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Qatari ports implement necessary preventive measures against coronavirus

Under the direction of the Ministry of Communications and Transport, Qatar Ports has implemented necessary precautionary and preventive measures against the coronavirus while maintaining the operations of its ports.

Around 801 vessels entered the port in the first quarter of 2020. The ports handled 335,928 Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units (TEUs) containers; 274,404 tonnes general cargo; 218,829 livestock heads; 81,822 tonnes building materials and 20,476 units of vehicles during the same time period.

General measures at all ports include:

• Ongoing communication with MoPH, General Authority of Customs & entities operating at ports
• Less workers at ports while securing business continuity
• Meetings via conference calls and working remotely
• Staff coming from abroad are seen by healthcare authorities
• Seafarers banned from docking at the quay & seafarer change banned at country’s ports
• Awareness sessions & periodicals on health & safety measures
• Sanitizing port facilities, distributing facemasks, sanitizers & gloves

At Hamad Port:

• Travel agents submitting medical certifications issued by IMO
• Informing MoPH of last 10 ports a vessel has visited
• Keeping the vessel at a safe zone in case any seafarer shows any symptoms
• Continuous port security patrols & no one allowed to board a vessel
• Around-the-clock monitoring O of workers’ health status &
• subgrouping them
• Shutting down some buildings such as cafeterias & banning visits

At Doha Port: Work temporarily suspended until further notice except for flour mills quay

At Ruwais Port:

• Discontinued receiving wooden ships
• Receives only reefer and livestock ships
• Tightened building access measure
Source: The Peninsula Online

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