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Luis Junaide Lalgy shares his views on the transport sector in Mozambique and the region, and presents Transportes Lalgy. He also talks about challenges to be faced, as well as his vision for the future.
Luis Junaide Lalgy, Managing Partner at Transportes Lalgy, presents the company. Lalgy has four divisions, namely: bulk cargo, a tanker fleet, general cargo and heavy loads.
Jessy Sitoe, Executive Director of ECS, presents the company. Expresso Carga e Serviços is a Mozambican company specialized in air freight and road freight services which was founded in 2008.
“In between two and five years, I am looking at PSL being the preferred logistics company in Africa and worldwide, so for PSL to be among the big boys…”
Asia Aerospace City (AAC) aims to make Malaysia the hub for Aerospace OEMs in South East Asia and beyond. It leverages on various engagement strategies with the Aerospace OEMs across the globe. MARA initiated this idea more than a year ago. MARA is a strategic government organisation that champions capability building for the nation through its activities in education, entrepreneur development and investments. MARA produces approx.30% of the overall Malaysian human capital. There is an expanding need for a more diversified supply chain, sustainable human capital and business growth opportunity in Asia by the OEMs.
The market contains around 480 aircrafts. It is expected to double to about 1000 in 2020. Saudia Private Aviation has the best knowledge in this field. We built out biggest and largest FBO in Saudi Arabia for private aviation.
The annual growth of the MRO sector in the Middle East is 6.7%. This is the highest growth rate in this sector anywhere in the world. The growth of the aviation sector in Saudi Arabia is slower, this is because of the lack of MRO facilities.
The government has invested about 50 billion in funding for the development of rail infrastructure, since 1990. The Prime minister announced last year that they would spend another 160 billion Ringgits until 2020.
The field of logistics is now industrial. There are two important areas to improve: one being the state of the roads, and the other one being the customs regulations regarding new equipment that is more productive and secure. In my opinion these are the two main things that need to be addressed so that the transport and logistics sector can be more dynamic and for it to represent a larger percentage of the national GDP.
Stéphane Eholie, Chief Executive Officer of SIMAT, gives an overview of the logistics sector in Ivory Coast and mentions the remaining challenges to be faced.
