Eisa Al Hammadi, (left) QPMC Chief Executive Officer, and Marcel Van Bouwel, General Manager of Rent-A-Port, signing the contract in the presence of Sheikh Khalifa bin Jassim Al Thani and Christophe Payot, Ambassador of Belgium, in Doha yesterday. Pic:Ba
Qatar Primary Material Company (QPMC) and Rent-A-Port, a Belgian engineering firm that specializes in marine infrastructures development, yesterday signed a contract at the ceremony to announce the Bulk Material Handling System (BMHS) operational strategy.
The BMHS is a mega-scale project realized as part of the a national vision.
The contract agreement was signed by Eisa Al Hammadi, CEO of QPMC, and Marcel Van Bouwel, General Manager at Rent-A-Port, for awarding the operation of the bulk material handling facility developed at a huge investment of QR1.6bn.
“The port facility located in Mesaieed has deployed cutting-edge technologies which has improved the efficiency of the port, including the unloading and discharging capacity of primary material (gabbro) by 80 percent,” Ahmed Abdulla Al Suwaidi, Acting Operations Director at QPMC told The Peninsula on the sidelines of the event.
Commenting about the BMHS operational strategy, he said that there are eight key advantages of the system, which include capacity enhancement, reducing waiting time of the vessels, providing free-storage facilities to clients for up to 21 days, minimizing malfunctioning and possible losses of materials.
