Partnership to promote road safety awareness, reduce accident rates
SOHAR Port and Freezone have joined hands with the Oman Society for Petroleum Services (OPAL), to promote road safety awareness and safe driving techniques, and to collaborate on the adoption of OPAL Road Safety Standards in the Port and Freezone area.
The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was recently signed by the CEO SOHAR Port, Mark Geilenkirchen and CEO SOHAR Freezone and DCEO SOHAR Port, Jamal Aziz, on behalf of SOHAR, while the CEO, Musallam Al Mandhari, represented OPAL.
“Our traffic safety protocols are quite strict and together with the support of OPAL, the application of the Road Safety Standard will greatly contribute to reducing traffic incidents, to ensure the well-being of all our staff, stakeholders and society at large,” noted Suwaid Al Shamaisi, the Executive Manager Corporate Affairs at SOHAR Port and Freezone.
“OPAL will form an implementation committee together with our users within the Port. It will integrate relevant components of the road safety standards with SOHAR’s rules and regulations, thus creating an overall risk-free environment for the Sultanate in the long-run,” observed Al Shamaisi.
