Aramex is a global transportation and logistics

Logistics

Logistics is the management of the flow of goods between the point of origin and the point of destination in order to meet the requirements of customers or corporations. Logistics involves the integration of information, transportation, inventory, warehousing, material handling, and packaging, and...

 services company providing a variety of express

Express mail

In most postal systems express mail refers to an accelerated delivery service for which the customer pays a surcharge and receives faster delivery. Express mail is a service for domestic mail and is governed by a country's own postal administration...

, logistics, freight forwarding and domestic distribution services. The company was established in 1982 and is headquartered in Amman

Amman

Amman is the capital of Jordan. It is the country's political, cultural and commercial centre and one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. The Greater Amman area has a population of 2,842,629 as of 2010. The population of Amman is expected to jump from 2.8 million to almost...

, Jordan

Jordan

Jordan , officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan , Al-Mamlaka al-Urduniyya al-Hashemiyya) is a kingdom on the East Bank of the River Jordan. The country borders Saudi Arabia to the east and south-east, Iraq to the north-east, Syria to the north and the West Bank and Israel to the west, sharing...

. Aramex also provides a number of retail services including mail-order catalog services and mail forwarding

Mail forwarding

Post offices and other mail service providers typically offer a mail forwarding service, commonly known as hybrid mail or virtual post office box services, to redirect mail destined for one location to another – usually for a given period of time. In the case of the United States Postal Service's...

 services.
Aramex was founded by Fadi Ghandour

Fadi Ghandour

Fadi Ali Ghandour is a Jordanian entrepreneur mostly known for being the founder and CEO of Aramex, one of the global logistics and transportation providers. Ghandour co-founded Aramex in 1982 in Amman, Jordan and has served as CEO since then. Aramex was the first company from the Arab world to go...

 in 1982, where its name was acronym of "ARab AMerican EXpress" before its brand name Aramex

Aramex

Aramex is a global transportation and logistics services company providing a variety of express, logistics, freight forwarding and domestic distribution services. The company was established in 1982 and is headquartered in Amman, Jordan...

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