Modernizing Shipping and Logistics in the Persian Gulf
December 15, 2017 4:59 PM Subscribe
A friend of mine with cultural and familial ties to Saudi Arabia is excited about the new prince's anti-corruption drive, thinking it will make investors more likely to invest in the country. In particular, he has in mind a business which would modernize shipping and logistics in the region by both using American logistics practices when it comes to the physical delivery and also by building a proprietary cloud shipping and logistics platform similar to FreightHub in Europe.
I don't know anything about the logistics aspect, and the only thing I can say about the IT aspect of it right now is that you'd obviously want to start out hosting it someone else's infrastructure such as AWS (and perhaps even stay there). Given that his comparative advantage here is that he has ties to the region, I'm not even sure he should go about building the IT aspect of it first. It might be better to modernize the actual on the ground shipping first and then build an IT platform to manage and track it, or maybe even just partner with someone like FreightHub instead. At any rate it's just a big dream right now, but I definitely agree with him that the people that pull this off in the Gulf states will become very rich. He and I both live in the Austin, TX area. Is there any advice or guidance any mefites here would like to contribute here?
I don't know anything about the logistics aspect, and the only thing I can say about the IT aspect of it right now is that you'd obviously want to start out hosting it someone else's infrastructure such as AWS (and perhaps even stay there). Given that his comparative advantage here is that he has ties to the region, I'm not even sure he should go about building the IT aspect of it first. It might be better to modernize the actual on the ground shipping first and then build an IT platform to manage and track it, or maybe even just partner with someone like FreightHub instead. At any rate it's just a big dream right now, but I definitely agree with him that the people that pull this off in the Gulf states will become very rich. He and I both live in the Austin, TX area. Is there any advice or guidance any mefites here would like to contribute here?
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