BEmissionIND 🇧🇪 🇮🇳 - DAY 5: Thursday 6 March - The second day in Mumbai started with an important visit of the Proton Therapy Center at Tata Memorial Center ACTREC, the Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer where about 8000 patients are treated every year. The Belgian company IBA has several installations at this renowned hospital.
ACTREC was founded in 1941 and has nowadays 11 hospitals in 7 states in India. Thanks to the financial support of the Indian Government about 60% of the patients are treated at no or very little costs.
After a video presentation on the campus and the treatment of cancer, Dr Chaturvedi, Director at ATREC, and Mr Olivier Legrain, CEO of IBA took the floor.
Afterwards, HRH Princess Astrid and the delegation went to Taloja, east of Mumbai, to visit the John Cockerill India site where 1000 people are currently working. The guests watched a film on the history of steel since 1817 when John Cockerill acquired the Castle of Seraing until today. Then participants were invited for a guided tour of the site focusing on kaizen and  safety which is at the core of production at John Cockerill. Indeed, not one accident occurred on the Taloja site for the past 11 years.
At the end of the tour, HRH Princess Astrid planted a coconut tree, the symbol of good luck and prosperity in India.
In the afternoon, HRH Princess Astrid attended 3 seminars at the Trident hotel on different topics such as: decarbonization and global hydrogen supply chains, the positive societal impact of companies, and green steel innovation.
In the evening, the Port of Antwerp-Bruges hosted a fabulous Gala event at the Jio World Convention Centre called Excellence through Sangam. Prior to this Gala evening, the Consulate General in Mumbai organized a Ceremony of decoration of Commander of the Order of the Crown: HRH Princess Astrid personally decorated 2 personalities of the Mumbai scene: Ms Els Reynaers, Partner, Head Environment Department at M.V. Kini & Co., Advocates & Solicitors and Mr Harihar Subramanian, Managing Director at Colruyt Group India & Partner at Korys India. After this ceremony, dressed in a stunning embroidered red dress, HRH Princess Astrid entered the beautifully decorated Lotus ballroom under a shower of fresh red rose petals and was welcomed by Jacques Vandermeiren, the CEO of the Port of Antwerp-Bruges.
During the dinner, HRH Princess Astrid delivered her second speech of the mission and the famous magician Vivek Singhi invited the 600 guests to  interactively participate to magic tricks with cards. This special evening was punctuated by several musical performances and ended with a Tomorrowland dance party!
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