Amadou Diallo honored at Africa investor CEO Investment
Climate Summit 2011 in association with the World Bank
Group
SINGAPORE, Sept. 26, 2011
/PRNewswire-Asia/ -- DHL’s innovative investment and operational
strategy across Africa has won it international recognition at the
prestigious Africa investor CEO Investment Climate Summit 2011,
organized by Africa investor in association with the World Bank
Group. Amadou Diallo, CEO, Africa and South Asia Pacific, DHL
Global Forwarding, was named Africa's Innovation Leader of the Year
in the Ai Investment Awards 2011 at a presentation made during the
World Bank’s annual meeting in Washington DC on 23 September.
DHL, the world’s leading logistics
company, was the first international logistics company to start
operations in and out of Africa over 30 years ago and is today the
undisputed market leader with the largest group of logistics
experts dedicated to Africa. For 2011, Africa is one of DHL’s key
investment areas and it is focussing on upgrading and integrating
IT, expanding trade lanes and connections, and launching
innovations such as Oil and Energy Centers of Excellence to create
a dynamic transfer of emerging market knowledge that cuts the
learning cycle, deepens expertise and brings solutions – and
African products – to market faster.
Mr. Diallo said: “Africa is one of
DHL’s fastest growing regions in the network markets. We have the
finest team in Africa and this year we have focussed on investing
and growing our human resources and infrastructure to ensure
African businesses have access to the logistics excellence they
need. Realizing Africa’s economic dreams is critical to realizing
our own as ‘the logistics company for the world’ and
we are honored that our innovative work in Africa has been
internationally recognized.”
Recently, DHL was voted Africa’s
International Freight Forwarder of the year for the third time
(Note 1),reflecting its unique leadership position in Africa. DHL
Express, DHL Global Forwarding and DHL Supply Chain have over 6,000
employees in the 53 countries that make-up Sub-Saharan and North
Africa. DHL Global Forwarding alone operates 1 million sq ft
of warehouse space in Sub-Saharan Africa over 16 sites for 30
customer operations in addition to 71 facilities, 97 offices, 1,250
vehicles, 17 aircraft, 25 airside facilities, five distribution
hubs and 825 owned and sub-contracted vehicles. As a result, DHL’s
coverage, capacity, resource and expertise in Africa are
unsurpassed.
In 2010, DHL made Sub-Saharan Africa
and South Asia Pacific into one operating region under the
leadership of Mr. Diallo, who is from Senegal. The restructure is
part of a strategy that leverages the combined strengths of growth
triangles.
The Africa investor CEO Investment
Climate Summit, in association with the World Bank Group, is a
business forum designed to raise Africa’s profile and attract more
investment by showcasing genuine examples of outstanding investment
leadership and success. It also aims to facilitate action,
highlight and address project-specific investment climate
challenges by bringing together private investors with significant
investment projects and the African Union, NEPAD, RECs and African
policy makers to enhance Africa’s competitiveness as a global
investment destination.
Note 1: 2011 STAT Times Awards last night in Nairobi, Kenya. The
International Award for Excellence in Air Cargo was voted by STAT
Times’readers worldwide.
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DHL – The Logistics company for
the world
DHL is the global market leader in
the logistics industry and “The Logistics company for
the world”. DHL commits its expertise in international express, air
and ocean freight, road and rail transportation, contract logistics
and international mail services to its customers. A global network
composed of more than 220 countries and territories and about
275,000 employees worldwide offers customers superior service
quality and local knowledge to satisfy their supply chain
requirements. DHL accepts its social responsibility by supporting
climate protection, disaster management and education.
DHL is part of Deutsche Post DHL.
The Group generated revenue of more than 51 billion Euros in
2010.
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