Total Exploration and Production (E&P) Upstream Limited has expressed delight over growth in relationship with the Port Harcourt Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (PHCCIMA).
Total has been a major partner to the Port Harcourt chambers, striving to forge ties that have boosted local participation in the oil and gas industry.
The deputy managing director of the company, Nicolas Brunet, stated this when a delegation of PHCCIMA led by the president, Emeka Unachukwu, visited the company.
He said PHCCIMA and Total shared similar objectives and assured the delegation that he would do all within his powers to further strengthen the relationship.
Earlier on in his remark, the PHCCIMA president, Unachukwu, had welcomed the new DMD to Nigeria, noting that the chamber is an organisation with over 900 strong company-members that are very influential cutting across various professions and who also advocate for policies that allow businesses to thrive in the region.
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According to him, since 2005, Total has been quite instrumental in supporting the activities of PHCCIMA, notably in the area of sponsoring trade missions and also in the area of carrying out its corporate social responsibilities in the most sublime way.
He said, “This emphasis is just to bring to the fore that the chamber has a long standing relationship with Total E&P and France the home country. We have a bilateral relationship with Lyon, Bordeaux and Paris chambers of commerce and PHCCIMA have contributed in facilitating business interface between French and Nigerian companies”.
This, he said, is further demonstrated as PHCCIMA is a very strong member of the Nigerian French Chamber of Commerce.
The PHCCIMA president, however, called for more assistance in the sponsorship of members on trade mission, observing that the number presently sponsored was relatively not enough to accommodate vast business interests that abound in this end.
