DP World rewarded for outstanding performance at the annual Seatrade Awards

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DP World CEO Mohamed Sharaf was also named Personality of the Year for the continuing successful expansion of DP World's flagship port at Jebel Ali.

The sixth annual Seatrade Middle East and Indian Subcontinent Awards took place on Thursday October 9th at the Intercontinental Hotel in Festival City. Nearly 700 senior executives from maritime companies across the region attended.

Guest of Honour Jamal Majid Bin Thaniah, Executive Vice Chairman, DP World and Group CEO Port & Free Zone World, started proceedings by presenting an upbeat assessment of future container traffic growth in the region, calling upon other ports in the region to upgrade their facilities and levels of service to cope with the extra volumes.

A Lifetime Achievement Award went to veteran George Edward Chapman, who had begun container operations at Port Rashid back in the 1960s when the terminal was under agency control. Captain Jimmy Sarbh, former Asia Chairman of P&O Ports, won the Seatrade Outstanding Achievement Award for having built up P&O's dominant position in the Indian ports industry before it was taken over by DP World.

Hosting the awards dinner was leading broadcaster Tim Sebastian of BBC Television fame ('Hard Talk', 'Doha Debates'). Presiding over the evening was Chris Hayman, Chairman of maritime events organiser and publisher Seatrade.

Established in 1989, the Seatrade Awards scheme celebrates recognises and rewards innovation and success within the international maritime industry. The awards are judged by an independent panel of industry leaders from across the international maritime industry. The panel is chaired by Efthimios Mitropoulos, Secretary-General, International Maritime Organization (IMO).