Total Drives Road Safety Awareness for Its Petroleum Product Transporters in Africa and the Middle East

TUNIS, Tunisia, October 3, 2013/ — Road transportation accidents still claim too many victims, especially young people, in Africa and the Middle East. In this geographical region, road safety is a core focus for Total (http://www.total.com), with 15 million tons of petroleum products transported each year by more than 6,400 trucks driving nearly 240 million kilometers. As part of its comprehensive road transportation strategy and different stakeholder-centric programs to reduce accidents, Total is once again driving improvement efforts.

Four conventions will bring together some 600 transporter representatives in around 50 countries from October 2013 to January 2014
Transporters’ Conventions Kick Off in Tunis on October 1 and 2, 2013

About 600 representatives of the 300 transporters with which Total’s Marketing & Services’ affiliates have contracts in Africa and the Middle East will meet at a series of conventions to be held successively in Tunis, Ouagadougou, Kampala and Douala between October 2013 and January 2014. All will be attended by members of the Management Committee of Total Marketing & Services’ Africa/Middle East Division.

The two-day conventions will be working sessions addressing four central focuses: managing drivers, managing vehicles, managing delivery routes and managing HSEQ. Total’s mandatory transportation standards and management techniques will be reviewed, and return on experience and best practices will be shared with transporters.

The conventions bolster existing programs and systems such as PATROM, the Transportation Management System (TMS), Transporter Inspection and the Golden Rule on Traffic (1), and offer a unique opportunity to more effectively network with our partners to tangibly improve petroleum product road transportation safety in Africa and the Middle East.

Distributed by the African Press Organization on behalf of the Total S.A.

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