Aramex Launches Data Centre Logistics Service Covering Transformers to AI Racks

The service, called Aramex Data Centre Logistics, will first operate in the GCC, Southeast Asia, Taiwan and the southern United States. The report named Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, Johor, Texas and Louisiana among the locations covered.

What the Service Covers

Aramex has split the offering into four stages. During construction it will move transformers, switchgear, generators and chillers, including heavy and oversized loads, tracking them from the purchase order and timing deliveries to the build schedule. For computing equipment, it will ship AI racks and network gear from factories in Taiwan, Southeast Asia, Mexico, the US and Europe by charter flight or secure road transport, and handle customs and export compliance.

Inside the facility, the company will unload at the dock, unpack equipment and place it in the data hall. Once a site is running, it will handle spare parts, replacements and returns. Each AI rack will move under a single documented process, with sensors sealed inside the crate recording shock, tilt, temperature and humidity from the factory to a signed handover, the report said.

The Problem It Targets

Aramex framed the launch around bottlenecks in data centre supply chains. According to the report, transformers and chillers can take a year or more to get from order to site, and a single crated AI rack weighs about 1.75 metric tons, is worth several million dollars, is subject to export controls and can be damaged in transit without visible signs. Deliveries are often divided among separate freight forwarders, customs brokers, heavy-haul firms and installers, leaving no one responsible for the whole journey.

"A data centre is only as fast as its slowest delivery," Amadou Diallo, Group Chief Executive Officer of Aramex, said, according to the report.

The company said the service draws on more than four decades of experience in freight forwarding, customs clearance and project logistics. In the GCC it runs a network of more than 7,000 people with its own stations, warehouses, trucks and customs teams in every market, and it has teams in Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, the US and Europe that work directly with equipment makers. Target customers include data centre developers and operators, construction contractors, and manufacturers of power, cooling and computing equipment.

Why It Matters

The launch puts a regional logistics company into the supply chain behind the Gulf's AI infrastructure build-out, where large campuses are being planned in the UAE and Saudi Arabia. Power and cooling equipment lead times have become a constraint on how quickly new capacity can come online, and moving export-controlled AI hardware adds compliance work on top of the physical handling. Aramex did not disclose pricing, named customers or expected revenue from the new unit, and the report did not include any independent confirmation of contracts.