Grand Arabia Forwarding & Fortune International wins Shamsuna solar project

Grand Arabia Forwarding and FORTUNE International Transport srl were recently awarded the customs clearance and local land trucking in addition to some seafreight, airfreight, and land freight services for one of the Solar projects in Jordan “Shamsuna PV Solar Project” in Aqaba.

Shamsuna PV Solar Project is a 10 MW solar PV power plant located in the Aqaba Special Economic Zone, South East of Aqaba, Jordan. All output generated by the project will be sold to Jordan’s National Electric Power Company (“NEPCO”) under a 20-year Power Purchase Agreement (“PPA”). The project also comprises the construction of a 6km 33kV transmission line connecting to a NEPCO substation in Aqaba’s thermal power station.

The project is part of the GoJ’s Renewable Energy Program, which aims to increase renewable energy contribution to 10% of the country’s generation mix by 2020.

Amjad Samawi, Project Dept. Manager at Grand Arabia said “We would like to thank Mr. Paolo Federici the General Manager of Fortune International Transport for all his attention, support, assistance, cooperation with the main contractor (EPC) in Italy for this project and assistance in securing the business jointly.”

Amjad added “I would like to add that we have sent more than 30 sales leads this year to our PCN colleagues for projects that will take place in Jordan and looking forward to securing further projects jointly with our PCN colleagues before the end of this year.”