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The Kanoo Group (Arabic: مجموعة كانو) is a large family-owned by conglomerate based in the UAE and Oman. It is a part of the parent company Yusuf Bin Ahmed Kanoo Group (established in 1890), founded in Bahrain by Haji Yusuf Bin Ahmed Kanoo which started from a trading and shipping enterprise. From Bahrain, the business spread to Saudi Arabia in the 1930s and to the UAE in the 1960s.

Business overview
The family business first made its name in the shipping industry, challenging the long-established British firms that had come to dominate the Arabian Peninsula. Kanoo Shipping is the first Arab shipping agency in the region in 1911 and one of the founders of S5 Agency World Ltd. At present, Kanoo Shipping is the largest regional shipping agency in the Middle East which operates in 20 countries and all principal ports and offshore tanker loading terminals around the Arabian Peninsula, including Iraq.

Kanoo Shipping handles 20,000 port calls every year through its professional network, which covers all ports in the Suez to Sri Lanka range and East/South Africa and recently has launched operations in India. The new agency office in Mumbai, Kanoo Shipping India, will allow Kanoo Shipping to have complete port coverage in India. In addition to its fully owned offices and joint ventures, the company's regional network operates through established partners in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Seychelles, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique and Mauritius.

Similarly, the family's involvement in the travel industry dated back to 1937 when Kanoo Travel began providing refuelling facilities for Imperial Airways, the first British commercial long-haul airline, for flights en route to India and Australia. In 1947, Kanoo Travel became the first IATA agency in the Middle East and the first travel company in the Middle East to receive the ISO certification in 1997.

In the mid-1960s, Kanoo Machinery used to supply construction and material handling equipment in the region. At that time, the UAE was just setting up its oil and gas industry and developing its infrastructure.

Today, the family-run business has diversified business industries from shipping, travel, machinery; to logistics, property, oil & gas, power industrial chemicals, training, joint ventures, retail and commercial activities, and operates extensively throughout Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Oman, Yemen and Qatar.

Kanoo Shipping


Kanoo Shipping is a division of The Kanoo Group—one of the largest and independent, family-owned groups of companies in the Gulf Region.

From being the first shipping agency in the Arabian Gulf region, it has grown into the most prominent regional shipping agency in the Middle East, handling over 20,000 ship calls every year through the company’s professional network, which covers all ports in the Suez, Indian sub-continent, and East/South Africa. Kanoo Shipping focuses on building an evident HSSE culture throughout our organization, including our staff, crew members, and other personnel under our care.

As the region’s premier tanker agent and offshore service provider, Kanoo Shipping represents many of the world’s leading shipping owners, operators, and charterers. It offers regional, trans-regional or global coordinated financial and port-call management services tailored to individual corporate needs.

Technology remains at the forefront of investments and strategic planning. Kanoo Shipping’s industry-leading IT platform for vessel operations and finance enables standardized services worldwide while ensuring the highest quality service and operational efficiency.

Kanoo Shipping operates in 20 countries and all principal ports and offshore tanker loading terminals around the Arabian Peninsula, including Iraq. In addition to its wholly-owned offices and joint ventures across the Arabian Gulf, Kanoo Shipping has established its own offices in India and Southern Africa, operating a regional network through well-established partnerships in North & West Africa, the Levant region, Yemen, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.

Kanoo Shipping guarantees to:

 * Provide a worldwide client reach with independent marketing offices in China, Korea, Japan, Singapore, Greece, Switzerland, and USA
 * Offer market leaders in the regional marine offshore servicing/support
 * Offer local and regional ship agency services
 * Provide turnkey solutions (arranged through Kanoo Logistics) covering warehousing, container handling and road freight – any required combination of sea and land cargo elements.
 * Offer a 24-hour help desk to increase service availability
 * Offer strong relationships with ship owners and commodity traders
 * Assist through its industry leading IT platform
 * Offer military & naval support services, logistics and procurement


 * Kanoo Yacht Services - Kanoo Yacht Services provides servicing of specialist requirements of Super Yachts throughout the UAE, as well as Oman, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Bahrain. It also offers a concierge service. Kanoo Yacht Services is the preferred and appointed Agent on yacht handling for the annual Abu Dhabi Formula One Grand Prix.

Kanoo Shipping Services

Kanoo Shipping combines local expertise with international standards to deliver the highest levels of proactive service and measured processes to meet our customer requirements. Our business systems exceed ISO requirements to improve the quality and range of services continuously.

Kanoo Travel
Kanoo Travel is the first International Air Transport Association (IATA) member agency in the GCC. It has since become the largest travel company in the Middle East, offering the industry's most comprehensive and sophisticated solutions.

Today, this division of The Kanoo Group boasts a team of over 1,445 travel specialists across the region, operating a network of 146 IATA locations. It has established world-class partnerships in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the UAE, Qatar, Oman, Egypt, Lebanon, the United Kingdom, and France.

In 1997, it became the first travel company to receive an International Standards Organization (ISO) certification in the Middle East region.

Kanoo Travel specializes in corporate travel, Meetings, Incentives, Conferences, and Events (MICE); leisure and holiday travel; airline representation; and marine travel. It has been consistently recognized for its premium solutions and service excellence, winning many regional industry awards.

Awards & recognition
Our highly skilled employees' unwavering commitment to service excellence is reflected by the numerous prestigious awards we have proudly received. These awards are a testament to what can be accomplished through teamwork, dedication, and a strong customer satisfaction philosophy.

The first travel management company to achieve:


 * 1) 1947 – 2000
 * 2) 1947: IATA accreditation
 * 3) 1997: ISO 9002 certification (first travel company in the Middle East)
 * 4) 2000: ISO 9001: 2000 certification

The first travel management company to win:


 * 1) 2000: Dubai Quality Appreciation Award
 * 2) 2001: Dubai Quality Award
 * 3) 2004: Sheikh Khalifa Excellence Award (Appreciation Certificate)
 * 4) 2006: Sheikh Khalifa Excellence Award

Other awards: - 2007 – 2018


 * 1) 2007 : Middle East’s Leading Business Travel 2007: Agency: World Travel Awards
 * 2) 2008: ‘Best Tour Operator’ for Middle East and Southeast Asia region: India Tourism Board
 * 3) 2008: ‘Best Tour Operator’ for Middle East region: Sri Lanka Tourism Board
 * 4) 2009: Sheikh Khalifa Excellence Award (Silver – Travel & Tourism Sector)
 * 5) 2012: Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Business Award (Gold – Service Category)
 * 6) 2015: The Travel Agent and Tour Operator of the Year: The Aviation Business Awards
 * 7) 2018: Best Travel Management Company – The Arabian Travel Awards 2018
 * 8) 2018: Best MICE Company – The Arabian Travel Awards 2018
 * 9) 2018: Best Travel Management Company – The Travel Tech Middle East

Kanoo Machinery
www.kanoomachinery.com/uae

Kanoo Machinery is one of the leading solutions providers in supplying, servicing, and renting various equipment across the Gulf. For over 50 years, Kanoo Machinery has been catering to diverse industrial sectors through its wide range of consumables from leading manufacturers of materials handling industrial and maintenance solutions.

Kanoo Machinery's products are renowned for their excellent quality, reliability, and uptime—catering to various industrial sectors, including construction, oil and gas, government and military, petrochemicals, manufacturing, and agriculture.

The division's comprehensive equipment range covers general construction, mobile cranes, material handling, compressors, aerial work platforms, maintenance and agriculture, welding, diesel and gas engines, and other Industrial equipment and services ranging from sustainable solutions to intelligent engineering and value-added services.

Kanoo Machinery is also a leading vendor to significant industries in the UAE and the wider GCC region, such as:


 * Utility
 * Municipalities
 * Oil and Gas refineries
 * Petrochemical
 * Ports
 * Manufacturing
 * Fabrication
 * Retail
 * Food
 * Pharmaceutical Industries
 * Facility management companies

The division continuously provides dedicated services through its qualified, skilled, and experienced human resources, attracting a large GCC client base.

It also boasts decades-long partnerships with renowned international equipment brands, representing them in the UAE and other GCC countries. Among those include the Manitowoc Company (Grove), Hyster, Perkins, Bobcat, Lincoln Electric, Combilift, Sullair, Massey Ferguson, Lincoln Electronic, Panasonic, Hyundai Welding, Snorkel, AUSA, BeachTech, Norton and Tennant.

With more than 15 regional branches, Kanoo Machinery has specialists and technicians at state-of-the-art workshops offering aftermarket services to ensure maximum customer uptime. This is backed up by substantial local spare parts, service, and delivery stocks—which are coordinated through significant investment in IT systems.

Kanoo Machinery also prides itself on its 100% Customer Excellence Movement, which assures 24/7 support to all its customers.

8 PARTS COUNTER & FULLY EQUIPPED SERVICE FACILITIES COVERING ALL UAE

Kanoo Machinery supports all customers through its eight different parts counters in the UAE, such as Al-Quoz, Ras-Al-Khor in Dubai, Sharjah, Ras-Al-Khaimah, Fujairah in the Northern Emirates, Musaffah Industrial Area, Musaffah City in Abu Dhabi, and Al-Ain.

The division also offers significant repair services, refurbishment, and painting for equipment. Its qualified, skilled, and certified service personnel ensure that the equipment is serviced and maintained as per the manufacturer's recommendation in the shortest time.

Kanoo Machinery also has several mobile service vehicles to attend to the machines on-site anywhere in UAE, ensuring that all customers are provided with prompt and quality service to keep the equipment uptime close to 100%.

KANRENT
Kanoo Equipment Rental (KANRENT) offers rentable equipment.

Kanoo Energy
Part of Kanoo Industrial & Energy, Kanoo Energy has been in operation for more than two decades, providing end-to-end solutions for diverse industrial applications. It provides sustainable solutions to the Oil and Gas, Petrochemicals, Utility, Aviation, Heavy Engineering, Manufacturing, and other major market sectors through smart engineering and value-added services. It is recognized across the region for bringing customized value-added solutions through a well-developed network of reputed manufacturers worldwide and extensive relationships with international associates, supported locally by highly qualified multinational engineering staff.

Kanoo Energy’s skilled and experienced staff provide engineered solutions that adhere to local legislation and fully comply with international engineering standards and best practices.

Kanoo Logistics
Established over fifty years ago, Kanoo Logistics offers global freight forwarding and end-to-end multimodal supply chain solutions to diverse industries, including manufacturing, petrochemical, automobile, chemical and FMCG sectors.

This division of The Kanoo Group has forged a strong reputation as a reliable and trusted logistics enterprise capable of efficiently moving freight across the globe.

Kanoo Logistics is present across the GCC and has facilities in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the UAE (Dubai, Jebel Ali and Abu Dhabi), Oman, and Qatar.

Through its decades-long experience, significant track record of success, and a loyal network of partners, Kanoo Logistics has positioned itself as highly capable of freight forwarding and end-to-end multimodal supply chain solutions. Its experienced and trained staff is also equipped to handle the full complexities of the supply chain business within the region and beyond.


 * Multimodal Freight Forwarding – Regional and International through a network of solid partners, including air, sea, land and cross-border in the GCC
 * Chemical Logistics, including Tank Container Logistics
 * Warehousing and Distribution
 * Bonded Zone facilities in the Ports of Saudi Arabia
 * Customs Brokerage, Domestic & International
 * 3PL Services
 * Project Cargo Management
 * Road Transportation
 * Specialized air cargo services in collaboration with leading international freight forwarders and airlines

Kanoo Cranes
Kanoo Cranes LLC, one of the divisions of The Kanoo Group, focuses on providing engineered crane solutions to the construction, oil and gas and industrial markets. With over 50 years of history and experience and over ten years of working, operating, and packaging Tower Cranes across the GCC, the division provides complete lifting solutions with Mobile Crane packages. This makes Kanoo Cranes the top choice in the Middle East.

Kanoo Cranes offers engineered solutions for any lifting requirements through the help of experts in Mobile Cranes, Crawler Cranes, Tower Cranes and Passenger Hoists.

Our team can support your needs by:


 * Providing recommendations and advisory services for crane implementation and use of any associated accessories
 * Giving full operational support concerning erection, dismantling, and climbing
 * Supplying spare parts and maintenance contracts for any mobile crane or tower crane, along with their accessories
 * Advising on anti-collision systems, test weights, as well as third-party inspections
 * Providing training for a wide variety of aspects within the crane industry
 * Providing services across a variety of markets with a diverse range of brands and cost-effective crane solutions through a team of experts specializing in the field of lifting

The Kanoo Group has completed hundreds of different crane installations in its history and has established itself as the crane professional of this region. It can take on an enormous scope of work and provide specific engineered solutions. We continue to retain an excellent reputation and have established alliance agreements with:


 * 1) JASO
 * 2) SMIE-Anti-collision
 * 3) MEADA
 * 4) SPIERINGS
 * 5) ALBA

Kanoo Cranes offers its service across the Middle East, with current operations focused on the UAE and Oman, and plans to expand in Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

H.A.K. Industrial Chemicals
H.A.K. Industrial Chemicals (LLC), a member of The Kanoo Group, is a leading supplier of specialty chemicals, equipment, and other raw materials for specific industries in the UAE, GCC, and beyond.

The company prides itself on excellent service, providing full assistance regarding all chemical needs.

H.A.K. Industrial Chemicals supplies specialty chemicals, equipment & raw materials to the following industries:


 * Paints and Coating, Printing Inks and Construction Chemicals
 * Rubber and Plastic products
 * Personal Care and Pharmaceutical
 * Adhesives, Cleaning & Water Treatment Chemicals

Specific details on the companies and the product range that we work with are highlighted on our website:

BRC Arabia
BRC Arabia (LLC) was established in December 1996 and used to operate in the Sharjah Airport Free Zone. In June 2010, it set up its new state-of-the-art facilities in Dubai Industrial City, where it started its entire operations in November 2011 and opened its branch office in Abu Dhabi. As a premier leader in reinforcing steel production, BRC Arabia (LLC) has earned a reputable standing in the construction market.

BRC Arabia aims to provide high-quality environmental construction products to all its clients.


 * Cut and Bent Steel Rebars
 * BRC Welded Wire Mesh
 * Cold Rolled Steel Wires
 * Rebars Threading with Mechanical Splicing (Couplers)

All the products are produced to International Standards and Specifications under stringent quality control.

BRC Arabia (LLC) was certified by International Standards Organization (ISO) 9001: 2000 under QMI Certificate No. 011860 in August 2001, ISO 9001: 2008 in November 2011, and upgraded to ISO 9001: 2015 under Certificate of Registration No. AE-10001-QMS on 7th March 2020. BRC Arabia has been contributing to developing reinforcing steel fabrication in the UAE for years. It has been supplying products to major projects such as Infrastructure, Power Plants, RTA Dubai Metro, Industrial and Oil Complexes, Commercial and Residential Towers, and Housing Projects.

Kanoo Real Estate
Kanoo Real Estate handles all the group's commercial real estate requirements commercially. The division has evolved from running the development and management of the group's property assets to offering fully-fledged real estate solutions, including project development, project management, asset management and facilities management.

With an expansive portfolio of mixed-use, industrial, residential, office and retail real estate, Kanoo Real Estate is in major cities throughout Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. Its projects range from office spaces to retail centers logistics facilities, to residential accommodation in high-profile locations.

In recent years, it has successfully constructed logistics and terminal services facilities at the King Abdulaziz Port in Dammam, KSA, as well as warehouse facilities and distribution services. Other significant projects include a 100-metre office tower in Manama's Diplomatic Area, Bahrain and an award-winning residential compound in Dubai, UAE.

The real estate division offers its capabilities to third parties free-market. It provides a full range of real estate services from project development, leased land, new build, or facilities management of an existing commercial or residential property.

UAE Projects One of Kanoo Real Estate's projects in the UAE is the first of many villa compound developments in Jumeirah 3 – the Al Safeena Villas. The new villa community comprises 11 contemporary residential properties in the heart of one of Dubai's most sought-after neighborhoods.

In addition, the division has also developed Haya and Alyazzi Villas in Jumeirah, which consist of five and eight stand-alone villas, respectively.

Furthermore, Kanoo Real Estate has also been working on new development projects for the group, such as the Solar Project for its Al Quoz premises and redevelopment plans for its Abu Dhabi Headquarters.

The core focus of the division includes asset management, investment, development, facilities management, and leasing of real estate within our growing portfolio.

Our expertise:
 * Asset Management
 * Development
 * Investment
 * Property Management
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