APM Terminals seeks active community involvement in every location in which we operate; in both developing and economically developed countries. Proactive participation in the health, safety and education opportunities of local communities in which we live and work is an essential part of our core company values, and a guiding factor in the way we do business around the world. These principles are integrated into our global Key Performance structure; every terminal and office dedicates resources and manpower toward specific community projects in pursuit of these goals.
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2010
• Iraq: APM Terminals Virginia (USA) teamed up with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to provide donated soccer uniforms, balls and nets to a school in the Province of Kirkuk, near a project site where the Corps is refurbishing a water treatment unit that provides the only source of water to Twaila, a remote village in northern Iraq where the school is located.
• Morocco: An ambitious Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) outreach program at APM Terminals Tangier has allocated $110,000 USD over the past year and during the 1st Quarter of 2010, along with expertise and manpower, toward the distribution of high-visibility safety yellow raincoats for local elementary schoolchildren, and to help outfit a nearby school with a specialized training center for Information and Communication Technologies (ICT).
2009
• Angola: APM Terminals project organization for Maasvlakte 2 in Rotterdam teamed up with SOGESTER in Luanda, Angola - a joint venture terminal company with local investor Gestao de Fundos and operated by APM Terminals - to send donated school furniture and equipment from the Netherlands to ‘8004 Boa Esperança 3’ school in Luanda and create a better learning environment for its students.
• Belgium: APM Terminals Zeebrugge personnel rolled up their sleeves and picked up their paint brushes as part of their ‘CSR Project of the Year’ providing a “facelift” and a new coat of paint for the “Emmanuel House”, a facility for disabled young adults in nearby Bellem.
• Denmark: APM Terminals Aarhus collected staff donations in December for the Residential Center for Children and Families in Aarhus which serves children whose mothers suffer from drug and alcohol abuse, children and young teens with mental, social and emotional problems, families who have been severely affected by long-term unemployment of the primary wage-earners, and families in which children are considered to be at risk by Social Services officials. The charity participation is a holiday season tradition for the terminal.
• Ecuador: APM Terminals’ Ecuadorian Alinport subsidiary in Posprja jumped out to an early start in CSR and community outreach by sponsoring the city’s “World Ocean Day” festivities on June 8th with the participation of more than 500 students from local schools. The new container terminal project will begin construction in 2010.
• Oman: Safety and security staff from 15 different companies gathered at the Port of Salalah for an “Occupational Safety Culture” workshop for the Oman community, conducted in partnership with job agency Manpower. The program provided the participants with useful Safety insights and awareness, beneficial to each of their own companies and functions with sessions devoted to developing practical skills, methods and strategies for teaching and promoting safety awareness within an organization.
• Spain: In collaboration with the University of Cádiz, and the local municipality of San Roque, personnel from APM Terminals Algeciras conducted a 3-day course entitled “Different Aspects of Terminal Operations” in the Andalusia region’s predominant center of higher education. Managers and employees of the terminal led seminar sessions along with company personnel from other relevant areas. While most of the 60 or so attendees were Cádiz students and graduates, other participants included local area residents who wished to learn more about the industry, and employees of other related marine businesses.
• China: APM Terminals Asia-Pacific Regional Headquarters personnel in Shanghai collected clothing, bed linens, blankets, toys and shoes delivered to the locally-based River of Hearts charity organization for distribution to those in need throughout China.
• Nigeria: West Africa Container Terminal (WACT), Maersk Line and APM Terminals collaborated on a joint citizenship project to enhance the educational environment for 2,400 students of the Ogu and Onne communities, including equipping of refurbished classrooms with a 40’ container’s worth of donated school furniture from the Netherlands.