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Power 25 2021: Paula Bellamy, Managing Director, Oceanwide Logistics Dubai, Ranks 20


Bellamy and Oceanwide Logistics USA set up Oceanwide Logistics (OL) Dubai in August 2016 to offer domestic and international freight solutions in the region.

“The challenge to set up from zero was an enjoyable journey, I learnt a lot about myself and other nationalities along the way, I thoroughly believe this experience helped shaped me into a much better businesswoman with an entrepreneurial vision I didn’t have before I arrived in the UAE,” she says.

She was awarded the Woman Professional in Transport & Logistics in 2019 award, an accolade that has helping women in logistics to ‘find their voice’ alongside their male peers.

In 2020, due to the pandemic, Bellamy chose to re-locate back to the UK and in March 2021, she began working on strengthening OL’s presence in the UK & Europe by opening OL United Kingdom. She continues to be the remote Managing Director for the UAE.

She says: “COVID has been and continues to be a major challenge for the logistics industry, along with lack of space, equipment imbalance and rising rates. Cargo owners now have different countries on their radar, different routings and sometimes sourcing more locally to try to continue with their own business but everywhere prices have increased therefore it is the job of a freight forwarder to try to remain at the forefront of knowledge, latest news and different options for us to offer clients with their movements of cargo.”