Managing Director
Sébastien Barth
Mr Sebastian Barth is a seasoned executive with over 25 years of senior leadership experience in supply chain, freight forwarding, logistics, and shipping across Europe and Africa. Currently serving as the Cluster Director of AGL Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, and Madagascar entities, Sebastian leads a team of more than 1200 individuals. In this role, he oversees multiple entities to provide supply chain solutions across hinterland Africa, including the Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia, Rwanda, Burundi, and Malawi, through Tanzania’s ports of Dar es Salaam, Tanga, and Mtwara. Among his notable achievements within the cluster portfolio is his leadership of EALS Limited, the Main Logistics Contractor for the East African Crude Oil Pipeline Project (EACOP). This project, known as the longest heated crude oil pipeline globally, extends from Uganda to Tanzania’s Tanga Port.
Previously, he held key positions in Madagascar and Senegal, overseeing operations, water supply projects, and logistics services. Fluent in Spanish, French, and English, Sebastian holds qualifications in transportation/logistics, marketing, and audit from ESCE – Paris
About
AGL Tanzania
A proud member of the MSC family, AGL (Africa Global Logistics) is the leader in multimodal logistics in Africa.
The group is developing Africa’s connectivity to itself, but also to the rest of the world thanks to its 23,000 employees located in 49 countries.
With a network of 250 subsidiaries in Africa, Timor and Haiti, AGL offers specialized services in the port, maritime, logistics and railway sectors.
The connection of the first integrated logistics network AGL in Africa to the world leader in maritime transport MSC will help accelerate the logistics transformation of the continent. Thanks to its recognized professionalism and the power of its network, the MSC Group thus consolidates the competitiveness and connectivity of the continent, in an environment marked by the desire of States to implement the Continental Free Trade Area.