Officials of AD Ports Group and Ghassan Aboud at the groundbreaking ceremony.
AD Ports in deal to set up logistics hub
01 March 2022
AD Ports Group, the region’s premier facilitator of logistics, industry, and trade, said it has partnered with UAE-based multi-business conglomerate Ghassan Aboud Group to establish one of the region’s largest multi-category wholesale food trading and logistics hubs in Khalifa Industrial Zone Abu Dhabi (Kizad) in collaboration with Rungis International Market.
Headquartered in Paris, Rungis is one of the largest wholesale fresh food markets in the world with a turnover of more than $10 billion.
Covering a land area of 3.3 sq km in Kizad, the Regional Food Hub – Abu Dhabi will be one of the largest of its kind in the region.
It will feature trading pavilions, logistics services, refrigerated and ambient warehouses, critical government services, waste recycling facilities and various other support amenities and services.
The ‘Regional Food Hub – Abu Dhabi, in collaboration with Rungis’, will bring together wholesale buyers, sellers, logistics players, consolidators, and distributors from across the world. The project will partner with the world’s leading wholesale market players to ensure the services, facilities and systems are world-class and the site is sustainable, hygienic and a zero-waste ecosystem.
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