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companies such as SABIC and Chevron Phillips – both offsite and onsite .
The firm can manage entire logistics centres or individual facilities on its client ’ s behalf and can also offer offsite multi-user facilities to manage and handle products .
Last year S . A . TALKE handled around 8.4mn tonnes of products for its customers . Yet , despite its growing reach , Klingbeil says the firm takes a project-driven approach to ensure each project receives the utmost care and diligence .
“ One of my personal goals was to step into the market in the western region . Today one of our biggest projects is the Petro Rabigh project phase II in the western region , which is a joint venture between Saudi Aramco and Sumitomo . Through the project , we manage five plants and we have started with 350 staff but we plan to increase the number of staff to up to 800 people based on how many additional projects we see there . “ Of course , we also have projects with various SABIC affiliates ,” he adds . “ We manage their Portside Logistics Facility , which is a 350,000 sqm container yard where we have the daily movement of around 500 to 700 containers .
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