Partnerships Worth $80 Million Aim to Strengthen Supply Chains in Saudi Arabia

The MoUs will focus on building capabilities and fostering growth across various sectors. (Asharq Al-Awsat)
The MoUs will focus on building capabilities and fostering growth across various sectors. (Asharq Al-Awsat)
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Partnerships Worth $80 Million Aim to Strengthen Supply Chains in Saudi Arabia

The MoUs will focus on building capabilities and fostering growth across various sectors. (Asharq Al-Awsat)
The MoUs will focus on building capabilities and fostering growth across various sectors. (Asharq Al-Awsat)

ASMO Logistics, a joint venture of DHL and Saudi Aramco, has signed 16 memoranda of understanding (MoUs) with various companies to strengthen cooperation in energy, chemicals, refining, manufacturing, healthcare, aviation, and supply chains across the Middle East and North Africa.

The partnerships, worth over 300 million riyals (about $80 million), aim to digitize and develop the supply chain and procurement sectors in Saudi Arabia, collaborating with firms like Aramco Digital, Oracle, and SAP.

Salem Al-Huraish, Chairman of ASMO, highlighted that these partnerships will boost economic growth by creating a more flexible and efficient supply chain.

He noted that ASMO helps clients focus on their core business while benefiting from superior services, reducing carbon emissions, and improving operational efficiency.

ASMO plans to use innovative solutions to enhance supply chain services, financial operations, and human resource management through these partnerships.

The company will also establish procurement monitoring towers and create an online marketplace to aid businesses in making better decisions and improving productivity.

The MoUs will focus on building capabilities and fostering growth across various sectors. In chemicals and refining, ASMO has partnered with companies like Luberef and Petro Rabigh.

In energy, partners include Baker Hughes and Halliburton. For manufacturing, ASMO collaborates with ArcelorMittal and others.

Additionally, the company has signed MoUs with Aloula Aviation and the Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare Center in the aviation and healthcare sectors.



Syria to Receive Electricity-generating Ships from Qatar, Türkiye

FILE PHOTO: A view shows electricity pylons in Kiswah, Damascus suburbs, Syria September 8, 2021. REUTERS/Yamam al Shaar/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: A view shows electricity pylons in Kiswah, Damascus suburbs, Syria September 8, 2021. REUTERS/Yamam al Shaar/File Photo
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Syria to Receive Electricity-generating Ships from Qatar, Türkiye

FILE PHOTO: A view shows electricity pylons in Kiswah, Damascus suburbs, Syria September 8, 2021. REUTERS/Yamam al Shaar/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: A view shows electricity pylons in Kiswah, Damascus suburbs, Syria September 8, 2021. REUTERS/Yamam al Shaar/File Photo

Syria will receive two electricity-generating ships from Türkiye and Qatar to boost energy supplies hit by damage to infrastructure during President Bashar al-Assad's rule, state news agency SANA quoted an official as saying on Tuesday.
Khaled Abu Dai, director general of the General Establishment for Electricity Transmission and Distribution, told SANA the ships would provide a total of 800 megawatts of electricity but did not say over what period.
"The extent of damage to the generation and transformation stations and electrical connection lines during the period of the former regime is very large, we are seeking to rehabilitate (them) in order to transmit energy,” Abu Dai said.
According to Reuters, he did not say when Syria would receive the two ships.
The United States on Monday issued a sanctions exemption for transactions with governing institutions in Syria for six months after the end of Assad's rule to try to increase the flow of humanitarian assistance.
The exemption allows some energy transactions and personal remittances to Syria until July 7. The action did not remove any sanctions.
Syria suffers from severe power shortages, with state-supplied electricity available just two or three hours a day in most areas. The caretaker government says it aims within two months to provide electricity up to eight hours a day.