Jafza participates in Car Free Day

Jebel Ali Free Zone (Jafza), the flagship free zone business of Dubai and the trade and logistics hub for the wider Middle East region, joined “Car Free Day” initiative of Dubai Municipality which aims at creating awareness about the critical importance of sustainable ecosystem for well-being of the community and how individuals can contribute in making Dubai an ecofriendly city.

About 100 Jafza employees including Adel Bin Turkeya, Chief Resources Officer and other senior executives used Metro to come to work in the Free Zone. 

Ibrahim Mohamed Aljanahi, Deputy CEO of Jafza and Chief Commercial Officer of Economic Zones World, the parent company of the Free Zone said: “Our participation in this yearly event aims at encouraging more and more employees to use public transportation as much as possible with the purpose of playing their role in reducing carbon emissions emitted by thousands of cars every day on road in the Emirate. We want to make the use of public transport a way of life.” 

Since 2008, Jafza has implemented numerous green initiatives for their old and new facilities. Examples are expanding sewage treated effluent water network for irrigation, harvesting AC drainage for irrigation, monitoring and controlling of air conditioning with BMS and Timers, solar LED and LED street lighting in Jafza South, switching off lights after office hours, occupancy lights sensors, changing existing office lights to more energy efficient lighting (fluorescent T5 type and LED lights), sustainable interior LED lighting in offices, optimizing on lighting illuminations in corridors and offices, optimizing electrical loads for warehouses, sustainable designs of warehouses and buildings to Green Regulations and enhancing security controls.