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Kuwait Oil Tanker Company (KOTC) has won the Environment Protection Award for the Middle East and Indian Subcontinent Region 2015
KUWAIT, Dec 10 (KUNA) -- The Kuwait Oil Tanker Company (KOTC) has announced that it won the Environment Protection Award for the Middle East and Indian Subcontinent Region 2015.
In a statement to KUNA on Thursday, KOTC said that the award is a new achievement made by the company over the last two years, adding that it received the award late Wednesday during an annual celebration held in UAE's Dubai.
The company noted that some global companies specialized in the industry of sea transport and environment protection competed fiercely for the award which is granted by Lloyd, an international organization.
Meanwhile, KOTC CEO Sheikh Talal Al-Khaled Al-Sabah stressed the company's keenness on abidance by international environment standards, saying that it gives a top priority to the protection of environment.
The award was obtained this year, thanks to concerted efforts of all workers who are keen to promote their company's status internationally in sea transport industry, he said.
"This promotes our insistence on preserving fully environment and keenness on developing the company to offer constantly services in accordance with international standards through abidance by all international laws concerning environment protection," he added.
The company also won this year the award for best tankers operator in the maritime.
The company is mainly involved in the ownership and management of tankers engaged in the transport of crude oil, refined petroleum products and liquefied petroleum gases (LPG).
In addition, it also operates a Marine Agency Branch, acting as sole agent of all tankers calling at Kuwait's sea port and a Gas Branch for the filling and distribution of LPG cylinders for local industry and domestic consumption.
Lloyd's List is a world's oldest continuously running journal which has been providing weekly shipping news in London on risks in sea transport field since 1734.
It grants annually several awards in different fields to the best companies in sea transport. (end)
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