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Nour Suliman
CEO, DHL International, Express Middle East and North Africa
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cross DHL’s global network, Nour Suliman has driven the Middle East region to be one of the highest performing globally. The achievement is a result of the sustainable growth strategy embarked upon in 2014, to grow the capacity of services and the quality of offerings in the MENA region, boosting the Middle East’s connectivity to key trade centres around the world. DHL Middle East and North Africa has so far invested over $120m on infrastructure expanding facilities and service points by 10%, to 261 service locations across the region and growing the MENA workforce by over 20% to 5,000 employees. 22 | Logistics News ME | October 2016
Suliman says: “In less than two years we successfully opened four new multimillion facilities – a new hub in Dubai; a 10,000sqm gateway at the King Fahd International Airport in Dammam; a $55m consolidated country office and gateway in Cairo and a $20m access point at the King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh. We are now gearing up to launch a new access point in Jeddah, marking DHL’s third new facility in Saudi Arabia, this month. “All this is running parallel to cash injections being made to upgrade our air and vehicle fleets, improve our technologies, increase flights, connectivity and reach, and enhance our customs clearance competencies,” he adds.
Year of establishment:
1976
Location of head office:
Kingdom of Bahrain Total employees:
5,000+
Years in the company:
35