Qatar-based Gulf Warehousing Company (GWC), a leading logistics provider, recently presented an award to Al Bader Construction & Steel Works for completing “One Million Man Hours without Lost Time Injury” at a GWC construction site.

The feat was completed between September 1 and February 22, at GWC’s Bu Sulba Warehousing Park construction site, said a statement from the company.

During this period, Al Bader completed the levelling and compacting of the site and began working on the foundations and superstructures for the warehousing park, it added.

The site currently stands at 40 per cent complete, and through careful monitoring of the quality, health, safety, and environment (QHSE) practices at the site, GWC in cooperation with Al Bader has been able to ensure that the construction is on track for timely completion, it stated.

The upcoming GWC Bu Sulba Warehousing Park is one of Manateq’s economic zones initiatives, and is aimed directly at servicing the growing local small and medium enterprises (SME) sector, providing them with the best expertise and infrastructure in Qatar while allowing them to remain competitive through attractive pricing, said the company.

The logistics hub will feature the brand of GWC Distribution Centres and Multipurpose Warehousing, offering a variety of storage options including dry, cool, chilled, frozen, and bulk, catering to a wide variety of industries in a flexible and fully scalable environment.

A fully contained community, the warehousing park will also feature administrative offices, accommodation buildings, shopping and recreation facilities, as well as the best in world class IT infrastructure, it said.
 
Naji Nassar, senior director of commercial services, GWC, said: “Our company has a reputation of delivering on its commitments punctually and reliably, and this drive to achieve will always be coupled with a pledge to do so in the safest and most secure of working environments.”

“By providing the safest and most secure of environments, we are setting a precedent within this space that QHSE matters, from the earliest stages of construction all the way through to the facility’s operations,” he revealed.

Mohammed Ahmed Seddiqi Al-Emadi, vice executive chairman, Al Bader, said: “Both the companies have a long-standing relationship, having worked well together in the past for a number of GWC’s international standard sites.”

“Throughout this partnership, we have found a strong peer in GWC when it comes to the health and safety of our workers, as we share an understanding that a safe work environment is the surest way to achieve the greatest of objectives,” he added. – TradeArabia News Service