BCCI committees restructured

Manama : Bahrain Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) has been restructured its committees. BCCI Chairman Sameer Abdulla Nass announced the new-look format as part of efforts to enhance committees’ work, achieve present objectives and plans and reach out to the trade community. 

In a statement issued yesterday, he said that some committees have been merged and new ones to meet the effective needs of the market as part of efforts to bolster non-oil economy in Bahrain. The restructured chamber will include ten committees in charge of industry and energy; real estate and construction; transportation and logistics services; health; finance, insurance and taxation; food resources; technology; hospitality and services and markets.

BCCI chairman said that new procedures will be enforced and committees subjected to assessment as part of commitment to carry out the board of directors’ strategy and meet the aspirations of the private sector.

He thanked the committees’ restructuring panel which included board member Sonia Janahi as chairperson, in addition to members Basem Al-Sae, Shaikh Hend bint Salman Al-Khalifa, Dr. Mohammed Jamaan, Khalid Al-Qaoud, Faisal Ali Redha, Yacoub Al-Awadhi and Ala’a Aljar.  He unveiled plans to hold an annual forum which would focus on key business issues set by different BCCI panels, stressing commitment to transparency standards and keenness on engaging all members in assessing and rectifying the BCCI path. 

He stressed the importance of turning restructuring panels under the first 100-day strategy which aims at turning Beit El-Tejjar into a modern digital platform to serve the trading community and the national economy and contributing to transforming Bahrain into financial and business hub in the Middle and Near East and North Africa.