Mr Roger Chia Kim Piow receives New Silk Road CEO of the Year Award
8 October 2019- Mr. Roger Chia Kim Piow, Chairman & Managing Director ofRotary Engineering Pte. Ltd, received the 2019 Aramco Trading New Silk Road CEO of the Year Award from His Highness Sheikh Saleh Bin Mohammed Bin Hamad Al-Shariq on 30 September 2019.
Mr. Roger Chia has been awarded the prize as the New Silk Road CEO of the Year Award in the category of Storage. This is to commemorate his outstanding achievement for the advancement of the oil storage industry on the new Silk Road.
This prestigious award, conferred by Aramco Trading, was inaugurated in theyear 2017 by the government of Fujairah to grant pioneering industry leaders who are spearing the East-of-Suez energy markets, and at the same time reaffirm Fujairah’s 500-year old commitment to facilitate trade on this ancient route; hence this Aramco Trading New Silk Road CEO of the Year Awards are presented to the winners in four key sectors: Trading, Refining, Ports and Storage .
Other winners include Admiral Mohab Mohamed Hussein Mamish, Presidential Adviser and recently retired Chairman of Egypt’s Suez Canal Authority, for Ports, Mr. Arif Mahmood, CEO of Downstream, PETRONAS, for Oil Refining, and Mr. Thomas Waymel, President of Trading & Shipping for TOTAL, for Energy Trading.
In his speech after receiving the award, Mr. Roger Chia said that he dedicates the award to his clients, business partners, colleagues and the United Emirates Governments , such as the Fujairah Municipality and the
Fujairah Free Zone.
He added that the business-friendly environment of the Emirates authorities helped create a lot of opportunities in Fujairah as one of the largest bunkering Hub in the Middle East. Some of his landmark projects comprise of the
successful Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) delivery of Fujairah Oil Terminal (FOT) and Port of Fujairah VLCC Project.
Mr. Roger Chia pointed out that besides establishing his current foothold as a recognized multinational turnkey engineering design and construction group, he sees new opportunities in LNG, solar energy and renewables in Fujairah
and UAE.His experience in developing the Group from a subcontractor to becoming a leading turnkey design and engineering group enables him to embrace changes and adapt to innovative approaches in the industry.
This award bagged by Mr. Roger Chia is the contemporary accolade conferred to him, following his earlier awards as the Chief Executive Officer of the Year (Companies with $300 million to $1 billion in market capitalization) at the
Singapore Corporate Awards 2009, Businessman of the Year at the Singapore Business Awards 2011, and the Public Service Medal by the President of Singapore in 2010 in recognition of his community services.