Abu Dhabi Ports Company (ADPC) introduced ‘green’ business practices and took new initiatives to cut the organisations environmental impact still further. After the successful implementation of their multi-awarded virtualization project, moving from 250 to less than 20 physical IT servers, resulting in energy, electricity and power consumption to be reduced by 80%.
ADPC’s ICT Services has now put further innovative environmental friendly strategies in place, not only saving energy but natural resources as well.
Across company’s office and logistics landscape, the focus has been on reducing paper usage. Besides setting all printer default settings to double sided printing, more than 450 services, ranging from HR and Finance to Procurement and Customer Relationship Management Services, have now been converted from hard copy manual papers to more environmentally friendly electronic forms.
The company digitalised all its archive with a total sum of six terabyte of data, mostly pdf-files, has been collected to date, saving around 3000 billion pages of printed material. It further plans to reduce the amount of paper usage in ADPC offices by the end of this year.
In addition, all toners, cartridges papers and drums are being recycled, and video conferencing is being promoted across all the office sites to reduce travelling and minimize the company’s carbon footprint.
Commenting on ADPC’s ‘green’ business practices, Saif Al Ketbi, vice president Information Technology, ADPC ICT Services, said, “We work to improve ADPC’s environmental performance continuously by implementing most effective software strategies that not only save time but help reduce energy consumption and preserve precious natural resources.”
