Route to Market: Delivering Duty-Free Excellence Across West, Central, Southern Africa

Afrique Duty-Free's management have designed a seamless, efficient route to market that ensures brand owners benefit from optimized distribution across Africa’s most dynamic duty-free and travel retail channels. With unparalleled logistics and strategic retail solutions, we bring your products directly to high-demand international outlets.

Where We Operate

Our operations span Western Africa, Southern Africa, and Central Africa, with a robust logistics infrastructure centered around our Main Hub in Tangier Med Freezone—Africa's largest and most reliable duty-free zone. From this central hub, we arrange airfreight partnerships with Royal Air Maroc and Ethiopian Airlines, ensuring fast and reliable transport across the continent. Additionally, we provide micro-consolidated container loads, shipped from our Afrique DistriHub, our main continental hub, to proprietary deconsolidation and re-dispatching regional hubs located in Walvis Bay, Namibia, Monrovia, Liberia, and other key locations that we manage with boots on the ground. Our logistics reach extends across Liberia, Algeria, Zambia, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Central African Republic, Congo, Djibouti, and Burkina Faso. With 100% market reach in the regions we serve, we offer full-service distribution solutions tailored to your brand’s needs.

Our Clients:

We serve a wide array of duty-free and travel retail operators, including:

Airport Duty-Free Retailers
Border Shop Operators
Cruise Ship Suppliers
Aviation and Airline Companies
Diplomatic Missions
NGOs and Government Entities

Our commitment to serving only international duty-free channels guarantees full compliance with regulations, protecting brand integrity and ensuring products reach authorized, high-traffic outlets.

Categories We Distribute

We specialize in distributing premium products across major duty-free categories, including:

Tobacco
Liquors, Wines, and Spirits
Perfumes and Cosmetics
Confectionery
Luxury Goods and Accessories
Pharmaceuticals

With our expertise, your products are placed in the best locations to maximize visibility and sales, driving growth in Africa’s fastest-growing markets.

Retail Operations

In addition to logistics and distribution, Afrique Duty-Free operates and co-manages retail stores and duty-free boutiques at key international hubs, including airports, borders, and diplomatic centers. Our retail operations ensure comprehensive control and execution, giving brand owners full transparency and confidence in how their products are handled and sold. Our one-stop solution includes everything from logistics to retail execution, ensuring a streamlined process that drives performance in Africa’s travel retail industry.

Why Partner with Us

Our tailored route to market strategy provides brand owners with full control over distribution, ensuring efficient and timely product delivery to high-demand outlets across Africa. With proprietary logistics, cutting-edge retail operations, and a deep understanding of the African market, Afrique Duty-Free is your trusted partner for duty-free success.

CHARTER CARGO

We import from EU, USA and Asia, by our fully dedicated chartered aircrafts , receive at our logistic terminals and deliver to all our markets with Cessna 408 SkyCourier and heavy duty helicopters offering express deliveries to any available airstrip in western and central Africa.

GUARDED TRUCKS

We offer delivery service throughout West and Central Africa. We are able to manage the transport with the help of private guards and / or with highly trained armed escort and satellite control, with customs authorities if necessary (Tobacco, Liquors, etc.).

BORDER DEPOTS

We supply several points of sale in free zones, UN-controlled buffer zones, Military PX shops and borders missions in western and central Africa on a weekly basis, with scheduled arrivals at our final points of sale.

AIRLINES AND FOREIGN MISSIONS

This division is responsible for supplying regional airlines with consumables, including alcohol and tobacco, used on board or available on the airline's duty free catalog. We also supply private jets at all to major airstrips in Western and Central Africa.