IN Brief:
- Rohlig SUUS Logistics has opened a subsidiary in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
- The operation will cover road transport, freight forwarding, warehousing, intermodal services, and customs brokerage.
- The move strengthens logistics capacity along Central Asian trade routes.
Rohlig SUUS Logistics has opened a subsidiary in Uzbekistan, expanding its Central Asian presence with a new operation in Tashkent.
The subsidiary will provide international road transport, domestic distribution, sea, rail, and air freight forwarding, intermodal services, warehousing, and customs brokerage. The move follows the company’s expansion into Kazakhstan and gives Rohlig SUUS a deeper operating base in a region increasingly used for overland freight, industrial supply chains, and alternative trade routing.
Uzbekistan’s location gives it access to routes between Europe, Central Asia, China, and the Caspian region, making it more relevant to logistics providers as shippers reassess corridor risk. Border congestion, longer maritime transits, geopolitical disruption, and container imbalances have all pushed businesses to look more carefully at multimodal alternatives.
With more than 2,600 employees and over 40 branches across nine markets, Rohlig SUUS is building a network that combines forwarding, warehousing, and customs capability rather than relying only on partner coverage. A local office in Tashkent should improve control over documentation, domestic distribution, and cross-border coordination.
Regional road freight capacity has also been growing elsewhere in Asia, with Rhenus strengthening its Asia Pacific road freight network as logistics providers add more overland options outside traditional coastal gateways. Rohlig SUUS’ Uzbekistan expansion belongs to the same wider shift towards route optionality and local control.
Central Asia is not a direct replacement for maritime freight or air cargo, but it can add resilience where lead times, cost, or disruption exposure make single-route planning too fragile. For industrial shippers, even partial route diversity can support contingency planning, especially for machinery, components, raw materials, and higher-value cargo.
The practical advantage of a local subsidiary is often found in operational detail. Customs brokerage, warehouse availability, domestic transport, language capability, and border documentation can determine whether a route is usable at scale. Without those services in place, an alternative corridor may remain commercially attractive in theory but unreliable in practice.
Uzbekistan also has its own manufacturing and export base, giving logistics providers a two-way opportunity. Imports support industrial development, consumer supply, machinery, and components, while exports include textiles, agricultural products, manufactured goods, and regional trade flows. A forwarder with local operations can connect those flows into wider European and Asian networks.
Route diversity is becoming a structural requirement rather than a temporary reaction to disruption. Companies that can combine road, rail, air, sea, warehousing, and customs services across emerging logistics markets will have a stronger position as trade flows continue to shift around infrastructure, regulation, and geopolitical constraints.
For Uzbekistan, the next stage will depend on infrastructure quality, border performance, and regional cooperation. Rohlig SUUS’ Tashkent operation adds another professional logistics layer to a market that is gaining weight in Eurasian freight planning.
