SupplyChain Magazine September 2014 | Page 90

SKA INTERNATIONAL
Offloading cargo

80,000

Planned number of tonnes of fuel storage available at the Port of Khor Al Zubair

Khor Al Zubair Iraq represents arguably the greatest challenges but also the greatest amount of activity for SKA , which operates under nine companies across six Middle Eastern and African countries .
Its current flagship investment lies at the Port of Khor Al Zubair , the first privately-owned fuel storage facility in Iraq , with a 20,000 tonne capacity , set to rise to 80,000 once phases two and three are completed .
The expansion , which will take total spend to upwards of $ 80 million , will allow SKA to deliver more fuel to power vital industries in the future .
“ We have encountered some significant challenges but we are very active , supplying fuel
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