Kanoo Shipping Agencies chairman Fawzi Kanoo has been awarded the Middle East Logistics Award (Mela) 2007.

He was honoured at an international festival in Dubai.

Kanoo heads the shipping agencies division of the Yusuf Bin Ahmed Kanoo group.

The division was started in the beginning of the last century and has been growing steadily since in the Middle East, and has agents across the globe covering the Far East, Europe and the US.