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<strong>NAFL</strong> REVIEW<br />
Exclusive Q&A<br />
SOHAR Port & Freezone thriving and<br />
ready for mega-containerships<br />
Hutchison Ports SOHAR recently launched its new Auto Gate system at Terminal C which features remote-controlled<br />
quayside cranes capable of handling next generation 20,000 TEU vessels. His Excellency, Dr. Ahmed Mohammed Salem<br />
Al-Futaisi, Minister of Transport and Communications in Oman, was on hand to officially inaugurate the new state-of-theart<br />
facilities.<br />
With global investments of more than $25 billion,<br />
SOHAR Port and Freezone is one of the fastest<br />
growing ports and freezone developments in the<br />
world.<br />
Located midway between Dubai and Muscat, this<br />
deep-sea port which lies at the center of global trade<br />
routes across Europe and Asia, is home to logistics,<br />
petrochemicals, metal and food clusters that feed<br />
downstream industries with iron and steel, plastics<br />
and rubber, ceramics and chemicals.<br />
<strong>NAFL</strong> Review gets first-hand insights about the latest<br />
in this thriving business venture between the<br />
Sultanate of Oman and the Port of Rotterdam with<br />
Mark Geilenkirchen, SOHAR Port and Freezone CEO.<br />
SOHAR Port showed impressive growth in 2016, how does 2017<br />
look?<br />
MG: “Our first quarter performance was excellent and shows once<br />
again that SOHAR is in the right place at the right time. For example, in<br />
the first quarter of 2017 compared to the first quarter of 2016, our dry<br />
Mark Geilenkirchen<br />
CEO, SOHAR Port & Freezone<br />
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