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DAN ANAHORY THE FACE OF THE FUTURE?

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Easter and April Fools Day are falling on the same holiday this year. I cannot think how that could not go well.

For several months we at the Littlegate Towers have been pushing to get more of our readers to take a serious look at the internet as a means of generating a secondary flow of revenue for themselves and for their businesses. We’ve been pushing against old-styled attitudes of people with the mindset of yesteryear to change the way they look at the internet as not just a gimmicky entertainment platform and look at it as a genuine means of making money.

Some cold hard truths need to be nailed into the minds of people. One is that no matter who you are you are judged by how much you are worth to other people, your value is what you can offer to others. Another is that the world’s speed of change has accelerated. Our parents say the world changes fast, they have no idea. If you don’t make a concerted effort to keep up with the technology you will be left behind. A large portion of the technology made today is done to help you succeed in this new world of “online” and if you get left behind you’re meant to be left behind.

Never before has there been such opportunity and all you have to do is educate yourself on it. I believe that internet education should be as important to a person as learning to drive and getting a license. It should be taught in schools as a compulsory subject so that the people who are entering the workforce are not doing so with old ideas.

It could change your life. Whatever your business, it can only benefit from an additional stream of revenue and if such a stream could be guaranteed for the price of an hour a day then you would be a madman not to give it that chance.

The crux of it is simple, when it comes down to it, are you team old ideas or team new ideas because guess which team is likely to win.

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Features

18 Econet Wireless Zimbabwe: Communicating For The Future 24 Al Zamil Heavy Industries Ltd.: International Standards, Family Values 30 Freeport Container Port: Transhipment Hub Of The Americas 36 National Energy Corporation Of Trinidad And Tobago: Keeping The Gas Flowing 42 Mosko’s Group: Building A Legacy One Generation At A Time 50 Technip Malaysia: Strength In Numbers 56 Yemen National Cement Company: Set In Concrete 62 Hi-Lo Food Stores: Nation’s Favourite

Mickey Mouse Operations Not everyone is a raging success from the start. Artist and illustrator Walt Disney was hired by the Kansas City Star as a newspaper artist and later fired because, according to his employers, he lacked creativity.

Ironically, the Walt Disney Company would later buy ABC, which owned the Kansas City Star.

“Hire character. Train skill.”

Peter Schutz

Articles

6 Dan Anahory: 10 Changing The Rules Don’t Judge A Book By Its Cover 14 And You’ll Get Eggs Volvo S60: 16 The Epoch Of Casual Coolness Business Headlines

Pragmatic Rockstar Rockstar Neil Young once wired up his house to be the left speaker and the barn as his right speaker so that he could listen to music from a boat in the middle of his lake

“The best way to predict your future is to create it” Peter F. Drucker

Most Beloved Children’s Writer Was A Secret Agent!

The writer Roald Dahl’s mission, as a spy for the British government, was to seduce powerful US women in order to gather useful intelligence Roald Dahl is a famous author, known for his many works including James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Matilda. He is perhaps one of the best British novelists of the last century.

He had another profession that was a little less known though.

Dahl was also a fighter pilot in the Royal Air Force.

However, Dahn was also an undercover agent for the secret service network British Security Coordination (BSC). He was based in the United States to help further the goal of the BSC ie. promoting UK interests in the US and countering Nazi propaganda.

In order to gain intelligence, Dahl romanced and seduced many high society women. He was somewhat of a gossip though and frequently betrayed confidences. Maybe he should have read some of Ian Flemming’s work?

Business Headlines

PetroVietnam University Selects Intergraph® SmartMarine® Enterprise Vietnamese university provides training in nextgeneration 3D design solution and engineering applications for oil and gas industry PetroVietnam University (PVU) has joined the Intergraph® Education Grant Program, selecting SmartMarine® Enterprise solutions for its curriculum to support Vietnam’s offshore oil and gas industry.

PVU is located in the offshore oil and gas hub of southern Vietnam, and was established to focus on the development of the country’s oil and gas industry. The Vietnamese university recognized that it needs to equip its students with the necessary skills and knowledge so that they are ready to apply the tools that employers already use when they join the work force. PVU will provide its students with access to SmartMarine Enterprise solutions, including SmartMarine 3D, SmartPlant® Review, SmartPlant Instrumentation, SmartPlant Electrical, SmartPlant P&ID and SmartSketch®.

Intergraph’s ruled-based technology features unique automation capabilities, which was a compelling factor in PVU’s decision. In addition, SmartMarine Enterprise is proven in the Vietnamese oil and gas industry, with organizations such as PetroVietnam Marine Shipyard and Vietsovpetro already using Intergraph solutions for the design and construction of offshore facilities. PVU will incorporate the integrated suite of SmartMarine Enterprise solutions into its computer-aided design curriculum for the

About PetroVietnam University PetroVietnam University (PVU) was established in 2010 as a special public university with investment from PetroVietnam. PVU’s mission is to train high-quality human resources, and connect training with scientific research and business for the development of Vietnam’s oil and gas industry. The university has an office in Ha Noi and campuses in Ba Ria and Vung Tau. PVU is a career-oriented university, aiming to become one of the leading universities in Vietnam by 2020 and in Asia and the world by 2050 www.pvu.edu.v n About Intergraph Intergraph is the leading global provider of engineering and geospatial software that enables customers to visualize complex data. Businesses and governments in more than 60 countries rely on Intergraph’s industry-specific software to organize vast amounts of data to make processes and infrastructure better, safer and smarter. The company’s software and services empower customers to build and

operate more efficient plants and ships, create intelligent maps, and protect critical infrastructure and millions of people around the world.

Intergraph operates through two divisions: Process, Power & Marine (PP&M) and Security, Government & Infrastructure (SG&I). Intergraph PP&M provides enterprise engineering software for the design, construction, operation and data management of plants, ships and offshore facilities. Intergraph SG&I provides geospatially powered solutions, including ERDAS technologies, to the public safety and security, defense and intelligence, government, transportation, photogrammetry, and utilities and communications industries. Intergraph Government Solutions (IGS) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Intergraph Corporation responsible for the SG&I U.S. federal business.

Intergraph is part of Hexagon (Nordic exchange: HEXA B), a leading global provider of design, measurement, and visualization technologies that enable customers to design, measure and position objects, and process and present data. www.intergraph.com

marine and petroleum course tracks. PVU is the first higher education institution in Vietnam to use SmartMarine 3D and the SmartMarine Enterprise portfolio in its curriculum.

“There is a growing need for skilled engineers in Vietnam’s vibrant oil and gas industry, and we are committed to using the best tools to educate our students,” said Dr. Le Phuoc Hao, associate professor and rector of PVU. “Our participation in Intergraph’s Education Grant Program is a major achievement for us, and we can now equip both our lecturers and students with the latest, state-of-the-art technology that is used by major engineering companies and owner operators worldwide. This gives our graduates immense opportunity to secure jobs in the thriving local oil and gas industry.”

Gerhard Sallinger, Intergraph Process, Power & Marine president, said, “Intergraph is the top engineering design solution provider in the global oil and gas industry, and we are pleased to partner with PVU to nurture the next generation of young engineers in Vietnam. With training in SmartMarine Enterprise, PVU graduates will bring expertise in Intergraph’s innovative engineering solutions into our clients’ businesses, and deliver increased safety, quality and productivity to local offshore oil and gas projects.”

SmartMarine Enterprise is the world’s most advanced, integrated offshore and shipbuilding solution, driving improvements in design efficiency, production schedule, handover and overall life-cycle cost control for enhanced global competitiveness. Intergraph is a world leader in marine structure design and data management, with SmartMarine Enterprise endorsed and used by the world’s leading offshore and marine companies, including the most productive shipyard, the top offshore owner operator, the top fabrication yard and the top classification society in the world.

The ARC Advisory Group, a leading industry analyst firm, ranked Intergraph as the No. 1 overall worldwide provider of engineering design solutions for industry according to its “Engineering Design Tools for Industry and Infrastructure Worldwide Outlook Market Analysis and Forecast Through 2016.”

Nissan Debuts 2014 Pathfinder Hybrid, NV200 Mobility Taxi at New York International Auto Show •

2014 Nissan Pathfinder Hybrid set for late summer, offers 26 mpg fuel economy (estimated combined city/highway), 526-mile driving range • Wheelchair accessible “Mobility Taxi” added to Nissan NV200 “Taxi of Tomorrow” program • Custom Nissan NV200 “Gibson Repair & Restoration Van” also on display NEW YORK, -- After nearly doubling sales of Pathfinder since the October 2012 introduction of an all-new fourth-generation design, Nissan’s iconic SUV took another major step forward today with the world debut of the 2014 Nissan Pathfinder Hybrid at a press conference at the New York International Auto Show.

The Pathfinder Hybrid, the first of several upcoming Nissan hybrid models, is scheduled to go on sale at Nissan dealers in the United States in late summer.

Featuring a supercharged 2.5-liter gasoline engine, 15 kW electric motor and advanced Nissan Intelligent Dual Clutch hybrid control system, it will be priced at around $3,000 USD above the standard 3.5-liter V6 gasoline engine-powered Pathfinder models.

Also making its New York debut today was the wheelchair accessible version of the Nissan NV200 Taxi, which will become available as part of Nissan’s NV200 “Taxi of Tomorrow” program that rolls out this coming fall. Converted by Indiana-based BraunAbility, the NV200 Mobility Taxi features a rear ramp and an industry-first integrated restraint system that provides safe and quick securing of wheelchairs. The rear ramp access eliminates the need for wheelchair users to cross traffic to enter or exit – an important feature for New York City’s network of one-way streets. The Nissan Mobility Taxi looks and functions like a standard NV200 Taxi until the mobility function is needed.

Said Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. Executive Vice President Andy Palmer: “Our mindset at Nissan is to lead the way with innovative solutions to the challenges of modern, sustainable mobility with the goal of reaching 100 percent zero emissions, like the LEAF. That means creating cleaner, more fuel-efficient vehicles like the Pathfinder Hybrid that serve people on the move, and vehicles like the NV200 Mobility Taxi that offer expanded functionality while keeping a small environmental footprint.”

Both vehicles will be on display throughout the New York International Auto Show’s consumer days – March 29 th through April 7 th – at Jacob Javits Center in Manhattan.

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Business Headlines

The Soft House THE SOFT HOUSE, a winning competition project for adaptable live/work row housing designed by the KVA Matx Team with 360+ Architekten opens today in Hamburg, Germany in the International Building Exhibition (IBA).

The Soft House offers a new model for carbon neutral construction and an ecologically responsive lifestyle that can be personalized to meet homeowner needs. The Soft House design features the first global demonstration of an innovative solid soft-wood structure that sequesters carbon and a movable, textile infrastructure. On the exterior, the Soft House interactive, flexible facade harvests energy. On the interior, homeowners can move the Soft House smart curtains to configure space, provide solid state lighting and create personal micro-climates. Using the site’s natural resources -- sun, wind, daylight, ground water and land for urban agriculture -- the Soft House provides light filled, dynamic living spaces that meet German PassiveHaus environmental standards, while offering homeowners a much more open and flexible living experience.

“The Soft House is an ‘active’ house. The wood structure is enduring while the domestic infrastructure of energy, lighting, and space making become more like furnishings -mobile, interactive and connected to the soft house wireless network, a smart building management system,” said Sheila Kennedy, AIA a Principal of KVA Matx.

The Soft House structure is a traditional solid sprucewood construction (brettstapfel) with wood dowel joints.

Made by local fabricators, the structure can be fully recycled at the end of the buildings’ life. The soft-wood construction is complimented by flexible photovoltaic nano-materials in a network of textile ‘twisters’ that respond to sun orientation -- creating the first 2-axis soft solar tracking system. Just as a sunflower moves with the sun, the facade moves to capture the maximum amount of clean energy to power the housing units. At the same time, it casts shade in the summer and allows light to penetrate deep into the homes

during the winter – saving the household energy year round.

In the interior, the Soft House smart curtains provide LED lighting and distribute low voltage clean energy harvested by the exterior facade. The LED lighting that moves in the Soft House curtains creates a Visual Breeze -- an ambient interior luminous expression of the external environment -- one of many programmable modes for real time monitoring and visualization of outside wind and climate conditions.

The Soft House facade demonstrates how historically “hard” energy infrastructure—such as nonrenewable energy, glass-based solar panels, and sun-tracking machinery—can be transformed by design that uses intelligent structures and lighter, low-carbon materials linked by energy and information networks. “The Soft House is an outstanding example of intelligent technologies and conceptual innovation in housing at the International Building Exhibition,” commented Uli Hellweg, Managing Director of IBA. “It represents a new type of carbon neutral, urban living that is pioneering a 21st century architectural aesthetic where energy harvesting provides the public identity of the building.” The Soft House design team includes 360+ Architekten (Hamburg), Knippers Helweg Advanced Engineering (Stuttgart), G2 Landschaft (Hamburg), Buro Happold MEP (Berlin) and project developer Patrizia, AG (Augsburg). The Soft House manufacturing consortium includes Svensson Global, AG, Global Solar, Inc., Philips Lighting, Inc., Automated Devices, Inc. and L-tonics, Inc. Kennedy & Violich Architecture, Ltd. (KVA Matx) is an interdisciplinary design practice that works at the intersection of architecture, digital technologies and emerging public needs. Matx, the interdisciplinary research unit at KVA explores material culture across sales. Working with industry leaders and public agencies we create break through designs that advance the sustainable use of new and existing materials and natural resources. For more information on KVA Matx and the IBA Soft House, please see: www.kvarch.net/projects/87

Dutch Broadcaster NOS Selects GlobeCast and Eutelsat Resources for SNG Operations GlobeCast and Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL) today announced that they have signed a multi-year agreement with NOS, the Dutch broadcasting network, for dedicated capacity on the EUTELSAT 12 West A satellite to meet NOS’s growing requirements for satellite news gathering (SNG).

The new contribution network will support NOS’s planned upgrade to HD operations for its SNG facilities and trucks by the end of 2013. It will also increase the broadcasting resources mobilised by NOS to support news events in 2013 which promise to be highly active in the Netherlands; one high-profile story being the coronation on April 30 of Prince Willem-Alexander.

“We‘re pleased that we are once again able to meet NOS‘s demanding requirements for reliability and quality of service, “ said Alessandro Alquati, Director of Contribution Services at GlobeCast. “We‘re looking forward to working with Eutelsat to drive NOS‘s expanding and evolving SNG operation.”

“Satellites remain a core technology for flexible and high-quality reporting of news, sports and cultural events.

We are delighted that the power and coverage of the EUTELSAT 12 west A satellite are matching the expectations of the Netherlands ‘ most experienced broadcaster and look forward to exciting times in collaboration with Globe Cast, “ added Nick Daly, Managing Director, Eutelsat UK Ltd.

The Nederlandse Omroep Stichting is a member of the Netherlands Public Broadcasting system, providing news and sports programming for three Dutch public television channels, the Dutch public radio service and their website www.nos.nl. In the event of emergencies and/or a major breaking news story breaking, the NOS assumes control of the public networks and co-operates with the other members of the system to provide the coverage.

A subsidiary of France Telecom/Orange, GlobeCast is a leading provider of media management and global content delivery services for broadcasters and content creators.

With a secure fiber and satellite network connected to dozens of teleports, technical operations centers, and points-of-presence worldwide, GlobeCast manages and transports millions of hours of video and other rich media each year. An integrator of audiovisual technology and a full service provider, GlobeCast works with all the actors in the audiovisual chain from production companies to broadcasters, retail organizations, cinema chains, and more.

The company provides on-site service from major news and sporting events for coverage in SD, HD, or even 3D. Present in Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and Australia, GlobeCast is also an expert in international television markets, and works with new and established broadcasters to reach and secure distribution with leading pay-TV operators around the world.

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DAN ANAHORY: CHANGING THE RULES

by Donnie Rust

There is a reality in life, that many of us can’t really get to grips, with things are really changing. Now is not the time to be relying on what worked yesterday - now is the time to decide on what is going to work tomorrow.

If now is the time when a young man can decide that he does not want to work the long hours that used to be the price for success, when a young man has single-handedly rewritten the rules, we have to take a long hard look at ourselves and wonder why we’re doing this to ourselves.

Donnie Rust got the chance to speak with such a man, Dan Anahory CEO and founder of Anahory Enterprises Ltd. At the age of nineteen, Dan does not have doctorates or degrees, he doesn’t herald from a wealthy family and has not started a business off the back of an inheritance. He is simply a man who decided what he wanted when he was young and

pledged that he would get it.

“It started when I was ten and I got a job delivering papers,” he explains. “Instead of blowing this on whatever, I saved up my pennies until I had £1000 at the age of 12 and invested in shares.”

Dan’s father fell ill from what was attributed to

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overworking himself, he decided that he wanted to be highly successful without having to work the long gruelling hours that he saw his father do.

“Making money online was the only way to do things,” Dan explains, “And at first I looked into the “Make Money Online” schemes which I got scammed with quite a few times.”

No doubt this strikes a chord with many of our readers and Dan says that his first main success was a website he created from scratch to review the different online money making sites and programmes to help determine which ones were legitimate and which should be avoided.

I think it’s unfair to call Dan a “whizz kid”. Whenever you speak with someone who has a great story, who has achieved a great deal in a short space of time, like Dan who in made over £500 000 turnover in four months, you hope to find some kind of advantage they have that you don’t; Something that makes them different and therefore more successful than you.

Having spoken with Dan I didn’t get that. Dan is your average 19 year old, I telephoned him on a Tuesday at 11am and he was still in bed after a late night out. He has the same tools available to him that we have - the main difference is his approach and belief.

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Dan and his team

“High demand, low supply,” he sums up his business tactic in four simple words, “I research an industry fully until I find the one with the best numbers, the highest demand and the lowest supply then I produce an appropriate website. These range from a juice business in Thailand, water purification in Russia and a mattress comparison website in Slovenia.”

High demand-low supply creates a high flux of people viewing his websites and he makes money through Google Ads, which are advertising blocks provided by the online giant Google that pay per click and this is why it’s very important to generate a lot of traffic across a website.

“It’s important to have more than one revenue stream because things go up and down,” Dan explains, “Markets

go up and down and you have to keep your eye on the ball.”

Dan has one of the top 10 anime sites with 24 million members called “Realitylapse”, he is also making deals with major casino companies for corporate website ads and has many plans for the million or so subscribers that he has collected.

“An out of the box mentality and strong work ethic is something my Dad, who comes from a working class family has instilled in me,” Dan admits. “I wasn’t interested in the old work model. I knew there was a better way.”

I think that an important fact to relay here is that while Dan is an incredibly talented, innovative and motivated young man, who with boyish charm and manly determination has

overcome both personal and professional hurdles, it is not these qualities alone that have made him the success he is. It would appear it is instead the fearlessness to try something and give it a go.

With this sort of approach there is a range of enterprises that he is involved with and starting up: “I’m setting up an angel investment network, www.

Smartangelnetwork.com like “B-Daily”,” he reveals, “Based on a membership format where people can get advice and guidance on investing in ‘start-ups’ and raising finance, online from the comfort of one’s home.”

Seeing a niche in the market for reliable conference calls Dan designed a Wi-Fi based programme that is encrypted for

security and easy to use. With stronger reliability it is set to replace Skype in the years to come. It’s through this business that he employs a handful of staff, works about an hour a week and earns about £10 000 a month.

“I’m also working with Bon Jovi’s Producer to develop an app around him and helping a number of A-listers to become more internet friendly. It’s all about finding a niche that has a high demand and low supply and push it as hard as you can.”

Dan’s success illustrates the approaching era of availability and opportunity, he is the very encapsulation of what the internet can offer and the simple truth that the world has changed. No longer do you need to slog out the long hours, not if you don’t want to or understand how not to.

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DON’T JUDGE A BOOK

BY ITS COVER AND YOU’LL GET EGGS

by Donnie Rust

I find development interesting. Look at any company that has been around for a few decades and look at what they were when they started and you’ll see something completely different. For example, at the moment Coca Cola is a widely drunk, much loved beverage but as markets change so too the product and future generations will look back and wonder why we used to drink an industrial cleaning agent.

Holidays are the same.

I reckon if you were able to live long enough, and thanks to modern medical science/insanity you may very well be able to, you would see the slow but inevitable change of holidays as they are driven by marketing and money.

We all know that Christmas is a Frankenstein Monster holiday, stitched together with the cherry-picked-best of cultures, holidays, celebrations and religious ideas. The trees are Scandinavian and were used when, during the winter season, they were brought into people’s homes as a method of sympathetic magic to attract spring to come sooner (I understand some Brits are doing this currently). The decoration was because fir trees are simply ugly. Santa Claus being dressed in red is thanks to Coca Cola marketing power and the date is because this was the Winter Solstice. A long used method of converting one religion to another religion was by changing the names of their favourite holidays. They took the Winter Solstice and changed it to a wonderful story about a little baby Jesus Christ being born. One involves trees, snow and shivering and the other involves a little baby, cute animals, stable and presents –wohay!

Aimed specifically at children, Christmas changed from being about good will to all men to a competition between parents on who could get the most love from their kids.

Easter is the same.

You may have forgotten but Easter is a celebration (right

word?) of the Crucifixion, death and resurrection of Christ, it’s a time for Christians to recognize what their saviour did for them, dying for their sins, ascending to Heaven and then, if you read into what the Bible says, absolutely kick some Earthly ass when he returned (citation needed). The death part is a fairly awkward thing to explain to kids without giving them the wrong idea about what happens when you kill something horribly though.

The advent of chocolate eggs and bunnies, turns out, was not something merely thought up around the marketing table at Coca Cola headquarters this time, because, you know, they don’t do chocolates. Not yet at least. It was, instead, another case of clever replacement.

Easter was actually the Babylonian holiday for the Goddess Ishtar, who while being the goddess of war, vengefulness and cruelty was also the goddess of love, motherhood and sex. Her totems were the egg (motherhood) and the rabbit (because they’re little stop-outs that never stop doing the dirty). Also she was recognized for the sword, the lion and the eight pointed star with the eye in the middle. All of which are difficult to market in modern society. But is there any question that it was a woman’s holiday?

When Constantine brought Christianity to Rome and later to Babylon, he was the man responsible for changing the name of the December holiday- and the Easter holiday.

The children were taught in schools that despite what their

parents might tell them these holidays were not the holidays they might have heard about but was rather about presents and bunnies! Wohay!

Real intelligent marketing is never aimed at you as the person, but rather to the people you love and the people you provide for and importantly the people you want to be happy. Any father who claims that he would choose tradition over his family’s happiness has never suffered a tantrum thrown by a child at Christmas who hasn’t gotten what his friends have, and has yet to survive his wife’s anger at Easter when she hasn’t got the chocolate she wants.

Ideas can change that quickly. So just because it looks like a rainbow-bundled-foil-wrapped-deliciouseaster-egg-hunt holiday just remember that things change and the axis of that change is usually the marketing departments of the companies that make the most money. Ie. Coca Cola.

However I think that Christmas and Easter will stay the same. Because of men. Fathers want their children to be happy and occupied - give them presents so Christmas is win-win, and husbands want their wives to be happy and quiet - give them chocolate, so Easter is a win-win.

And as humans we want an excuse to be able to do this, so a quasi-religious-corporative holiday? Win win.

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At six feet five inches tall (2m) and 220 pounds (100 kilograms) I am by no means a small bloke and this causes an automatic problem when it comes to finding comfortable cars to drive. In fact when everyone else may be satisfied with the speed of a vehicle, the equine thrust, the number of cylinders and moving parts under the vehicle’s bonnet I am looking for an extra something. A key ingredient.

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THE EPOCH OF CASUAL COOLNESS

by Donnie Rust

Casual coolness.

Let me tell you about the Volvo S60 …

The profile of the S60 is lower than many of its siblings, with wider tyres for a better road grip and this is clearly essential since the five cylinder diesel engine turns this car into a rocket at a press of a pedal. A beautifully designed rocket draped lovingly in panther black, but a blistering rocket nonetheless.

As it is, even at the higher echelon of its speedometer the car sails and when it turns it does so as if it’s on rails.

The interior of the Volvo S60 bears the tell-tail rounded, high quality furnishing of a vehicle that is as smooth to the eyes as it is on the road. A mixture of black, chrome and charcoal grey form a seamless finish, with enough leg room

for my embarrassingly long legs.

Traditionally Volvo has always been known for its reliability and the S60 is no exception. With the high standard safety kit you would expect, including six airbags, stability control and their City Safe system which detects objects in front and cans top the car to prevent low-speed impacts. The optional Driver Support pack includes a Pedestrian Detection System, able to recognize a person in the road and along with the adaptive cruise control, a lane-departure warning system and a blind spot information system.

For the publishing executive this means enjoyment and casual coolness is made easier thanks to the technology supporting the driver.

Chuffed to bits.

Donnie Rust

The primary control functions for the driver are easy and at hand, volume, radio, Satnav and media controls on the steering wheel. While I confess it did take me a while to get used to the handbrake which is no longer in its traditional place and to be found as a small lever switch under the steering wheel column, also with no keys, no ignition I was chuffed to bits with the very polite on/off switch.

Fuel economy is impressive, whether on the motorway (highway for our international readers) or in the city. This advancement is in no small way reliant on the clever designing and assemblage of the vehicle where to the smallest margin everything has been taken into account to make sure your tank lasts longer.

With so much technology supporting the driver I did feel that my enjoyment of driving came at too easy a cost.

I’ve grown up on driving cars that have required skill just to keep them on the road and if I’m honest I found the car so adaptive and intelligent that I was a little intimidated and felt almost unnecessary. This car clearly makes the driver and does so while being friendlier on the pocket compared to its immediate rivals. So, it’s all smiles there.

Honestly, I found myself wearing a suit and sunglasses on the weekend just to keep up with the intense measure of the S60 and made so many unnecessary trips during the day just for the chance to look smug.

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Hi-Lo Food Stores www.hilofoodstores.com +1 868 627 4456 Written by Jack Slater

NATION’S FAVOURITE

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Hi-Lo Food Stores

The abundance of choice, the proper lighting over the food, correct shelving and storage, layout, specialized arrangement to take full advantage of the psychology of consumers. The best suppliers, the strongest sub-contractors, top end training and a unique approach- these are only part of what makes a retail franchise successful.

However, you need that special something else. Hi-Lo Food Stores began their existence on the 1st June 1950 when Gordon Graves New, the son-in-law of Ernest Canning, opened the first store on Marine Square where Hi-Lo joined the Neal & Massy family in 1975 and with seventeen locations in Trinidad and 1800 employees, they are a testament to that special something else.

“To expand the Hi-Lo Brand by being the best at satisfying the changing needs of our customers” is their mandate.

Intensely customer orientated they are dedicated to earning and retaining their customer’s ranking as the Nations favourite retailer by providing them with the very best service, the finest range of high quality products at the best prices.

A strong emphasis on working with customers face to face and a great deal of training is involved to keep the staff up to scratch. This includes specific training for the

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individual, not only on the products and brands but also on how to welcome and speak with customers. Good prices and great deals will only go so far after all, it is the way the customer feels after they’ve visited one of the stores that make the ultimate difference.

The focus a company places on its staff is directly representative of how they look after their customers and internal training is an important part of maintaining the quality of staff as is promoting from within. In their continued efforts to enhance and develop their staff this household name offers a Management Trainee program aimed at attracting highly ambitious and talented personnel both externally and internally to become the future Managers of Hi-Lo Food Stores nationwide.

By designing themselves as an all in one shopping destination, where the customer can pick up the total of their shopping each store has different sections and categories available: The Bakery; with new products being baked daily, using only the finest and freshest ingredients. Offering a variety of treats that satisfy any craving, their bakeries feature different assortments of breads, cookies, pies, cakes and sandwiches.

While selections may vary from day to day and store to store, each item is carefully made in an effort to maximize quality and flavour. Some of the signature items from our Bakeries include Quesitos; Apple pie; Crème cakes and JJ’s Swiss rolls, each one made with skill from the finest ingredients.

The Deli; from preparation to display meat has to be handled just right and some of the Hi-Lo foods selection

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include, Honey Roasted Turkey Breasts, Polish Sausage, Deli Rotisserie Whole Chicken and Salami. Hi-Lo Food Stores works closely with Hadco, Mac Foods, Erin Farms and Malabar Farms to ensure the highest-quality products.

A wide range of career opportunities are offered at this fine establishment. Their company is committed to help people achieve their full potential. People who have the will to succeed and a sincere desire to place their customers first will go far in this business. Hi-Lo Foods earns employee loyalty by helping each of their staff develop to their full potential.

Irrespective of how an employee starts in this company working either as a cashier or grocery attendant, there is the opportunity to be recommended for their Management Trainee Program or be placed on the Neal & Massy Middle Management Program. They offer tremendous opportunities for advancement with their Policy of Promotion from Within.

Statistically, many of the people you see managing the Stores and Departments today probably started in an entry level position!

Supported by a high developed team in the office and in the delivery logistics system there is a lot of mechanics behind the scenes that the customer will never see but will feel the benefits of. The fluid running of these hidden systems is what keeps the food fresh and the prices low.

The perfect combination of customer service, support, fresh produce and sunshine has made HI-Lo Foods one to look out for in the future.

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Econet Wireless Zimbabwe www.econet.co.zw +263 4 486121/6 Written by Jack Slater

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Econet Wireless Zimbabwe

Wireless technology has had an incredible impact on communications worldwide and heralded the turning point where technology became the work of the future. The ability to communicate wirelessly has made connectivity easier and safer which anyone who has had the task of wiring up an office will attest to. Econet Wireless Zimbabwe has brought this to their country and continued the precedence for this growth as it sweeps through the African Continent.

Let’s get a taste for the company. As the largest provider of telecommunications services in Zimbabwe, providing solutions in mobile and fixed wireless telephony, internet access, mobile money transfer and payment solutions Econet launched its network on the 10th of July 1998 and listed on 17th September 1998.

In terms of capital they are one of the largest companies on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange and has over 70% share of the Zimbabwe mobile market which was a figure taken in 2012 and this has continued to grow as they expand their subscriber base.

Continuously upgrading its network to carry more subscribers and enhance service quality their aim is to on a daily basis further their geographical coverage which is to further widen its geographical coverage which is already the most extensive in Zimbabwe.

The Key To Their Success Pioneering remains a key value at Econet. In 2009, the network became the first operator in Zimbabwe to launch data services under 3G technology and in 2010, Econet launched the country’s first mobile broadband network. This flies in the face of other communications providers in the region who were still dependent on ground line connections.

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The company’s key infrastructure at the start of 2011 included three main switches, fed by a broad network of base stations and Zimbabwe’s widest fibre optic network.

In line with its Christian-based vision and mission, Econet has a broad strategy for social and community investment, run under the “Econet in the Community” banner. Through these programmes, Econet supports a diverse range of charitable causes which include support to over 50 000 orphaned children, public healthcare, evangelism, as well as an annual scholarship program that has benefitted over 500 students Ultimately, the goal is clear and remains the same: To provide telecommunications to all the people of Zimbabwe.

Future Developments Having already establishing a solid foundation in Zimbabwe, Econet’s next plan is to open a new shop in Johannesburg to serve its Zimbabwean clients there.

The first South Africa shop will be appearing in Hillbrow, a densely populated inner-city suburb, and is intended to cash in on the success of its call home facility, which allows Zimbabweans in SA to call back home at discounted rates.

Calls home to Zimbabwe are pegged at R2.25 per minute off-peak and R2.85 per minute during peak times.

An Econet official in Harare said SA was a natural choice for expansion, given the “large market” of Zimbabweans living in SA that the company would be able to tap into. This market includes over 2 million Zimbabwean nationals living and working in the country.

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In Zimbabwe, Econet has 8 million subscribers. Telecel, its biggest rival, has 2.5 million subscribers, while state-owned NetOne has 1.7 million users. This has made Econet’s founder and chairman Strive Masiyiwa Zimbabwe’s richest man, with an estimated personal fortune of $300m according to Forbes magazine.

A market capitalisation of $600m, Econet also has operations in Botswana, Kenya and Burundi and is the only African-based company with a telecom licence in the UK (Econet Satellite Services). It has won a 3G licence in New Zealand and will roll out a network in that country once the market is fully liberalised.

Meanwhile, Econet has sealed an agreement to integrate its EcoCash money transfer facility with Zimbabwe’s banks.

A senior executive at Econet, Darlington Mandivenga, said he expected all banks in Zimbabwe to be integrated by the end of this month with EcoCash, which has 2 million users.

The Commercial Bank of Zimbabwe, Stanbic, Agribank and TN Bank have already integrated with EcoCash, which is a replica of the Kenyan M-Pesa money transfer system. The various responsible authorities in Zimbabwe have given the integration the green light, with banks saying it will help to ease any difficulties with liquidity in the financial services sector.

Preparing the foundation for future business Econet has used its EcoCash facility to pioneer flexibility and ease of doing business in Zimbabwe. Clearly a business with the eye on what is to come as Zimbabwe continues to grow and stabilize.

Al Zamil Heavy Industries Ltd. www.zhiltd.com +966 699 2411 Written by Djamil Benmehidi

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Al Zamil Heavy Industries Ltd.

As a company with a rich heritage in providing turnkey engineering services for the oil, gas, petrochemical and process industries, Al Zamil has thrived in recent years.

This critically acclaimed family business – which was the first organisation within its industrial sector to achieve the ISO 9001 certification, followed by the ASME ‘U’, ‘U2’, ‘PP’, ‘S’, ‘A’, and the National Board’s ‘NB’ and ‘R’ technical accreditation stamps – has cultivated a reputation for quality, and thanks to its investment in state-of-the-art machinery, network computer systems, engineering and design software, fabrication control systems and specialised industrial equipment, has the capabilities to meet all customer demands.

Managing Director Mr Ibrahim Saleh Al Zamil took the time to speak to Endeavour magazine to tell us more about the story of his company.

As the worlds leading oil producing nation, and with a world-class natural gas and petrochemicals sector, Saudi Arabia is well known across the world as an economic, cultural and military juggernaut. Buoyed by great increases in oil prices, Saudi Arabia has seen its economy take great strides since 2000, and has increasingly invested huge sums of capital into virtually every corner of the country.

The Jeddah based Al Zamil Heavy Industries Ltd (ZHI) specialises in the design, supply, manufacturing, assembly, construction, installation and maintenance of the capital equipment that serves Saudi Arabia’s oil, gas, petrochemical and process industries. In serving these world-class industries, this 100% privately owned Saudi Arabian business offers its clients a reputation for quality, and has earned technical accreditation such as ISO 9001-2000 and recognition from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. And with a list of customers including the Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco), Saudi Arabian Basic Industries Company (SABIC), ABV Rock Group, Bechtel, Ballast Nedam Groep N.V., Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation, ABB Lummus Crest, Chiyoda Petrostar, Hitachi Zosen to name but a few, Endeavour Magazine • April 2013 • 32

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it is possible to gain an idea of just how highly regarded Al Zamil Heavy Industries Ltd really is.

However the beginning of the story for this $100mn valued company was quite different according to Mr Ibrahim Saleh Al Zamil, “The company was formed in 1977 under the trade name SaudiMetalco for the purpose of manufacturing dump-truck bodies, together with water and asphalt trucks in support of its mother company, the Alharamain road construction business. Alharamain’s owners (50%-50%) were my father Shaikh Saleh Ibrahim Al Zamil (the current major shareholder of ZHI) and Shaikh Abdulrahman Al-Howaish.”

SaudiMetalco initially operated as a fabricator of the above equipment solely for its owners, but over time the company gradually began fabrication for Alharamain’s competitors in an effort to become more financially selfsufficient. However, SaudiMetalco was unsuccessful in the pursuit of these business ventures, and the company was then entirely bought out by Ibrahim’s father from Alharamain, who facilitated its operation through his brother Mr Abdullah Ibrahim Al Zamil. The company then began to specialise in the fabrication of industrial warehouse buildings, process structural steel buildings and then shop-built water and gasoline storage tanks instead; a move which ultimately proved to be the making of the company’s future success.

Following this change in strategic direction for the business – which then changed its name to Al Zamil Heavy Industries in accordance with new Islamic law - the company also decided to begin targeting new foreign clients over its

more risky traditional client base, in an effort to improve business turnover. The resultant growth in turnover allowed the company to flourish and with the backing of reliable, repeat customers such as Saudi American Oil, ZHI entered into a rich vein of company growth which further allowed the family business to consolidate its existing markets, while expanding into new ones.

Today the company is divided into several distinct branches, with the Steel Fabrication division acting as the crown jewel of the organisation, having more than 29 years worth of experience in its field. With the capability to design and manufacture a large range of products, such as pressure vessels, reactors, storage tanks, oil-fired heaters, steamgenerating plants, incinerators, heat exchangers, HRSG’s and silos, this particular facet of the business continues to enjoy much in the way of successful trade.

Al Zamil’s renowned emphasis on quality and safety is well known among its client industries. The business first sought to acquire and implement a quality system recognised to major foreign contractors, and as a result achieved the ISO 9001 accreditation in 1994. The company went on to seek – Saudi Aramco pressure vessel accreditation and achieved approval for up to 19mm-thick vessels, followed by a further approval covering up to 38mm-thick vessels in a span of four years.

“We also attempted, on several occasions, to obtain SA accreditation on pressure vessels for the next-to-largest level (between 38 and 76mm thickness) and were not successful due to the fact that we were in a Catch-22 situation. To be qualified for greater than 38mm thick vessels, thus allowing for vessel inquiries and potential orders, we needed to demonstrate over a live contract that we were building such vessels. In 2005 we received temporary approval for this, and in 2008 the temporary approval became permanent with the completion and full delivery of orders from the Khursaniyah Gas Plant, whose 42 vessels are all beyond the 76mm shell thickness We have the capability to roll pressure vessels from 500mm to 12m in diameter, and up to 180mmplate thickness in carbon, alloy and stainless steel within our modern fabrication complex using the latest rolling, welding, cutting, shearing and breakpress techniques. Larger pressure vessels and storage tanks are pre-rolled and site-erected by our experienced workforce throughout Saudi Arabia.”

To compliment Al Zamil’s excellent fabrication capabilities, the company oversees an engineering department that has the ability and experience to produce design calculations and working drawings to all international standards, with state-of-the-art CAD and design analysis software. Its skilled project managers and engineers closely manage all customer contracts, and ensure the smooth progress of operations from the inception of each project, and then through each subsequent phase of engineering, procurement and fabrication, prior to delivery. The project management system is in strict accordance with the ISO 9001-2000 certification.

Another primary component of Al Zamil’s is its Industrial Cranes division which has been granted exclusive licensee and fabrication rights for Munck Cranes, of which it builds four specific models. The Standard Overhead Travelling Cranes, which are available in capacities ranging from 1/2 ton to 60 tons, and with a span of up to 40 metres are custom built, pre-engineered cranes, which incorporate standard proven parts.

Goliath Cranes are made for numerous types of applications such as container handling, coil operation and the handling of sewage and various bulk materials. Capacities of these are from two tons to 150 tons, with up to 60-metre spans.

Heavy Cranes are engineered and built to handle heavy loads up to 200 tons for such applications as turbine buildings, shipyards and power-generation equipment. Marine Offshore Cranes are provided for efficient handling of loads on board ships and at ports, including oil field applications. The equipment is designed to operate in extreme environments and allows for minimum maintenance.

The company also has a lucrative Oil and Gas division, which was formed in 1985 to provide professional services for the petrochemical industry in Saudi Arabia. The key to the company’s success is quite simply its ambition to be the best, and its unyielding customer focus according to Mr. Al Zamil, who said: “We pride ourselves in having achieved, and continuing to maintain, the highest levels of globally recognised industrial standards ensured by the insight and inspiration of highly qualified and leading-edge management teams, and their supporting specialists.

Knowing the importance of teamwork, we have established, and continue to maintain, dynamic long-term relationships with our customers and suppliers. These partnerships are built on a mutual understanding of overall business objectives, specific project requirements, joint trust and constant communication.

From project conception to installation and operation,

ZHI and its partners combine their talents to provide turnkey services to our customers.” With growing capabilities, an ever increasing list of services to offer and satisfied clients, Mr. Al Zamil is anticipating a prosperous 2013.

This year, Al Zamil has been commissioned to begin work on 39 pressure vessels at Saudi Aramco’s Khursaniyah Gas Plant Project over the coming two years, six of which are the Khursaniyah Natural Gas Liquids bullet storage vessels. These six vessels will weigh in at more than 1,000 tonnes each, with a diameter of 6.6 metres, an overall length of 67.7m, and a wall thickness of 82mm. The scale of the project is such that it will truly test ZHI to the very limits of capabilities.

However Al Zamil’s answer to this engineering challenge is to build and heat-treat the vessels on-site, which would be the first time this kind of manufacturing job has been performed at a Saudi Aramco site by a Saudi manufacturer.

With tight deadlines to contend with, as well as a global shortage of steel, this job is certain to pose challenges. To heat–treat the vessels on–site, Al Zamil’s has assembled a large furnace to be placed over the 68-metre vessels, which will utilise electric and gas heaters to raise the vessel temperature to 690°C and perform a seven day thermal treatment process on it.

The Saudi Aramco project management team first explored the idea of on-site manufacturing with local manufacturers during the projects initial planning phase; and it is telling that Al Zamil was the only company willing to take on the challenge.

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Freeport Container Port

In spite of the sluggish performance of the global economy, demand for consumer goods continues to rise across the world. In direct correlation to this, ever more and ever bigger container ships will be required to transport these goods to ever bigger and deeper ports. Within the maritime trade and shipping industry, there has been cautious optimism as trade levels begin to reach pre-2008 levels once again.

Closer to the Americas, this cautious optimism has been replaced by wide-eyed excitement following news that a long-planned expansion of the Panama Canal has been rubber stamped.

The Bahamas based Freeport Container Port is well placed to take advantage of the anticipated increase in shipping this expansion would bring, due to its state-of-theart facilities and already existing capacity to accommodate the post-Panamax container ships that its rivals cannot.

Knowles Ntieado of Freeport Container Port spoke to Djamil Benmehidi to tell him more about the company’s story and plans for expansion.

Upon hearing the word Caribbean, the first thing that springs to mind for many is the word vacation. The reputation of the Bahamas as a tropical, sun-kissed tourist hotspot is well documented, but less so is its status as a global hub for the transhipment of containerised cargo.

The island of Grand Bahama - one of the largest of the 3,000 islands that the nation is comprised of – is home to the Freeport Container Port, a US$585mn port terminal that offers an array of world-class facilities, including a modern container port, full-service cruise centre, international airport and sea/air business centre.

Under the majority ownership and management of Hutchison Port Holdings - a global Hong Kong based industry titan with interests in over 26 countries - Freeport Container Port is already recognised as one of the world’s major transhipment hubs, thanks to its ideal strategic location that positions it at the central intersection of major international trade routes between the Americas, Europe and the Far East, as well as its use of leading-edge technology, including realtime communications and port-management systems, and a dedicated workforce.

“We are perfectly situated at a crossroads between major shipping lanes to every corner of the world. We’re around 60 miles away from Florida and the port in Miami, and we get a lot of container traffic from the US East Coast and Gulf Coast which are currently our main markets.”

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the elite because of its unique status as being the only port in the region that can accommodate the largest container vessels. Ships of post-Panamax size and the even larger mega ships which can dwarf an aircraft carrier in size - such as the MSC Tomoko - can dock at port. However the planned expansion of the Panama Canal – which will not only double the canals shipping capacity, but also allow larger postPanamax ships to transit – has given Freeport a once in a lifetime opportunity to capitalise on its position as the only port in the region that could accommodate this flow of larger ships, and as a result elevate the port into becoming one of the top five largest in the world.

“The recent news confirming the expansion the Panama Canal is a game changer for this port; it is as if the stars have aligned. We have the capabilities and capacity to take on the increased traffic and the post-Panamax shipping here at Freeport. This puts us in a unique position as other ports in the region would have to spend huge sums of money and spend great lengths of time in doing the civil work, dredging and general expansion work to get to where we are today.

There were forethoughts many years ago when this port was being built that this day would come, hence why Freeport was built with the capabilities and expansion potential it has. It is feasible that Freeport will become the number one transhipment terminal in the Western Hemisphere.”

With its 15.5m depth making it one of the deepest in the world, and over a kilometre of berth space, Freeport Container Port is now one of the largest man-made harbours in the world. To facilitate the ports transhipment activities,

the site also offers an extensive 57 hectare area of land for stacking of containers and other bulk goods. In addition to this extensive quay length and harbour depth, Freeport also has ten super post-Panamax quayside gantry cranes and two gottwald mobile harbour cranes which are capable of serving the largest of vessels. In terms of total capacity, these facilities give Freeport the potential to manage up to 1.5mn TEU’s per year, and yet this current capacity is very much the tip of the iceberg because of Freeport’s potential for phased expansion according to Knowles.

“We are serious in our aim to become recognised as one of the world’s top five container terminals. Our capacity today is sufficient for the volume of traffic that Freeport currently gets, and with the global economy still being relatively flat, we don’t have any plans for drastic expansion projects as of yet. But there is certainly a masterplan for phased expansion as business increases and should it be necessary, Freeport for example could increase its number of berths from three to twelve, from ten gantry cranes to forty-five, from a 1.5mn TEU’s per annum capacity to 6mn TEU’s. There is a further 23 hectares of land that is readily available for use. The potential is enormous.”

To accompany its world-class facilities and assets, Freeport has a well-trained workforce of over 5,000 staff to provide a world-class service for its clients.

“Having a well-trained and efficient workforce is important for the future success of the terminal. Our port operations and activities take up between 60-70% of our staff base and we need to work quickly and efficiently for our

clients. There is also a strong safety culture here at Freeport as we have a responsibility to look out for our employees. We are OHSAS certified and there are regular audits on our staff safety measures. We are a very customer focused business at Freeport, and to provide good service you need the staff to deliver it.”

Until the Panama Canal expansion venture is completed, Freeport will be placing its main focus on steady, organic growth as the company seeks to consolidate its business.

Over the course of 2013, the company will concentrate on seeking potential new clients from larger shipping lines who as well as being enticed by the company and its capabilities, will also look to take advantage of a range of investor advantages and incentives, which include having to pay no taxes on profits, capital gains and imported or exported goods.

“Our main customer is the shipping line MSC but we have the capacity here to take on more business. We’re very actively seeking new customers and are trying to bring in one or two more big clients to work with.”

It is also possible that Freeport will begin long awaited work on the Phase V Development of Freeport according to Knowles, who said: “This phase of expansion which would increase our capacity from 1.5mn TEU’s to 1.7mn TEU’s is something we are looking at this year. Of course capital investment is only happening when it is really needed due to the tepid global economy, but should sustained volume increase this year as expected, development will begin.”

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National Energy Corporation of Trinidad and Tobago www.nec.co.tt +1 868 636 8471 Written by Daemon Sands

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National Energy Corporation of Trinidad and Tobago

The sun-kissed Caribbean state of Trinidad and Tobago has seen its increasingly buoyant economy take great strides forward in recent years, as a result of its world-class natural gas, oil and petrochemicals sector.

The ever increasing growth of, and investment into these industries indicate that the future looks increasingly golden for Trinidad and Tobago, its economy and its inhabitants; especially as plans to use these resources to diversify into new markets are on the table. Dr. Vernon Paltoo, President of the National Energy Corporation of Trinidad and Tobago told Endeavour Magazine more about the company and the state of the industry.

Trinidad & Tobago is one of the richest countries in the Caribbean and unlike many of its neighbours, boasts a robust industrialised economy with a rich heritage in the natural gas, oil and petrochemical industries. Today the nation is one of the leading global exporters of liquefied natural gas (LNG), methanol and ammonia; a point highlighted by the fact that Trinidad and Tobago supplies the US with over 70% of its LNG requirements via the Atlantic LNG Company and its four trains which produce and transport 14.8 million tons of LNG each year. Statistically speaking, the energy sector accounts for around 40% of Trinidad and Tobago’s GDP and nearly 80% of its export market, so it is therefore of little surprise that many industry experts consider the nation’s

facilities to be world-class, such is the investment in the energy sector and the hundreds of billions of dollars that are at stake.

The National Energy Corporation of Trinidad and Tobago – a wholly owned subsidiary of the National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago – has for more than 30 years been committed to providing an invaluable service to its parent company and the wider national gas industry, through its role in supporting the infrastructure and development of the nation’s gas based energy industry, not to mention its role in developing new business and investment within the sector.

Setup in 1979 to continue the work first started by the Coordinating Task Force in monetising the country’s extensive natural gas resources and establishing an industrial and marine infrastructure, the National Energy Corporation of Trinidad and Tobago Limited (NEC) is true to its company mandate which states that its core business is “the conceptualisation, promotion, development and facilitation of new energy-based and downstream industries in Trinidad and Tobago.” Though this may perhaps sound ambiguous, the range of services that the NEC provides is as vast and varied as this mandate suggests.

In its primary role as overseer to the nation’s gas-based industry infrastructure, the NEC is tasked with being responsible for the development and identification of new industrial estates as well as the deep water ports that service them, with such projects providing a crucial contribution to the national economy through the creation of strategic national assets in the marine, energy and infrastructure sectors. This infrastructure development function spans the full spectrum of procurement, design, project implementation and supervision of publicly funded projects, and sees the NEC working closely alongside the relevant statutory bodies and authorities in order to achieve optimal results for the industry’s stakeholders, which include government, local and international investors, consultants and contractors.

In addition to this, the NEC is also responsible for the maintenance and management of Trinidad and Tobago’s two existing industrial estates and port facilities which are essential in servicing the nation’s energy and industrial sectors. Supervising the smooth operation of the La Brea Industrial Estate and Port -which is comprised of 400-acres of land developed for industrial use, an $80 million fabrication facility that has successfully completed 9 offshore platforms since 2010, and the port facility which can accommodate cargo shipping and provide maintenance and repairs - is important in this respect. The newly completed

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Union Industrial Estate and Port of Brighton also falls under the NEC’s remit, and has provided a further 400-hectares of land catering specifically for both the heavy and light downstream gas-based industries. With 307m of quay wall that can accommodate vessels of up to Handymax size, a harbour depth of 12.8m and capacity for the storage of high volumes of goods, this new estate has added another string to the bow of NEC and has greatly improved the capabilities and scale of Trinidad and Tobago’s energy infrastructure. A new phase of development for industries at Union Industrial Estate, which will thereby allow for further expansion of its downstream energy sector and the generation of greater economic activity in the south-eastern region of the country, is due in the near future.

However although existing downstream natural gasbased ventures have been economically beneficial to Trinidad & Tobago in terms of revenue, employment and capital creation, Dr. Vernon Paltoo, President of the NEC, believes that there is scope for improvement and evolution, in that a greater value added element of monetising natural gas occurs when products such as LNG, ammonia, methanol and iron are used in the production of tertiary and consumer goods – derivative products, and that this opens up new opportunities for the islands.

“New businesses centred on these downstream derivative products would allow for levels of product differentiation that do not exist in the production of primary chemicals such as methanol and ammonia In this regard, the strategy for development of the downstream natural gas industry is premised on building a diversified and sustainable energy industry. As such, new projects would focus on downstream developments and opportunities which include higher valued products, thus creating greater added-value for our natural gas resource, as well as increased employment opportunities. This shift in focus will also create enhanced potential and a wider base for research and development, thus leading to a knowledgebased and more technologically advanced industry. More importantly, the output from the energy sector would be used to create real and sustainable opportunities in other areas of the economy, such as the manufacturing sector.”

To take the business on this exciting new tangent, the NEC will tap into its wealth of experience in providing consultancy and advisory services to the energy industry as it seeks new investment. In regards to its ability to develop and cultivate new business, the NEC has considerable Endeavour Magazine • April 2013 • 46

expertise, and its 120 direct employees - who Dr. Paltoo describes as “all-embracing and valuable contributors” and “essential to a participative work atmosphere in delivering on the company’s mandate” - provide services including project development, project appraisal and evaluation, facilitation of negotiations and discussions between investors and state agencies, discussions for gas requirements and feasibility studies.

In terms of what the future holds, Dr. Vernon Paltoo is anticipating an active year in 2013. As NEC prepares to reposition itself in the industry and press forward into new markets, the company is due to begin a rebranding project which will give the NEC a new corporate image and a fresh new look to the company.

In addition to this rebranding process, the company will also place a strong focus on completing an array of new projects which will further strengthen the NEC and add to its portfolio. More specifically, gas-based projects such as the Mitsubishi Consortium Methanol-Dimethylether (DME) Project, Gasfin Mid-scale LNG Project, MetalDom-Neal and Massy Steel Plant and Rolling Mill and the Chemtech Limited Melamine/Formaldehyde Cluster will continue apace throughout 2013. As well as these, the NEC is also focusing strongly on an infrastructure project currently in progress, the Galeota Port Project. Dr. Paltoo stated: “This development will provide an excellent opportunity to facilitate the activities and logistics requirements of exploration and production (E&P) companies, while generating both onshore and offshore economic activity in the south-eastern segment of the country. NEC’s corporatesocial responsibility involved the provision of a modern fish landing facility for the local fisherfolk, which is due to be delivered. The first phase of the Galeota Port Project will be completed by the end of 2013.”

This emphasis on aiding the Trinidad and Tobago islanders through adherence to a strong principle of corporate-social responsibility will also see NEC engage in a host of activities, having subscribed to the CSR theme: Building Capacity, Minimising Risk.

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Mosko’s Group www.mosko.com +242 362 4018 Written by Djamil Benmehidi

BUILDING A LEGACY

ONE GENERATION AT A TIME

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The Mosko brand is one which is synonymous with entrepreneurial spirit, and is a name which is well recognised in the Bahamas.

Though the group was conceived from humble beginnings, today the Mosko’s Group of companies is a regional titan within the construction sector. In addition to playing a leading role in the development and construction of the Bahamas $2.6bn dollar Arawak Port venture, Mosko’s has completed a host of multi-million dollar construction projects for the commercial and residential markets.

Behind this success stands James Mosko, the charismatic and fast talking CEO of Mosko Group and Chairman of Nassau Container Port, who took some time out to speak to Djamil Benmehidi about the remarkable story of this successful family business.

The Caribbean nation of the Bahamas is renowned the world over because of its reputation for being a tropical paradise, and its place as one of the worlds most popular tourist resorts means it needs little in the way of an introduction. The country, which is comprised of over 3,000 separate islands and lies just north of the Greater Antilles island chain, is one of the most prosperous in the Caribbean and can boast a GDP per capita which falls behind only the US and Canada in the Americas, and a standard of living among its people that is comparable with many of the worlds leading economies.

However the economy of the Bahamas is heavily dependant on the tourism industry which accounts for over 60% of the economy, and has therefore been highly susceptible to the economic tremors which have been caused by the global economic downturn. Aside from its fast growing financial services sector, the Bahamas has seen its other primary industries – the tourism industry and the construction industry – suffer somewhat in recent years. It is therefore something of an achievement that Mosko’s Group, one of the largest, private-owned construction companies in the region, has thrived in recent years as many of its rivals and competitors have faltered.

Based out of the island of New Providence in the Bahamas, Mosko’s Group – an umbrella company made up of Mosko’s United Construction Co. Limited, Bahamas Marine Construction Co. Limited, Mosko Hardform Bahamas and three other building supplies companies – offers a range of construction services to its clients that have been honed to perfection through decades of experience in the industry. As demonstrated by the extensive portfolio of completed buildings and construction projects under its belt, the company has the capability to successfully take on multi-million dollar projects independently, as well as lead the line in larger billion dollar collaboration ventures with other companies and investors. Though the activities of the

Group’s construction companies focus primarily on general building contracting and development as well as the lucrative marine construction market, in the words of James Mosko, the Group “has its fingers in many pies”, and is also active in concrete moving, and earth moving, not to mention the supply of ready mixed concrete, bulk cement and aggregates.

In addition to this, Mosko’s Group is also active within property development, the real estate market, and enjoys equity interests and operations in numerous other sectors.

However in spite of the company’s success, Mosko’s has to this day remained a family business and has retained the values and entrepreneurial spirit upon which its reputation and success was built.

The Mosko’s story began back in 1925 when the family patriarch and master craftsman, James Mosko founded Mosko’s Furniture and Cabinet Works, following his arrival to the Bahamas from his home country of Greece. The Mosko’s Group of Companies has since evolved from a small family trade into the success story it is today, due to the fact that each successive generation of the Mosko family has not only continued the work of their fathers and grandfathers, but demonstrated their own entrepreneurial credentials by taking the family business that one step further onto the next level.

“Since our grandfather came over, Mosko’s has grown, in that each generation has added to the business and caused it to grow exponentially. Myself, my brothers and the rest of the family all work closely together on business matters, and today the primary focus is on the general construction

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sector, marine construction, and the supply of materials and aggregates. This substantial growth is important to us as a bigger family means more mouths to feed, and of course we want to maintain a good lifestyle for ourselves and our staff.”

Mosko’s United Construction Co. Limited, which was established in 1958 by George Mosko, has over four decades of construction experience and a long list of prestigious multi-million dollar projects to its credit. In recent years Mosko’s United Construction has been particularly active within hotel construction, as illustrated by the completion of the 150-bedroom Comfort Suites building for the Paradise Island Hotel and the redevelopment of The Royal Bahamian Hotel for holiday group Sandals. The company has also been active in building the office space which is so essential for the country’s booming financial services sector, and recently Mosko’s has completed work on a four-storey, 70,000sq.ft state-of-the-art office complex for the National Insurance Board, as well as a two-story, 17,000sq.ft corporate headquarters for Family Guardian Insurance Limited.

The Group’s marine construction arm, Bahamas Marine Construction, was established in 1980 and has designed and built a variety of public and private marine facilities throughout the Bahamas and the Turks & Caicos Islands. As the leading marine and earthworks construction company on the Islands, activities for clients include executing mass excavation, piling, bulkhead, dock, bridge, dredging, and salvaging operations. Some of the Company’s notable construction accomplishments include the earthworks of the Atlantis Phase II marina and tunnel, the enclosed marine environment for the recreational facilities at Blue Lagoon of Salt Cay, and the marina for the Ocean Club Residences and Marina Development.

The third primary business within Mosko’s Group is Mosko Hardform Bahamas Ltd, a company which has earned a solid reputation for reliability in providing a full range of concrete services. Specializing in forming and reinforced concrete placement in the Bahamas, the company operates in conjunction with the Bahamian corporation, Mosko’s United Construction Co. Ltd., as well as two Canadian corporations, Structform International and Hardrock Forming Co. To date, Mosko Hardform has completed the Paradise Blue Waters Condominiums project, the Atlantis Phase III spa, and the Atlantis Phase III Dolphin Encounter Building.

The last few years have been kind to Mosko’s Group, with the company having enjoyed the busiest 3 years in its history as a result of its role in leading the $2.6bn Arawak Cay construction project from 2009 until its completion in 2012.

With James Mosko himself at the helm of the project via his role as Chairman of Arawak Port Development Limited, a

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venture involving investors and shareholders from both the public and private sectors, Mosko’s Group utilised its wealth of construction industry expertise to play a primary role in the development and construction of the port, as well as the Gladstone Freight Terminal which was also built to facilitate it. When asked what the key to his company’s success was, James answered: “I would say the key to both mine and Mosko’s success has been a lot of hard work, a good education, using common sense, being surrounded by good people who are smarter than me and a lot of luck!

Aside from the odd issue, we have thrived because we had a long term game-plan over the last 15 years and have invested heavily in our businesses, while also getting a lot of lucky breaks. We try to fly under the radar a bit in terms of how we do business. We have our fingers in many pies and are involved in many different business operations, we have many partners to work with when taking on projects, and numerous investments and stakes in many areas; all of this helps spread the burden for Mosko’s. We have risked what we could afford to lose and consolidated the business; we are very conservative like that.”

In particular, James gave much of the credit for the success of Mosko’s Group to his staff, who he believes are instrumental in its good work.

“There are over 1,000 people working for the Group. We have the best group working for us and everybody from the laborers to the mechanics to the management are brilliant.

They are all young, talented, hungry and smarter than me!

Here in the Bahamas we attract talent from all over the world and to keep the best guys, I compensate them properly and make sure everyone is treated well. You have to beware the high cost of cheap labor.”

When asked what the future holds for Mosko’s Group, James insisted that 2013 would be something of a less frenetic year in comparison to 2012.

“We’re good for the next few years and that is a very nice thing to be able to say. We are a fairly big business now and we can comfortably do the $50-60 million jobs on our own so we don’t have any plans to expand much more. We are large enough now and are following a path of consolidating our business and its future rather than expansion.

It’s a family business and we are the third generation now in the construction business, but something we may look to do in the next few years is restructure the company a little and bring in a few guys from outside the family to help run the ship. The business is so big now that though it will always remain a family business, bringing in a few experienced outsiders is in Mosko’s best interest for the future.”

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Technip Malaysia

With enormous growth potential in Asia Pacific, companies in the region such as Technip Malaysia are focussing ever more on building their staff and developing their technology to further increase the lead on the competition during this promising period.

Jack Slater discusses this with COO Hallvard Hasselknippe.

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Technip Kuala Lumpur is the leading engineering technology solutions and turnkey contracting provider in Asia Pacific for the design and construction of hydrocarbon field development, oil refining, gas processing, petrochemicals and selected non-hydrocarbon projects.

Supported by powerful economies who have outlived the spasms of the global crunch the Asia Pacific region is in a state of rapid development. Buoyed by financial strength and the discovery of new oil and gas resources this region has become the literal Elderado and, a world leader in engineering and project management Technip Malaysia has an advantageous foothold on the region and a highly recognized history of over thirty years working in the region.

Onshore, they develop engineering, technology, construction and project management for gas treatment and liquefaction (LNG), gas-to-liquid (GTL) and oil refining facilities, onshore pipelines. Their petrochemical industry recently diversified into biofuels, renewable energy and nonoil activities such as metals and mining.

Offshore specialises in engineering and fabrication of fixed shallow water platforms, floating deep water platforms which include spar, semi-submersible, TLP, FPSO and floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) units.

Subsea, they design and manufacture pipework and fixtures between the underwater well and the topside which they also install having curtailed the production from initial start design through manufacture and construction to commissioning.

Oil and gas development in deepsea locations is only possible thanks to continuous and ongoing development, particularly in areas that would not have been considered before. It is these niche positions where their business is rapidly expanding.

Technip Malaysia

“Just under half of our global business is dedicated to the Subsea Division,” Hallvard explains, “It is not as developed in the Asia Pacific but there is a deep market, particularly in the deepwater fields of Indonesia and Malaysia.

“We are in the tendering and construction phases in Australia such as the Ichthys and Gorgon gas fields off the north-west coast and are expecting deepwater projects off the coast of Brunei in the future.”

It is believed that this region could become the biggest subsea market globally and therefore it requires a strategic development and building of people, assets and technology.

Without a doubt one of the largest investments in recent years in this region as been the construction of the Asiaflex Products manufacturing plant at Tanjung Langsat, Malaysia.

Production at the new facility is project oriented: flexible pipe and umbilicals can be designed and engineered for specific projects and manufactured to a high specification using processes that have been developed by Technip globally over the last 35 years. ©Technip

It used to be that the Asia Pacific region relied on imported products from the company’s other global manufacturing sites so it is an important development that the plant not only produces products for the local region, but exports them to Technip operations in Brazil, India and West Africa.

November 2010 saw the official opening of the plant which sits alongside a new offshore logistics base that has become the hub of the region’s subsea operations. Taking up 20 hectares of waterfront with direct access to all the major shipping routes to Asia and the rest of the world, the site also houses a fabrication yard producing subsea structures and a dedicated quay equipped to accommodate and load most subsea construction vessels and barges.

In December 2011, the acquisition of Global Industries, which is a Houston based subsea pipe laying company saw the increase to Technip Malaysia’s fleet of vessels from twenty to over thirty and brought on an additional 2300 people to the workforce.

“We’re very excited about the merger,” Hallvard says.

“Global Industries has strong resources and expertise in Singapore and Batam, and one of the primary assets we will benefit from with the merger in this region is Global 1201, a newly built vessel with S-lay and heavy lift capabilities.”

Preparation is one of the main objectives that must be addressed for the future of the Subsea Division. An increase of the trained workforce will need to be addressed even further if they are to keep up with the demand not only for their one-stop-shop services and products but also for the demands of the industry to produce trained and experienced individuals.

“It’s too late to recruit when you have a job to start,” Hallvard explains, “You need to be able to forecast the requirements and predict the staffing needs so you can stay ahead.”

Recruitment and training go hand in hand and includes identifying suitable skilled expats, taking on graduates and promoting people from within to make use of the pool of talent they already have developed.

Major recruitment took place as the Asiaflex Products plant was completed. “Over 350 people are employed at the plant, after from a standing start. We recruited trainers, we sent people to gain experience from other plants and looked at setting the standard very high.”

Thanks to the deep resources of oil and gas in the region the future for the industry is only going to increase and thanks to their preparation and the foundation they have been setting over the past three decades Technip Malaysia are perfectly placed to lead this industry.

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Yemen National Cement Company www.nccyemen.com +967 2 510800 Written by Jack Slater

SET IN CONCRETE

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Yemen National Cement Company

Demand for cement in Yemen has always been higher than supplies were able to provide for, but thanks to private sector investment this has become more manageable over recent years. In 2008 local supply was estimated to be exceeding domestic demand by 2013 and Yemen then transformed into a cement exporter.

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Up to 2008, The Republic of Yemen’s cement supply was attributed to three wholly owned government cement plants.

However, faced with increasing local demand and rising cement imports a decision had to be made by the directors to invest in the first Yemen private cement plant. Just like that National Cement Company (NCC) was created.

Part of the HSA Group NCC is the first company focussed on the cement industry in a family of companies offering a range of services to a number of different industries including, food and commodity retailing and importer/exporting and quite a heavy involvement in the food manufacturing industry. Vegetable oil, dairy products, lubricant oils, canned foods, corrugated boxes, confectionery, flour milling and, most recently, sugar milling.

In addition to these manufacturing activities, the group is also involved in the trading, banking, shipping, insurance, hotel services, healthcare and hospital industries. And, represents global companies in the automotive sector offering them an imput to Yemen, these include Ford, Hyundai and Porsche. With over 30 000 people employed, HSA Group is one of the biggest and most well placed group of companies in the Middle East.

With this sort of experience backing, NCC was established in 2003 in Wadi Saim in the governorate of Lahj which is ideally situated 70 kilometres northeast of the city of Aden which benefits from a Freeport with a deep sea harmour that can accommodate Panamax sized vessels.

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and is ideal for import and export purposes. Additionally, the factory is located close to the main limestone and sandstone mines and NCC owns and operates the two mines that are part of its site, while the rest of its materials come from other nearby mines some of which are owned by the HAS Group.

Production is focussed on OPC (Ordinary Portland Cement) and SRC (Sulphate Resistant Cement) in bulk and 50kg bags.

For the latter NCC procures its polypropylene bags from its sister company in Aden, AIC (Al-Alam Industry Company).

All cement if produced according to ASTM and EN standards and the plant is in the final stage of finalising the launch of its third type of cement- PPC (Portland Pozzolana Cement) which will be the first time that this cement has been produced in Yemen.

The high quality cement is sold through approved local distributors, as well as large construction projects. These would involve residential developments, real estate and land development projects. While transport is outsourced NCC have the capability to deliver their own product using a small fleet of vehicles.

NCC employs over 750 people, including a number of highly qualified foreign staff who are considered experts in their respective fields and as policy they provide structured training programmes for its local employees to ensure that

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through them the quality of their product remains as high as possible.

NCC benefits from their own power plant, water treatment plan, on-site housing colony, security service and all sales are also conducted from the plant site itself rather than a separate sales office. Keeping as much internally as possible.

Although subcontracting is the norm, there is a clear move toward self-sufficiency. In areas where the required quality of work is not available from local subcontractors their policy is to train locally capable subcontractors and eventually outsource these jobs when they are capable of providing the level of quality the plant requires.

The kiln is coal-powered, while the plants electricity is currently produced by their own diesel powered generation plant. Due to the unpredictability of diesel supply and the effect it has on local diesel prices. However they are considering alternative fuels for power generation. To that end they have invested in a state-of-the-art thermal power plant, which is currently going through its final phases of performance guarantee tests before start up.

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