Aramex has unveiled a state-of-the-art logistics centre in the new Beirut Free Zone LogisticsCentre, committing itself to troubled Lebanon at a key time.
The company said it would reinforce the company’s multimodal solutions, generating bettertransit times for the sea and land movement of goods from Europe and North Africa to the Gulf andLevant countries.
“Aramex started operation in Lebanon since 1988 and employs more than 200 specialised staffmembers,” said Asma Abboud, the company’s Lebanon manager.
“The centre offers customers a variety of innovative logistics, warehousing andtransportation solutions and represents another key investment in the country and will lead to therecruitment of new logistics professionals.”
Dubai-based Aramex now operates logistics facilities in Jebel Ali Free Zone in the UAE, SahabDuty Free in Jordan, and others in Riyadh, Jeddah, Bahrain, Egypt, Morocco, India and Iran.
The opening of the Beirut Free Zone facility is part of the investment strategy for thecompany’s logistics infrastructure in the region, it said in a statement yesterday.
“This includes the upgrade of existing facilities and the establishment of new centre such asthe one at the Dubai Logistics City which will cover 240,000sqm,” it added.
