Aramex Launches Logistics Service for AI Data Centre Builds in GCC, Asia and US

Aramex Data Center Logistics went live on 1 November 2026, according to the company's press release. It starts in the GCC, Southeast Asia, Taiwan and the US South. Gulf Business, Zawya and other regional outlets reported the launch on 3 and 4 November.

Aramex says the problem it is targeting is fragmentation. Equipment for AI data centres can take a year or more to arrive and has to be timed to construction schedules. The company says such shipments are usually split among several freight forwarders, customs brokers, heavy-haul firms and installers, so no single party owns the whole journey. Aramex is pitching itself as that single accountable provider.

What the Service Covers

The service has four parts. The construction part covers heavy and oversized equipment such as transformers, switchgear, generators and chillers, tracked from purchase order and delivered in line with the build schedule. The compute part covers AI racks and network equipment shipped from factories in Taiwan, Southeast Asia, Mexico, the US and Europe, by charter flight or secure road, with customs and export-control compliance.

Inside the data centre, Aramex will handle unloading at the dock, unpacking and placement in the data hall. The fourth part covers spare parts, replacements and returns once a facility is running.

Aramex says each AI rack moves under one documented process. Sensors sealed inside the crate record shock, tilt, temperature and humidity until a signed handover at the site. According to the company, a single crated AI rack weighs about 1.75 metric tons and is worth several million dollars.

The target customers are data centre developers and operators, construction contractors, and makers of power, cooling and computing equipment.

"A data center is only as fast as its slowest delivery," Amadou Diallo, Group Chief Executive Officer of Aramex, said in the statement. "The companies building AI capacity work to dates that cannot move," he added, describing equipment that is made on one continent and installed on another.

Why It Matters

Power and grid connections have been the most visible bottlenecks in the AI infrastructure build-out, but delivery of physical equipment is another constraint. Transformers and switchgear have long lead times, and the high-value server racks at the centre of AI clusters are fragile and subject to export controls. A failed or late delivery can leave expensive capacity sitting idle.

The launch is a bid by a regional logistics group to win a share of that spending. The GCC is in the middle of a large data centre expansion, with projects tied to the UAE's and Saudi Arabia's AI strategies. The inclusion of the US South and Taiwan, the source of much AI server hardware, shows that Aramex is aiming beyond its home market.

Aramex says it has more than 7,000 staff in the GCC and runs the region's largest logistics network. Group-wide, it operates in more than 600 cities across 70 countries and employs more than 16,000 people. The company was founded in 1982 and has been listed on the Dubai Financial Market since 2005. It did not give revenue targets for the new service.