“We Are Very Competitive” says Palu Dhanani from Universal Corporation (UCL)
Palu Dhanani, Managing Director of Universal Corporation (UCL), talks about the company’s biggest success story, which is its pre-qualification by WHO Geneva.
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Palu Dhanani, Managing Director of Universal Corporation (UCL), talks about the company’s biggest success story, which is its pre-qualification by WHO Geneva.
Abdullahi Ali, member of the Somalia National Alliance Party (SNAP), talks about his political ambitions, saying he wants to become a reform leader for the country.
Shabbir Hamza Noormohamed, Business Development Manager at Complast Industries, presents the company. Complast is specialized in plastic furniture manufacturing and produces an average of 40,000 metrics tons of plastics every month.
Nizar Hemraj, Managing Director of Complast Industries, mentions some of the company’s main success stories since its establishment in August 1994. Some of them include their ISO certification, the Club 101 ranking and their partnership with Danida to make ballot boxes for various countries throughout Africa.
Sanjeev Tiwari, General Manager of The Heron Portico, talks about the history of the hotel since its inception and explains what facilities and services people will find during their stay at The Heron Portico.
“Our appeal is for the government to recognise us. We have been able to get here mainly because Chevron Nigeria Ltd has been a very big supporter of Pem Offshore. It was like a dream when we went to Chevron; they gave us a contract without ever seeing anything on the ground,” says Phillips Matthews, Senior Vice President (Americas/Africa) of PEM OFFSHORE GROUP.
“This is the biggest centre in Africa. There is a little one in South Africa which is not even half of what we have in one room. There is another little one in Egypt but this is the biggest in Africa,” says Phillips Matthews, Senior Vice President (Americas/Africa) of PEM OFFSHORE GROUP.
“We target the IOCs, Offshore Vessel Operators, Rig Owners and Operators, Crewing Agencies as well as Government Scholarship Boards. We work with international and local academies. Our major targets are the seafarers themselves, the crew, people who are willing to work offshore or onshore to support offshore operations, people who work in the offices, who work in maritime logistics, the vessel owners, the rig owners, barge owners, dredge owners,” says Phillips Matthews, Senior Vice President (Americas/Africa) of PEM OFFSHORE GROUP.
“We have a DP2 advanced simulator. We also have a basic DP simulator. They are all K-POS 8.2 series which is the top range. We also have the ASD tractor tug and basic ship handling tug bridge simulator. We can achieve about 18 to 20 courses from these three simulators,” says Phillips Matthews, Senior Vice President (Americas/Africa) of PEM OFFSHORE GROUP.
“Our drive has been to give what are called cutting costs initiatives. People running courses here used to spend millions of naira to book a flight, they spent a lot of money to get a visa and the course fees cost them a lot of money as well, thousands of dollars, they stay in a good hotel and it was all done overseas,” says Phillips Matthews, Senior Vice President (Americas/Africa) of PEM OFFSHORE GROUP.