APM Terminals Pipavav organised a week-long session of up-skilling activities for youngsters in the surrounding villages in line with the 2021 theme of “Reimaging Youth Skills Post Pandemic”. More than 500 youngsters participated in the series of webinars organised by the Port to raise awareness about skill-based employment and entrepreneurship.
APM Terminals Pipavav is committed to the empowerment of youth through its “Project Saksham”; an Employment-based skill and entrepreneurship development project. Under the initiative, it has set up the Skill and Entrepreneurship Development Institute (SEDI) in Rajula to empower youth through various up-skilling programs.
SEDI runs short term skill development courses in General Duty Assistant (GDA Nursing), Assistant Electrician, Computer Numerical Control (CNC Machine Operator), Customer Care Executive (CCE/BPO), Business Correspondence & Business Facilitator (BCBF), Fitter & Fabrication, Printed Circuit Board Assembly Operator (PCB), etc.
In a short span of four years, SEDI has skilled and placed over 1,000 young adults out of which more than 30% are women. APM Terminals Pipavav takes immense pride in guiding the local youth in the right direction. The program has so far trained over 1,331 youth across 200 villages out of which 1,038 of them have been placed and above 40 have started their establishments.
APM Terminals Pipavav believes that learning new skills is essential to foster economic growth, create jobs, reduce poverty/inequality, and strengthen the foundation of living standards in all the regions we work in. Social development and sustainability are at the forefront of all CSR activities at APM Terminals Pipavav.
In the current situation when many youths have either lost their employment or are unable to find the right job to work for, upskilling helps in refreshing their skills and facilitating them in getting employment or be self-employed.
APM Terminals Pipavav (Gujarat Pipavav Port Ltd.) is one of India’s leading gateway ports for Containers, Ro/Ro (passenger cars), Liquid Bulk, and Dry Bulk cargoes serving Northwest of India from Gujarat. The Port is connected to the North and West of Indian hinterlands via the Rail and Road network. The current annual Cargo Handling Capacity includes 1.35 million TEU Containers, 250,000 Passenger cars, 2 million metric tons of Liquid bulk, and 4 million metric tons of Dry bulk. APM Terminals Pipavav is India’s first public-private partnership (PPP) port in India and is a part of the APM Terminals global terminal network.
