tabb has today announced the launch of Kenya’s first fuel credit line at scale in a strategic partnership with Galana Energies. The facility is live and already transacting across all Galana service stations in East Africa.
The launch comes at a critical moment for the transport and logistics sector, as sharply rising fuel prices have significantly increased the working capital required to keep fleets operational across the region.
The challenge confronting fleet operators, transporters, and logistics companies is not simply that fuel costs more. It is the same fleet now requires substantially more capital to operate than it did weeks ago. For businesses running large fleets, this represents a significant and sudden increase in the cash required simply to fill a tank before a single delivery has been made or a single contract fulfilled.
Addressing the Working Capital Challenge Facing Fleet Operators
“What we’re launching today is the clearest expression yet of tabb’s role in the market: connecting banks, suppliers, and businesses so that credit flows to where it is needed, instantly and without cost. Suppliers get paid on the day. Businesses get the fuel they need. And the informal credit arrangements that have held this sector back begin to give way to something that actually works.”
Don Okoth, Director of Mobility, tabb
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Through the partnership with Galana Energies, tabb provides a formal, structured alternative. Fleet operators and logistics companies apply for a bank-issued revolving credit line through tabb’s partner banks and draw on it directly at any Galana service station across East Africa. The supplier receives guaranteed payment at the point of sale. The operator repays the bank over an agreed period of 30 to 90 days.
The working capital gap is bridged. Operations continue without disruption, and the informal credit arrangements that have quietly burdened the supply chain are replaced by a system in which every participant is properly served.
How tabb’s Fuel Credit Solution Works
This credit line that moves with the business, available at the point of fuelling and repaid as revenue comes in, means operators are no longer forced to choose between meeting their fuel obligations and meeting everything else.
Access to reliable, structured credit is what separates businesses that grow from those that stall.
“I see this partnership as the inflection point where tabb’s trade credit network moves from enabling transactions to fundamentally reshaping how the entire transport and logistics industry finances its largest expense. Credit should be a tool for growth, not a burden, and that is exactly what we are making it.”
Mesh Alloys, CEO, tabb
Building East Africa’s Trade Credit Infrastructure
The partnership with Galana Energies represents a significant but deliberate step in tabb’s broader mission to build the credit infrastructure that East Africa’s businesses deserve. Through a bank-issued credit line, accepted across a growing network of suppliers spanning fuel, hardware, pharmaceuticals, retail, and beyond, tabb is systematically closing the working capital gap that has constrained business growth across the region for decades.
As fuel prices continue to test the resilience of the transport and logistics sector, this launch demonstrates that structured, accessible credit is not a distant ambition. It is available now, it is operational, and it is designed to scale with every business that needs it.
