Emirates Classification Society (Tasneef) has joined hands with Italy-based Logmarin, a consultancy company specialised in shipping logistics and advisory, to bring new ideas to the UAE marine industry and also strengthen its ties with Italian marine companies.  

Waleed Al Nahdi, commercial and marketing director at Tasneef, said: “This agreement aims to raise the national capabilities and enables the UAE to develop its maritime resources and open doors for our national engineers to be trained to play a vital role in the development of local maritime industry.”

Suod Al Hammadi, defense projects manager at Tasneef, said: “This partnership aims to train local engineers in the fields of ports and marine consultancy.

“The added value of this visit is to build better and more advanced local maritime resources through the technical support Logmarin will provide us with in the field of floating terminals, and to train our engineers in Italy within the recent existing enterprises,” he said.

“The agreement also aims at easing logistic operations related to transportation, cargo, and port management,” he added.

Al Hammadi said: “During the visit, we met the Royal Institution of Naval Architects (Rina) and the most prominent maritime companies and authorities in Italy to look for various means of establishing co-operation with these companies.

“Through these ties we will be able to use advanced Italian maritime technologies to develop our capabilities to better support the classification services we provide the Arab World,” he added.  – TradeArabia News Service