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Discussing the mechanism of cooperation between the sectors operating in the port of Hodeida and the World Food Program

A meeting in the port of Hodeida, Tuesday 28-2-1443 AH corresponding to 10-5-2021 AD, chaired by the Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Yemeni Red Sea Ports Corporation, Engineer Yahya Abbas Sharaf El-Din, discussed the mechanism of coordination and joint cooperation between the sectors operating in the port and the World Food Program.

The meeting was reviewed in the presence of the program’s logistic director Christian Forter, directors of the Standards, Metrology and Quality Organization, Engineer Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Dawla, Port Customs, Abdullah Muhammad Habib, and the Plant Quarantine Station, Engineer Muhammad Rasim and Plant Protection at the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation, Engineer Hilal Muhammad Al-Mashari, and Head of the Department of Pests of Stores and Grain, Engineer Abdul Salam Abu Bakr, the activity of importing the program through the port. During the current year, and the problems facing the sectors operating in the port with regard to being brought in from aid and foodstuffs unfit for human consumption.

The meeting stressed that aid is not the only solution to alleviate the tragedy created by the coalition of aggression in Yemen during the past seven years, in addition to the consequences of the economic war that the whole world sees and does not move.

The meeting called on the Food Program to pay attention to the quality and quality of foodstuffs brought in as aid and distributed to citizens to maintain their health, in addition to reconsidering the containers in which foodstuffs are shipped and the danger and environmental damage caused by corrupt materials in the port.

The meeting renewed the call for the United Nations organizations working in Yemen and all international organizations to exert more efforts to lift the siege on the port of Hodeidah to alleviate the suffering of the citizens.

At the meeting, the Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Red Sea Ports Corporation stressed the need for the World Food Program to respond quickly to the humanitarian and emergency situation in Yemen as a result of the brutal US-Saudi aggression.. He stressed the importance of the program avoiding the import of spoiled and expired materials, and the obligation to pay its storage wages, and to fulfill its commitments. In the maintenance of hangars that were agreed upon within the rehabilitation projects for port facilities.

Sharaf El-Din stressed that the Corporation and the sectors operating in the port provide all the facilities required for the food program, in a way that enables the program to implement its relief plans and interventions.

In turn, Fortier valued the facilities provided to implement the activities of the program.. He noted the importance of partnership and coordination to achieve the goals.. He considered the meeting a positive step that reflects the volume of cooperation and resolving the imbalances in the previous period.

He pointed out that the World Food Program will try, in cooperation with the relevant authorities, to deal with these problems, so that the program achieves the goals for which it works, related to contributing to the provision of food aid.

The meeting was attended by the general managers of the sidewalks and yards departments in the Corporation, Engineer Khaled Ahmed Hamid, Services and Equipment Engineer Bandar Shara, Legal Affairs Mutahar Al-Amdi, Container Terminal Captain Muhammad Al-Says, Technical Affairs, Engineer Ahmed Salem, Relationships Akram Ramdani, the office of the Vice Chairman of the Foundation’s Board of Directors, Wadih Al-Naimi, and Senior Relations Specialist Ahmed Hatem

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