Agility wins Equate tender for land transportation and distribution

Dakheel Al Dakheel, Director of Sales - Kuwait for Agility, explained: "We have been working with Equate on a past contract for the past five years. To win the second contract, we had to compete with strong international companies and maintain rigorous safety regulations. We are very pleased to be joining hands with Equate again and we aim to working closely with them for all their transportation and distribution needs."

Al Dakheel added: "This comes in line with our strategy to provide a comprehensive range of integrated logistics services to the oil and gas sector. The services provided by Agility to the Kuwaiti oil sector are on par with some of the leading global oil and gas industries worldwide."

Following the agreement, Agility is now responsible for providing land transportation services to 50 percent of EQUATE's land distribution operations in the region.

Hamad Malallah, Senior Transportation Manager for Agility in Kuwait, highlighted: "We currently have a dedicated fleet of trucks and drivers serving the Equate project. All our operations adhere to the highest safety and security standards, provide international technical services and are managed by Agility's central operation division with full visibility to Equate's team. Based on Equate's increasing requirements going forward, we will enlarge this fleet in the coming future."

Agility has a well established commercial transportation network in the GCC and Levant countries. In the Middle East, Agility operates a fleet of over 6,000 vehicles providing transportation services that ranges from local delivery to regional overland trucking.

Al Dakheel concluded: "We are currently working with a number of prestigious local and international companies from the oil and gas sector and will continue to drive our efforts to develop a growing presence in this important sector."