Asyad Group has announced plans to setup a logistics park and an e-commerce hub in Tanzania. The development was sealed with a memorandum of understan
Asyad Group has announced plans to setup a logistics park and an e-commerce hub in Tanzania. The development was sealed with a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between the firm and Tanzania Post.
The MoU was signed by Nasser al Sharji, CEO of Oman Post and Asyad Express, and Macrice Daniel Mbodo, postmaster general of Tanzania Post. The development marks the firm’s further expansion plans in the country.
The multimodal logistics business park will be designed to serve as a one-stop-shop solution for all services required to ensure the development of a world-class e-commerce hub. These include a range of products and services, such as warehousing, fulfilment center and cold chain solutions, as well as courier express parcels, container freight solutions and freight forwarding, driven by logistics technology and digital solutions.
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“This MoU signed between Asyad Group and Tanzania Post is a powerful addition to the group’s toolkit, as it helps translate our commercial plans to position Oman as a global logistics hub and a transit gateway to East Africa, the Middle East, the Arabian Gulf and India. We are proud to pursue our efforts to enter the Tanzanian market in a way that further improves the global logistics sector and enables its development in the East Africa region. We plan to utilize this cooperation to continue to launch our world-class logistics services in African markets which will unlock bilateral trade opportunities and allow us to deploy additional commercial and logistics offerings, with a key focus on e-commerce activities in the rapidly growing Tanzanian market,” Sharji said.
On his part, Mbodo said, “Asyad Group is the leading provider of e-commerce supply chain solutions in Oman, and we will work closely together under this partnership to empower our businesses to reach customers in Oman and the world and connect the Tanzanian and Omani markets with top-notch logistics solutions.”