Receiving the awards on behalf of SIFAX Group, the Managing Director, SIFAX Shipping Company Limited, Markus Brinkmann, appreciated CILT’s gesture and noted the resolve of the company to deepen its commitment to the growth of the country’s economy through its business expansion strategy “that will generate more employment opportunities, quality and efficient service and impactful corporate social responsibility initiatives”.
Two of the Group’s subsidiaries, Ports and Cargo Handling Services Limited, concessionaire of the Terminal C, Tin Can Island Port, Apapa and Skyway Aviation Handling Company Limited (SAHCOL) were awarded the most notable innovate Maritime Operator of the Year and Leading Logistics Firm in Warehousing Operations awards respectively at the annual ceremony held in Lagos.
While presenting the awards to SIFAX Group, the chairman of the occasion and the former Managing Director, Nigerian Ports Authority, Chief Adebayo Sarumi, noted that the decision to concession the country’s port operations in 2016 and the involvement of indigenous companies in the exercise has paid off with the giant strides recorded by SIFAX Group in the last ten years.
