IMPORTANCE OF

ADR TRAININGIN

“ LAS REGION “

Cairo, 23 Oct 2011

Bahiej Al BiqawiDirector, Supply Chain Management , Al Majdouie Group KSA

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One of the most growing sectors; it goes in line with any growth regardless from where it comes.

Introduction of New Business Lines, ( i.e. Warehousing, Packaging, Door to Door Distribution , …)

Transport companies are more of family businesses with wide range of small size ones.

The Arab world highly depends on drivers from Non-Arab countries and some with no experience sometimes.

The Low Perception of Driver profession looked at as low and less important.

High Unemployment rates among many of the Arab countries

Transport Sector

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Road Accident Costs by Region (US$ billion)

Region Regional GNP 1997

Estimated Annual Accident Costs

GNP per cent Cost

Africa 370 1.0 3.7Asia 2454 1.0 24.5Latin America/ Caribbean

1890 1.0 18.9

Middle East 495 1.5 7.4Central & Eastern Europe

659 1.5 9.9

HMC 22,665 2.0 453.0Total 518.0

• In 2005 the total cost of accident was 815 Billion.

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Accidents all over the world

• Syria

• Egypt

• Saudi Arabia

• A REVIEW OF GLOBAL ROAD ACCIDENTS FATALITIES• G D Jacobs & Amy Aeron-Thomas

• # of accident fatality in

KSA in 2009 was

6,400.

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• Syria

• Egypt

• Saudi Arabia

• A REVIEW OF GLOBAL ROAD ACCIDENTS FATALITIES

• G D Jacobs & Amy Aeron-Thomas 5

We need to…• Have Safer Roads & Reduce the No. of Accidents.

• Deliver On Time and Have Better Customer Service.

• Generate More Money to the Business.

• Have Satisfied Drivers/employees and Less Work Related Stress.

• Retain staff , customers and Drivers.

•How to do it?6

Training… is it important?

• An average of 17 Saudi Arabian residents die on the country’s roads each day, a report by the Kingdom’s General Directorate of Traffic has revealed.

• Estimate that 8000 people are killed and 32,000 hurt on Egyptian road accidents each year.

• By the year 2020 forecasts suggest that as a cause of death, road accidents will move up to third place

• 60 Billion $ the cost of accident in Arab countries.

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Land Transport opportunities and Market

Very common : as the railways and sea are poor or not convenient

Faster between LAS countries Distances are not too much far Very good infrastructure Better Promotion for trade exchange between LAS

countries

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Obstacles

Lack of qualified and professional Arab truck drivers to cover demand

Highly depending on non Arab drivers with different qualifications and languages

Lack of specialized training Lack of LAS countries traffic and transit

regulations Un unified formalities and procedures and

documentation High rate of accidents

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European Agreement concerning International Carriage

of Dangerous Good By Road

It is a European standards implemented on 47 countries ,

in Arab countries is implemented in Morocco, Tunisia

ADR as part of the solution

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• Drivers Training • Types of Transport Vehicles • Safety & Security • Managing Accidents with Dangerous Goods• Fire Fighting Techniques & First Aid Training • Labeling Issues for Dangerous Goods• Packaging issues • Vehicle Marketing with International Standards Marks• Transport Document Required • Using of Orange Plate • Mixed loading

ADR Covers …..

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• Agreement to use worldwide agreed upon standard labeling

• Agreement on Unifying all transport documents• Agreement on using orange plate

Arab Countries… Where to Start

As a first stage

Arab Countries… Where to Start

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Drivers Training Managing Accident with Dangerous Goods Packaging procedures and standards Mixed loading standards and regulations

As a Second stage

• complete

partitions

• tomato

• milk

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Why ADR...

Easy to implement Ready standards Applicable for all with minor modification Implemented in neighbor countries Less investment Arab Accredited trainings institutes and Arab

trainers are available to start with

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Al Majdouie Experience

AL Majdouie through its Logistics Training arm Middle East Logistics Institute accredited by IRU as an ADR training provider

We started provide ADR training to own drivers

Ability to provided training in three languages (Arabic, English, Urdu)

Today we have the first 6 ADR certified drivers

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Are we ready ?

•“Tell me and I forget, teachme and I remember, involve me and I learn.”

•- Benjamin Franklin

But we should start with Awareness and Training

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Industry and government in the United States spend approximately $90 billion each year on

employee training and education.

Average Japanese companies spend about 6% of budget on training.

Examples of Training Investment

Do Less today, Save lives …….

and More.

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