Logistics and Transportation Sector

Overview of the Sector

The logistics and transportation sector includes the provision of passenger and freight transportation services by rail, road, sea, or air, and activities related to these services, as well as the provision of logistics and supply chain services and the operation and maintenance of facilities, including passenger terminals, parking lots, freight handling, warehousing, and others.

Dr. Abdullah Al-Abdulkarim

Deputy Minister for Human Capacity Development
We are witnessing a distinct shift in the nature of work today—not merely regarding jobs themselves, but concerning the individual: their mindset, working methods, and professional expectations, all of which impact business sustainability. In the coming years, the challenge will lie not only in the availability of talent but in our ability to effectively channel their skills. It is therefore crucial to organize these skills and align them with sector needs, ensuring that human capital is leveraged in a way that harmonizes individual expectations with industry requirements, thereby boosting the sector’s global competitiveness. Accordingly, a set of initiatives has been proposed to foster practical skill development, directly link skills to sector needs, and strengthen the private sector’s role as a key partner in building and ensuring the quality of talent.

Members

Eng. Fahad Al-Musaitir
General Manager of Safety and Compliance
Mr. Abdulmajeed Al-Musfer
Director of Transport Operations Department
Mr. Nawaf Rushdi
General Manager of Human Resources
Mr. Hisham Hamed Al-Sharif
Vice President for Strategy
Mr. Anis Mahmoud Al-Sayed
Operations Manager
Dr. Ibrahim Azmakna
Regional Operations Director for the GCC and the Indian Subcontinent
Mr. Saud Rabie Al-Enezi
Head of Fleet and Transport Sector
Captain Mohammed bin Abdullah Waqqas
Director General of Air Training and Operations
Mr. Ziyad Al-Bayez
VP Flight Operations (Acting)
Mr. Syed Azharuddin
General Manager of Training and Organizational Development
Mr. Abdulrahman Al-Ghamdi
Chief Operating Officer
Dr. Mashael Al-Qahtani
Director of Empowerment and Localization Department
Ms. Mashael Khalid Al-Assaf
Vice President for Empowerment
Mr. Saud Al-Muqbil
Director General of Localization
Mr. Ahmed Al-Fadhil
Curriculum Supervisor
Mr. Sultan Al-Rashidi
Executive Director of Business Development

Sectoral Skills Framework

 A sectoral skills framework serves as a comprehensive tool for identifying the skills required in a sector; it specifies the skills needed for each job family within the sector’s value chains. The sectoral skills framework follows a systematic approach to identifying the skills needed in the sector: first, job groups were identified within the subsectors, followed by the identification of key job roles, career paths, and priority skills. 
Groups and Career Paths
Develop an overview of the sector and its subsectors, the major trends in the sector, and the skills required in line with those trends, in addition to identifying job categories and career paths in the logistics and transportation services sector.
Skills Dictionary
Provide details on the technical and soft skills associated with the main job categories in the logistics and transportation services sector in the Kingdom.
Skills Database
The Excel tool serves as a supplement to the Logistics and Transportation Services Sector Skills Dictionary report and the introduction to the Logistics and Transportation Services Sector Skills Framework. The tool focuses on two main types of skills: general skills and technical skills.

Professional Standards Framework

National documents outlining standards for the description of occupations and their associated jobs, including the knowledge, skills, requirements, and competencies necessary to perform job roles and tasks. This includes the application and use of these standards in various contexts depending on the users, such as human resources professionals, training centers, and others interested in human capacity building.

Partnerships

Strategic partnerships for sectoral skills councils are a fundamental pillar for helping to meet the evolving needs of the labor market, Integration between the public and private sectors and training and educational institutions is one of the cornerstones of the sectoral skills councils’ work; it helps bridge the skills gap between supply and demand, improves the quality of educational and training outcomes, and enhances the efficiency of human capital as the primary driver of national development.
Logistics Academy

Training Programs

Programs that have been aligned with the skills framework to ensure that learning and training outcomes are consistent with the technical and general skills identified by the sectoral skills councils and included in the sectoral skills frameworks.