Kuwait | A consortium of Kuwaiti logistics firm Agility and affiliate Metals and Recycling Company (MRC) have been awarded the management contract by the Defense Logistics Agency of the Department of industrial waste of the American army in Kuwait, Iraq and Afghanistan. The contract is valued at US$97 million for five years. This contract gives Agility access to management process, in addition to several services distributed among members of the coalition, including transport services and janitorial and marketing Industrial waste and other services.
The company says it is not possible to determine the share of the Agility and MRC in this contract at the present time as it depends on what services are provided by members of the coalition. In 1987, MRC was established under the name Kuwait Metal Collecting and Shredding Company. Since inception, MRC has been active in scrap items, machinery and waste sorting, shredding, dismantling, repairing and reselling. This, in addition to waste recycling, auction and demolition management, industrial and handicraft areas construction as well as environment protection and development services in and outside Kuwait.
MRC occupies a huge industrial area of over 2 million square metres in East Amghara and Mina Abdullah (Industrial area) Sea Port in Kuwait and has a significant fleet of vehicles and machinery for the handling, transportation and collection of metals, plastics, batteries, oil, paper and other materials.
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