Kuehne+Nagel has significantly expanded its connection of offices in Africa . These business office are carry off and supported by a control tugboat in Durban , South Africa – a single item of customer contact responsible for for a compliant , high character and comfortable - to - access code meshing across Africa . It allows for complete visibility across the net , include remote locations , while ensuring Kuehne+Nagel ’s global inspection and repair standards ; supervising data quality , enable load visibility and make do cargo menstruum .
With this enlargement , Kuehne+Nagel provides its customers advantageously access to African markets and while offering African manufacturers speciate and industry - specific result to meet hang glide need in markets such as pharma & healthcare , perishables , emergency brake & relief and project logistics .
Sub - Saharan Africa plays an increasingly significant role in worldwide deal as it is dwelling to more than one billion masses , half of whom will be under the age of 25 by 2050 . Kuehne+Nagel has been actively present in Africa for almost seven decades after opening its first office in Johannesburg in 1954 . The company allow for its customer with full visibleness across a strong and compliant supply chain by flux the strengths of a local bearing with Kuehne+Nagel ’s global operating systems and processes .
The expanded Africa mesh is in full vetted and audited by an external ball-shaped auditing company to ensure ongoing bond to the high level of compliance and ethical standards . It provides the full range of international services including Air , Sea , Road and Contract logistics to address the demands of the African continent .
“ Africa is consecrate with natural resources and a young entrepreneurial population . Now is the time to unlock this electric potential and create growing , thriving economies . There are many elements to this , one being the logistic ability to connect spheric grocery for last consumer and provider . With the raw control column in Durban , we are ready to speak this great African opportunity , ” says Lee I’Ons , President of Kuehne+Nagel Middle East and Africa .
With this expansion , Kuehne+Nagel will be map in 18 African state : South Africa , Kenya , Uganda , Tanzania , Egypt , Angola , Namibia , Madagascar , Zimbabwe , Swaziland , Mozambique , Mauritius , Botswana , Nigeria , Ghana , Ivory Coast , Senegal and Rwanda . Until the end of the first fourth 2022 , Kuehne+Nagel plans to increase its footprint with a 2nd expansion on the continent .
