EGA inks contract with Maersk for worldwide aluminium shipment

Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) reportedly announced in a press release that it entered into a volume commitment extension contract with the global shipping company A.P. Moller – Maersk, in a bid to transport aluminium to all around the world.

Maersk is one of EGA’s most significant shipping partners and has supplied shipping services to the UAE aluminium giant since 1992.

Currently, EGA exports aluminium to customers in more than 60 countries worldwide, through 20 different shipping lines, and makes more than 11,000 shipments each year using over 100,000 containers.

EGA’s aluminium is the second largest made-in-the UAE export after oil and gas. In 2018, EGA produced 2.6 million tonnes of cast metal. Over 80 per cent of EGA’s production is value added products, one of the largest among any aluminium company in the world.

Walid Al Attar, EGA’s Chief Marketing Officer, said: “EGA has a track record stretching back decades as a reliable supplier of high quality aluminium worldwide for our customers. Meeting our customers’ expectations depends on both the quality of our production and the efficiency of getting the metal to them, so I am pleased to sign this agreement today with one of our most important shipping partners, Maersk.”

Christopher Cook, Managing Director for Maersk in UAE, Oman and Qatar, said: “EGA is a long-standing key customer of Maersk, and we are grateful for their continuing trust. As the global integrator of container logistics, this agreement enables us to continue to partner with EGA to ensure their aluminium reaches their customers as fast and as cost-effectively as possible.”