Steps taken to block virus
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KUWAIT CITY, Jan 29, (Agencies): The Kuwait Ports Authority (KPA) has issued seven significant and necessary instructions to all those concerned to prevent coronavirus, in addition to subjecting the Chinese ships entering Kuwaiti territorial waters to health check before allowing these ships to anchor at ports, reports Al-Rai daily.
The KPA has also taken a number of preventive measures according to which all employees of the departments affiliated to the KPA who come in direct contact with the crew members of ships to take precautionary measures to prevent the transmission of infection.
This is in addition to Department of Maritime Operations, represented by the Maritime Communications Control ‘Burj Al-Shuwaikh, Al-Shuaiba’, communicating with ships coming to the ports through wireless communications, and ask the captains of ships to disclose any cases of infection or suspicion of this virus, taking into account the importance of coordination with the health center of the port in this regard before they enter.
The supply department must urgently provide clothing, tools, equipment, and manual sterilizers, and the necessary means to prevent the transmission of infection to all employees of the authority and its affiliated facilities.
During the daily morning meeting with maritime agents and contractors, the Department of Maritime Operations must verify the ships and issue crew lists and confirm the agents provide all necessary and correct information before the ships are included in the daily bulletin.
The Maritime Operations Department must coordinate with the maritime agents to limit the entry of the crew members to Shuwaikh and Shuaiba port temporarily, except in cases of extreme necessity and emergency, after obtaining the approval of the Director of Maritime Operations Department in an official letter.
The Department of Maritime Operations, Containers and Handling in KPA shall not allow any work of unloading and shipping or any handling, boarding or landing of any of the contractors’ labor, except after the ships and their crew have been examined by the Public Health Inspector of the port’s health center and medically declared free of diseases.
The necessity of emphasizing that shipping agents do not issue temporary permits for sailors to leave the ships, except in the most extreme cases and after obtaining the approval of the Maritime Operations Department in coordination with the health center in the port.
Kuwaiti Ambassador to China Samih Johar Hayat called on Kuwaitis to refrain from visiting China unless truly necessary, due to the spread of the coronavirus.
KUWAIT CITY, Jan 29: Kuwait General Administration of Customs has yet to prepare a detailed form for the final account to give explicit information concerning debts to be collected by government despite discrepancies in the balance that appeared in the detailed forms of the administration and the said account, reports Al-Shahed daily.
The daily quoting a source explained the accounts indicated a balance of KD 196,998,782 while the main schedules showed KD 196,881,941, indicating a difference of KD 116,841 yet to be justified.
This is in addition to repeated explanation of the cause of discrepancies with the use of three expressions such as current payment, request from companies, and current debt payment.
The source pointed out that the discrepancies also covered state properties under the watch of the administration, as reflected in the final account for fiscal year 2018/2019 from the Ministry of Finance(MoF).
The ministry presented KD 422,229,750 and the administration submitted KD 422,199,521, leaving an imbalance of KD 30,229.
Meanwhile, the Central Agency for Public Tenders (CAPT) has postponed the decision on the request of the Kuwait Oil Company to reconsider the decision of the device, by agreeing to award a tender for the installation of a new main manifold for low-pressure gas and other related work in the Shuaiba industrial area to the KDDB General Trading and Contracting Company (less price) for a total of 6.631 million dinars, reports Al-Rai daily.
External
Sources said that CAPT has extended the closing date of the tender for external works for Jurassic production facilities in the areas of northern Kuwait, for a month, and rejected the request of KOC to offer a limited practice to provide unified technical programs services, because the documents of the practice are not compatible with the articles of the Public Tenders Law No. 94 of 2016.
The agency postponed deciding the company’s request for the third extension of a tender contract to and other related services concluded with Al-Wazzan Company for Trade and Food Services for a period of 12 months, the first 6 months being continuous and the next 6 months after a month, starting from Feb 9 until Feb 8, 2021, with the same conditions and prices, for a total of KD 5.732 million.