Effective efforts of the Red Sea Ports Corporation to enhance navigational activity

The Yemeni Red Sea Ports Corporation continues to mobilize its efforts and capabilities to enhance the performance of the service and technical sectors and operational capabilities for the tasks of receiving ships loaded with goods, fuel and commodities coming to the port of Hodeidah.

 

The Corporation is witnessing many activities to activate all the requirements of managing the maritime activity, in conjunction with its breakthrough opening the ports, after eight years of unjust blockade and collective punishment imposed by the countries of aggression on millions of Yemenis who are living the worst humanitarian crisis in the world.

 

The overall tasks and activities that are being implemented through all maritime sectors, departments and service facilities related to the management of port activity are directed towards keeping pace with the movement of the flow of public ships and container ships and overcoming and accelerating the procedures for unloading them, by enhancing coordination between all offices and concerned authorities.

 

The Red Sea Ports Corporation began mobilizing all its technical and administrative staff in the yards and berths of the ports, which recently received a number of ships and containers in conjunction with intensive field follow-up by the government side represented by the Minister of Transport and meetings between the leadership of the corporation, ministries, authorities and relevant higher authorities.

 

During the past weeks, the ports of “Al-Hodeidah, Salif and Ras Issa” witnessed the arrival of the ” ASMAA ” ship loaded with 3,956 tons of clinker “cement”.

And the tanker “ ALSAFA ” with a load of 29,998 tons of diesel

The ship “ ASENA ” has a cargo of 3,968 tons of edible oils.

The cargo ship “ Angelina ” also arrived, carrying about 27,175 tons of iron

The container ship carries 724 containers, as well as the arrival of the two wood and plywood ships MERCURY and  SARA SVETA carrying 12,800 tons of wood and plywood.

While iron ships NADA , golden eagle , MERCURY and BEST 8 recently docked at the docks of the port of Hodeidah, carrying 46,842 tons of iron.

Efforts recently focused, through the meeting with the mission of the UN side, on discussing the requirements for operating the ports and the agreements that have not been implemented so far in dealing with the damage and providing the bridge cranes that were destroyed by the aggression, given their importance in the work of the port of Hodeidah and other equipment and mechanisms.

The meetings and visits also focused on the facilities announced by the government for the private sector and the chambers of commerce and navigation for the entry of container ships to the port of Hodeidah, and the tasks of securing the entry of ships and linking the port community with a single window to complete and accelerate procedures for the release of goods, and to prepare yards for receiving ships.

The CEO of the Red Sea Ports Corporation, Captain Muhammad Abu Bakr bin Ishaq, explained that efforts are currently focused on raising the level of performance of the operational capacities of the corporation’s departments and facilities and the port of Hodeidah, and implementing the outcomes of the meetings with the leadership of the Ministry of Transport and the Chargé d’Affaires of the Economic Committee.

He stated that the corporation’s management is making extensive efforts to accelerate the work of the one-stop-shop project, establish a unified database for port services, and enable ships to unload their cargo in a short time, translating directives to grant shipping companies and merchants the necessary facilities.

Ishaq renewed the keenness of the leadership of the Ministry of Transport, the Red Sea Ports Corporation and the port community to provide all the necessary facilities and services for docking, unloading, inspecting, inspecting and clearing ships in the shortest possible time, in accordance with the applicable regulations and procedures.

Captain Ishaq confirmed that work in receiving ships and activating the operation of the services of the Red Sea Ports Corporation is currently being done by doubling shifts and increasing working hours, changing the performance pattern of the functions of the concerned departments and mobilizing their efforts to implement responsibilities to serve the requirements of the current stage.

He mentioned that among the works that accompany the activity of receiving and unloading ships, diligent field follow-up carried out by the Corporation’s leadership to complete the repair and maintenance of some equipment according to the available capabilities, including the landing of the “Hajjah” launch from the pontoon slide in the port of Hodeidah after completing the work of the first phase of its maintenance.

The head of the Red Sea Ports Corporation also noted the continuation of aspects of coordination between the government and the relevant authorities to ensure the achievement of positive indicators in restoring navigational activity to what it was to alleviate the suffering of the Yemeni people and work to overcome the repercussions of the largest humanitarian disaster in the world confirmed by UN reports.

He praised the role of the Revolutionary Leadership, the Supreme Political Council, the Salvation Government, and the leadership of the Ministry of Transport, and their keenness to follow up on the conditions and challenges of work in the Ports Corporation, and to address a number of obstacles and restrictions imposed by the blockade, aggression, and the systematic targeting of Red Sea port services.

Captain Mohammed Ishaq also praised the efforts of the ship loading and unloading workers, and port workers, in adhering to the instructions and implementing the procedures for exempting berth rental fees for 21 days, and the directives of the Economic Committee in exempting 49 percent of the customs of incoming goods and commodities.

In order to enhance the movement of entry of ships and the efforts of the state and the institution, the Syndicate Committee of the owners and drivers of heavy transport trucks in Hodeidah expressed, in a statement, its readiness and readiness to meet the requests for transporting goods arriving at the docks of the Red Sea ports and deporting them to the places of importers and traders without delay.