The notion of halal logistics has been around for over a decade and as the halal food market has matured, the awareness of halal logistics has grown with it.
Some early initiatives, such as a halal-only facility at the Port of Rotterdam in 2007 and the Halal Express by Malaysia’s MISC shipping line, certainly appear to have jumped the gun. But the need for end-to-end compliance to ensure halal integrity throughout the supply chain is an increasingly important issue and logistics plays a central role in this respect.
Assuming that logistics accounts for 15 percent of the final value of goods (2012 share of Muslim F&B logistics, assumed unchanged, as referenced in the State of the Global Islamic Economy 2014-15 report by Thomson Reuters in collaboration with DinarStandard, the logistics in the halal food sector were valued at $151 billion in 2014 (State of the Global Islamic Economy 2015-2016 report).
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Abdalhamid Evans, DinarStandard Associate Partner