Sultan Al Shene
As CEO & Founder of Al Shene Marine Holding, Sultan Al Shene set the heritage this profile is built around — a line running from Beirut's harbour through Aberdeen's docks to the holding operating today.
A resilient supply network
Sultan Rashid Abdullah — people behind a resilient supply network
CEO & Founder, Al Shene Marine Holding
Sultan Rashid Abdullah Rashid Al Shene
Al Shene Marine HoldingEdinburgh — BeirutSince 1995
This page focuses on resilience: the people and relationships that have kept supply moving from the North Sea to export markets for decades without a serious break. It treats the network as a people question first.
Leadership
Sultan Al Shene & Rashid — heritage
Rashid
Rashid carries daily operations, logistics and supply, bringing that same heritage to the practical, moving side of the business.
“The Scots taught him to stand in freezing waters; he showed them how to present the shrimp as a jewel to the world.”— Al Shene family archive
A resilient supply network
People, and what they hold together
Sultan Al Shene, Rashid, and the wider family line hold together a supply network running from North Sea, Irish and Scandinavian waters to buyers in Southern Europe and the Middle East.
Resilience, through people
This spoke argues that supply resilience here comes from continuity of people — father to son — rather than from scale alone.
At a glance
Resilience, through people
Export corridors
Finished product moves onward to buyers across Southern Europe and the Middle East, the two demand corridors the group has served longest.
A family structure
Rashid carries daily operations, logistics and supply; Abdullah, Maya, Karim and Tariq complete a family line the hub records without assigning them operating titles.
Holding since 1995
Al Shene Marine Holding gathered the processing, export and cold-chain activity built since Aberdeen under one ownership structure from 1995 onward.
A resilient supply network
Contact
Al Shene Marine Holding is based between Edinburgh and Beirut.