The new company, employing more than 160 personnel, will offer diverse services to shipping companies calling the emirate. It is split into five core business units: pilotage, harbour towage, mooring and allied services, vessel traffic services, and aids to navigation. ADPC Marine Services will initially operate a fleet of six tugs, four pilot boats, six speedboats, and one buoy maintenance boat.
Hamad Al Maghrabi, general manager of ADPC Marine Services (pictured), commented that with trade in and out of Abu Dhabi increasing all the time – especially following the opening of the new Khalifa port - a “professional marine services company” was needed to offer “world class service and add value to the emirate’s growing list of shipping lines”.
“With more than US$36 billion invested into port transportation in the Gulf’s key maritime hubs, the region is becoming an anchor for both sea and airborne trade, in its capacity as a crucial link in the economic chain that joins East and West,” commented Chris Hayman, chairman of Seatrade. organiser of the WPTS event.
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