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4 Sierra Leonean Port workers end management course in Belgium

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Author: Chernor Ojuku Sesay - Brussels-EU

Four senior workers of the Sierra Leone Port Authority have successfully completed a port management course at the Antwerp Port Training Centre in Belgium.

The four, Sarrah K. Sesay (Divisional Manager Media Marketing), Eustace Carrol-Garrick (Operations Manager), Joseph Davies (Personnel Manager) and Ishmael Kanu (Director of Planning and Development) were full of praise for the Authority’s new boss Captain Benjamin Davies for the opportunity them to pursue the programme and his determination to capacitate the youthful manpower at the Port.

The course attracted a total of 40 participants from different countries like The Gambia, South Africa, Indonesia, India, China, Poland etc.

The Antwerp city has a population of 500,000 inhabitants with 164 different nationalities with the fourth most beautiful railway in the world, the first skyscraper in Europe, the second largest port in Europe after the Port of Rotterdam in Holland, the second largest petro-chemical complex in the world, breath-taking museums, world’s best Maritime Academy, renown universities and polytechnics and above all a life expectancy of 80 years, which is the highest in the world.

The Antwerp Port has a workforce of 20,000. The Port currently handles an annual average volume of almost 190 million tonnes of international maritime cargo, around 16,400 sea-going ships and 61,400 barges call at Antwerp every year. The Antwerp Port has an enormous surface area of 32,264 acres, over 93 miles of Quays for seagoing vessels combined with some 1,310 acres of covered warehousing and handling space.

Chernor Ojuku Sesay, Information Attaché, Sierra Leone Embassy Brussels/EU

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