range of logistics and manufacturing investors. Abu Dhabi Ports is boosting Abu Dhabi’s economic growth and diversification, following Abu Dhabi’s Economic Vision 2030.
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