SSIF CEO visits JPMC industrial complex

AMMAN — Social Security Investment Fund (SSIF) CEO Ezzeddin Kanakrieh held a meeting with Chairman of the Board of Jordan Phosphate Mines Company (JPMC) Mohammad Thneibat in Aqaba to discuss the company’s projects and vision. The meeting, attended by the JPMC CEO Abdel Wahab Al Rowwad and the technical team, covered the plan for expanding and developing the industrial port, according to a SSIF statement. The SSIF CEO was also briefed on the new advanced control rooms that were constructed in accordance with international standards as well as the industrial complex — the largest phosphate-based fertiliser complex in the Middle East, the statement said. The SSIF, which owns a stake of 16.5 per cent, is a strategic investor in the JPMC, the second largest exporter and the sixth producer of phosphate in the world with a production capacity exceeding 7 million tonnes of phosphate annually.