O.Rentals

Thani Al Shirawi, executive director, Al Shirawi Enterprises, says: “Our experience and passion for rental services has allowed us to serve our clients ensuring we meet all their requirements and exceed their expectations. O.rentals is a cost-effective alternative to owning capital intensive machinery.  If you are a startup that doesn’t wish to purchase expensive machinery, or a company restricted by limitations to increase your inventory, then O.rentals offers the perfect solution.”

Over the years, a steep incline in e-commerce has increased the demand for material handling equipment. To cater to this rising customer need, O.rentals boasts the largest fleet of material handling equipment in the UAE – over 600 machines (with 85% rented) that include electric, diesel, manual and automated versions.

“We know the importance of productivity in an agile warehouse, and why our customers need the optimal machines for handling (in-and-out) their merchandise. We look to build strategic partners in our material handling and intralogistics service customers. We service the handling of a wide range of product types including glass, paper, and food across multiple sectors and industries including third-party logistics, airports and manufacturing facilities. We understand the flexibility required by rental companies; that’s why our material handling equipment is available for short-term rent starting from one day to long-term leases of up to five years and beyond, allowing our customers to focus on their core business activities,” says Al Shirawi. 

In 2020/21, dynamic ground compaction projects saw 14 cranes from O.rentals working across three remote sites around the world. They include three cranes in Mozambique, Africa, to prepare the ground to build a gas production facility and four cranes on the Hail and Ghasha Island in UAE. The remaining seven cranes were deployed to the other side of the globe in Mexico, along with 25 personnel including operators and technicians, spare parts and workshop containers, ensuring maintenance and repairs can be carried out on-site with the maximum uptime.

“Dynamic compaction projects come several hassles, especially if they are remote. That’s why a number of our clients who own cranes still use O.rentals for remote-projects, because we take the stress out of maintenance and repairs and assure completion on time, to avoid costly penalties. Our fleet of cranes have been used for numerous notable projects across the UAE, Middle East, and beyond, such as the three Palm Islands in Dubai; all major oil and gas islands in the UAE; the Dhaka Metro in Bangladesh; and the Dos Bocas Refinery in Mexico, to name a few. We have expanded our geographical footprint through our outreach programmes. Our fleet of crawler cranes are well travelled; from the start of our business, our cranes have been servicing areas outside the UAE. In the early 2000s, cranes for our first project landed directly from the factory to a jobsite in Saudi Arabia. Since then, they have been used in all the Emirates within the UAE, all GCC countries, Singapore, Turkmenistan, Bangladesh, Mexico and Mozambique. We continue to look to the future with excitement and look forward to having our cranes reach all continents on the map, while expanding our fleet to gain continuous rental contracts all over the world,” says Al Shirawi.