Banker building air cargo empire

Mr Sanjeev Gadhia, founder and CEO of Astral Aviation, speaking at an event at Four Points by Sheraton, Nairobi Airport.

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When Sanjeev Gadhia quit banking, he saw a business opportunity in moving cargo for aid agencies and non-governmental organisations (NGOs).

For years, Kenya was known as the humanitarian logistics hub in Africa, supporting supplies in the then war-ravaged Somalia and reconstruction of Rwanda post-genocide and parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), for example.

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