Portia Management Services
Portia Management Services
Removed from the Dirty List 11 March 2021
Portia have been removed from the Dirty List following confirmation that they will not renew or extend their contract managing the military-owned port in Yangon.
Added to the Dirty List 20 August 2019
Background
Portia Management Services is a British company specialising in the management of ports, and operating ports all over the world. It operates TMT Port in Yangon jointly with local Burmese company KT Services. The port is owned by the military controlled Myanmar Economic Holdings Ltd.
Contact:
Commitment Pays Off, Portia management Services Website, 4th April 2017, accessed August 2019
http://portiamanagement.com/commitment-pays-off/
KT Group website accessed August 2019
https://ktgroup.com/core-business/
Military Firm Takes Control of Jetty in Rangoon, Wai Moe, The Irrawaddy, 7th July 2010
https://www2.irrawaddy.com/article.php?art_id=18899
Added to the Dirty List 20 August 2019
This entry was corrected on 23rd August 2019 to remove Peel Ports after we learned they had sold their subsidiary, Portia Management Services, which operates a military-owned port in Burma. Portia Management Services has replaced Peel Group on the ‘Dirty List’.
Update 23 June 2020
We have received notification from Portia Management Services that they have no plans to renew or extend their contract managing the military-owned port in Yangon. They will be removed from the Dirty List when the current contract ends in 2021.
Removed from the Dirty List 11 March 2021
The Dirty List
The Dirty List names international companies doing business with the military in Burma. The list also includes international companies involved in projects where there are human rights violations or environmental destruction.
In September 2018, the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on Myanmar, which has been investigating human rights violations in the country, stated:
“The actions of the Tatmadaw (Burmese military) in Kachin, Rakhine and Shan States, in particular in the context of the ‘clearance operations’ in northern Rakhine State in 2016 and 2017, have so seriously violated international law that any engagement in any form with the Tatmadaw, its current leadership, and its businesses, is indefensible.”
A PDF of the full Dirty List is available here.