Borouge has conducted the partial launch of its latest packaging facility at Khalifa Port, Abu Dhabi.
The plant has been built as part of a joint agreement between Borouge and Abu Dhabi Terminals (ADT), manager and operator of Khalifa Port Container Terminal and Abu Dhabi Ports Company (ADPC).
The UAE-headquartered plastics firm has opened the Abu Dhabi facility in a bid to support and accelerate its international products exports.
“Operating our new packaging facility at Khalifa Port embodies our commitment to ensure better, safer, and faster distribution of our products, and reflects the importance of [the] advanced packaging solutions [that] Abu Dhabi Terminals has provided us,” commented Abdulaziz Alhajri, CEO of Abu Dhabi Polymers Company (Borouge).
“Khalifa Port is one of our major UAE gateways through which we export our products coming from our Ruwais petrochemical plant.
“This packaging facility will contribute to supporting our growth and enable us to further enhance our supply chain capabilities to handle the increasing volume of our products coming from the new Borouge 3 plant,” he added.
The firm is confident that the latest facility, which boasts a total capacity of 385,000 tonnes, will significantly enhance Borouge’s supply chain network.
“We are pleased to welcome the launching of [operations] at Borouge’s new packaging facility at Khalifa Port, which confirms the significant efficiency of Borouge’s supply chain business in imports and exports, as well as the availability of real opportunities to strengthen the commercial competitiveness of Borouge’s products in the markets,” said Captain Mohamed Juma Al Shamsi, CEO of ADPC.
“We consider Borouge as a strategic trade partner to us. It is a government-owned company with which Abu Dhabi Ports Company shares…objectives and strongly-linked businesses.
Packaging operations have now begun at the Khalifa Port plant, and ADT is confident that facility will prove beneficial to all stakeholders.
“We look forward to working closely with Borouge towards our shared goal of delivering world-class supply chain services to customers around the world,” explained Martjin Van De Linde, CEO of ADT.
Wilm Roels, CEO of Borouge Pte also highlighted the significant of the plant, stating: “The new packaging facility and services provided at Khalifa port will give us more flexibility to better serve our customers and achieve our business targets all over the world, in addition to the existing packaging facilities in our Ruwais plant and in our regional hubs in China and Singapore.”
