Building On a Legacy of Business Growth and Community Support

Alhutheily Group is establishing promising partnerships with international companies in the oil, transport, automotive, and real estate sectors. Starting in Yemen, the group has since expanded into the United Arab Emirates and Egypt and will soon enter Sudan, while seeking out new opportunities to build on an already impressive portfolio of companies and services.

Alhutheily Group offers a wide range of services including land transport, crude oil transport, fuel products transport, fuel sea freight, oilfield services, automotive, lubricants, general and retail trade, and real estate investments. In addition, the group owns and operates a number of oil and gas stations. The Group’s business portfolio includes Alhutheily Corporation for Transport and Oil Services, ATICO Trading & Industry Co. Ltd, Alhutheily Motors and Heavy Equipment FZE, Alhutheily General Trading LLC, High Trust Transport LLC, High Trust Petroleum L.L.C, and HSS Shipping Company LLC.

Despite the major challenges in Yemen since 2011, Alhutheily Group, in partnership with other international companies, has managed to achieve continuous success by expanding into new commercial areas and entering into dealer agreements with leading global organizations. Unwavering commitment and transparency have also been key to the Group’s enduring success. Now, with a new year underway, Alhutheily Group continues to pursue promising opportunities and aspires to grow its business in neighboring countries.

In fact, Alhutheily Group’s journey of expansion has already begun. With the United Arab Emirates offering an attractive investment climate, the group holds investments in U.A.E. real estate and has developed its commercial and services business lines in the country. For example, it supplies fuel products and offers its maritime transportation to companies in Yemen and the region.

However, success has been hard fought. Faced with upheaval in Yemen and the wider Arab world over the past decade, Alhutheily Group has ramped up its efforts, not just to safeguard its own business, but to support its home country. Post-2011, the Group contributed to alleviating the burdens of economic crisis by harnessing its fleet of commercial vehicles and its facilities to transfer oil derivatives and ensure availability in all Yemeni cities where the business was active. The Group also maintained its obligations towards its employees and workers during the most difficult of times.

Recently, Alhutheily Motors & Heavy Equipment FZE signed a new agreement with Germany’s MAN Truck & Bus SE. Through the partnership, the Group will act as an agent and distributor for MAN vehicles in new territories soon to be announced, in addition to continuing its role as MAN’s exclusive agent in Yemen.

Inside Yemen, Alhutheily Motors has succeeded in making MAN trucks the most trusted trucks among businesses and clients, as well as the best in terms of operational efficiency, and the most suitable for Yemeni market conditions. These achievements mirror the success enjoyed by MAN Truck & Bus SE in the Gulf and Africa in recent years. opened. In addition to selling petrol, the station offered maintenance services and sold spare parts for trucks, as well as engine lubricants and tires – all of which added to the founder’s experience in the field.

In addition to MAN Truck & Bus SE, Alhutheily Group—through its subsidiaries—represents international companies in Yemen, such as Magna Tyres, Kubota, Ravenol, Spanish generator manufacturer HIMOINSA, German axles manufacturer BPW, and other American and European oil services companies. Via its subsidiary, Alhutheily Motors FZE, the Group also represents MAN Energy Solutions in Yemen and the Middle East.

As the Group developed, it excelled in transportation and oilfield services, and succeeded in forming commercial relations based on trust and transparency, which gave Alhutheily’s name credibility in the market. As a result, the Group became a main supplier of oil products to several petrol stations and later won a contract to provide

The Beginning

Hussein Ahmed Alhutheily is the CEO and founder of Alhutheily Group. He was born in Sana’a Governorate in 1965 into a well-known business family and has become a prominent entrepreneur in Yemen.

A father of nine, Hussein Alhutheily worked in his early days in the family’s commercial business, which at the time centered on simple businesses related to kerosene and diesel trade, and later a petrol station. This early period in his entrepreneurial career marked a significant turning point, opening the way for the young businessman to focus on the fuel products trade, which is the core business of the group today.

Hussein Alhutheily’s Spirit of Leadership

When Hussein Alhutheily founded Alhutheily Group, he continued to focus primarily on fuel products, but the Group also entered new markets, including trading in stationery and food supplies. Then, in the nineties, the Group’s first gas station was crude oil transportation services to a company working in oil exploration and production.

Despite Alhutheily Group’s limited exposure to oilfield services and crude oil transport, efficiency in operations and maintaining high standards of safety contributed greatly to the Group’s ability to win contracts with international companies working in the exploration and production of oil in Yemen. These companies included France’s Total, Canadian companies Nexen and Calvalley, and OMV of Austria. Alhutheily also provided transport services to Yemen LNG liquefied gas company.

All of these companies were searching for a service provider with extensive experience and the ability to meet international safety, environmental, and operational requirements. Alhutheily was able to meet each of these requirements and the Group’s transportation business now holds international quality certificates in transport and oil services ISO 45001:2018, ISO 9001:2015, ISO 45001:2018.

As he grew the business, Hussein Alhutheily sought the help of local and foreign experts who contributed to the group’s success. In particular, this support helped Alhutheily Corporation for Transport and Oil Services to become the qualified carrier and preferred choice for many international and national oil exploration and production companies—a status the Group enjoys to this day.

Adherence to International Standards

Alhutheily Group’s business in trading and transporting oil derivatives adheres to international standards in Yemen and the Group obtains permits from the United several humanitarian and community initiatives including supporting and caring for students abroad, providing scholarships, and building and renovating schools. The Group also supports the families of deceased Alhutheily Group employees. for investors and residents are prominent. In an effort to highlight the positive investment climate and opportunities available to entrepreneurs in the U.A.E., the Group provides advice to those who are considering starting commercial and investment businesses in the U.A.E., within an ecosystem of tolerance and coexistence, regardless of background. In addition, the Group is looking forward to boosting its own investments in the U.A.E. over the months to come.

In addition, the Group contributes to the Cancer Control Foundation in Yemen and abroad, assists in the payment of debts of people in need, and provides direct and indirect sponsorship to a number of cultural and literary initiatives. The aim of such initiatives is to enhance and raise societal cultural awareness and promote literary and humanitarian activities, thus strengthening human relations.

Nations office before unloading and distributing any shipment. In terms of the shipments themselves, Alhutheily’s fuel products are all purchased from reliable global suppliers such as Total, Al Ghurair, Trafigura, and Vitol.

Politics and Business

Represented by its namesake CEO, Alhutheily Group has maintained great success while distancing itself from politics in Yemen. Instead, the CEO sees it as his duty to preserve and contribute to promoting the values of tolerance and peaceful coexistence, and the Group strives to be an integral part of the social fabric. Furthermore, by concentrating on building a strong business, the Group is able to provide services that help to mitigate crises and support local communities.

Humanitarian Contributions

Alhutheily Group has launched

The Largest Literary Award in Yemen

Further demonstrating the Group’s commitment to culture and literature, Alhutheily Motors and Heavy Equipment FZE has signed a literary sponsorship deal with Anaween Books, the only Yemeni publishing house to participate in the Sharjah International Book Fair, which was held in November 2022. The sponsorship contract includes presenting prize money across nine categories, including pop poetry, classic poetry, and novels. More broadly, the initiative aims to encourage literature and culture, and is a call for peace, dialogue, and love.

Regional Expansion

Following an ambitious regional expansion plan, Alhutheily Group now operates in highly competitive markets, including the United Arab Emirates, where facilities

Beyond U.A.E. borders, Alhutheily Group has real estate investments in Egypt and looks forward to exploring more opportunities in the country, especially in light of recent advancements in Egypt including infrastructure development and the introduction of procedures and regulations that facilitate investment and commercial enterprises. As it continues its growth trajectory, Alhutheily Group also plans to expand into Sudan through investment projects relating to cars and trucks, and land transportation. The Group aims to grow its investment portfolio and embrace the resources and promising investment opportunities available in the country, especially since the recent signing of a peace agreement. Looking ahead, Hussein Alhutheily hopes this will be the beginning of a comprehensive and promising development in Sudan.

By Hani Ashkar, Territory Senior Partner, PwC Middle East