Tag Archives: logistics

Al-Hawai Tyre Co. , the sole distributor of Pirelli for the northern emirates, is to create a logistics hub at Al Saja’a Industrial Oasis, an industrial park 30 minutes outside Sharjah city centre. Established more than 30 years ago, Al-Hawai will build a distribution centre for Sharjah and Northern Emirates, a maintenance workshop and a new retail outlet. There are ...

Sharjah Business Summit 2017, organised by Gulftainer, the world’s largest privately owned independent port operator, will put the spotlight on innovation in the transport and logistics sector and Sharjah’s state-of-the-art infrastructure. Co-hosted by its logistics subsidiary, Momentum Logistics, the event is supported by Sharjah Investment and Development Authority (Shurooq), Sharjah Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI), Sharjah Municipality, Sharjah Ports ...

Sharjah is installing more than 102,000 signboards across the emirate as part of a new Postal Code system. Officially launched by Sharjah Urban Planning Council (SUPC) in 2015, Sharjah’s new post code initiative provides emirate-wide local post codes, linked to a geographical information system (GIS), with accompanying street signage. The new system opens up new opportunities for ecommerce, door-to-door retail, logistics ...

ATS, a UAE-based logistics company catering to the global shipping, logistics and marine industries, has doubled the capacity of its liquid storage terminal at Sharjah’s Hamriyah Free Zone as part of an estimated AED 100 million (US$ 27m) investment in the facility. The state-of-art liquid storage terminal has increased capacity from its initial 22,000 cubic meters to 42,000 cubic meters ...

Phase one of Sharjah’s new post code system has been officially launched by Sharjah Urban Planning Council (SUPC) in the first step to provide emirate-wide local post codes, opening up new opportunities for ecommerce, retail and logistics providers. The new local post code system, developed by the Emirates Post Group, provides a key component for the door-to-door delivery of a ...

Global port terminal operator Gulftainer, recorded an 8 percent growth in container volume in 2014, handling a total of 6.4 million twenty-foot-equivalent units (TEUs) across its global operations portfolio. Gulftainer is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sharjah-based Crescent Enterprises and operates Sharjah Container Terminal (SCT) located at Port Khaled in the heart of the city of Sharjah, Khorfakkan Container Terminal (KCT) ...

Sharjah-headquartered terminal operator Gulftainer has reported that the Sharjah Container Terminal (SCT) handled 400,000 TEUs (20-foot equivalent units) during 2014, recording double-digit growth compared to previous year’s volumes. SCT is managed and operated by Gulftainer on behalf of the Sharjah Port Authority. The terminal operator credited the arrival of new services throughout the year with boosting throughput, including UASC’s Gulf India ...

Khorfakkan Container Terminal (KCT) has welcomed the ship CSCL Mercury, the first vessel on the new China Shipping Container Lines / United Arab Shipping enhanced AEX7 joint service, which links leading ports across Asia and Northern Europe via Sharjah’s Khorfakkan Port. China Shipping Container Lines Co. Ltd (CSCL) is China’s second largest container shipping liner and the seventh largest global ...