Off-dock is one of the dignified & popular businesses through the world. It deals with various import & export activity. In Bangladesh there are two sea ports one is Chittagong Sea Port another one is Mongla Sea Port. But Chittagong Sea Port is treated as the heart of Bangladesh. Because Bangladesh widely depends on that port for import & export and also earns a lot of revenue. So Chittagong Sea Port plays a vital role in our national economy.
An initiative of Summit Group and Alliance Holdings Limited, Summit Alliance Port Limited (SAPL) was initially incorporated as a private company under the Companies Act, 1994 on December 06, 2003 and converted to a Public Limited Company on March 06, 2008.
The Company’s registered office is located at Katghar, South Patenga, Chittagong – 4204 and Corporate Office at The Alliance Building, 63 PragatiSaraniBaridhara, Dhaka – 1212. With the permission of Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) vide its letter SEC/CI/IPO-101/08/343 dated July 01, 2008 the Company offered its shares to the Public and after completing all the required formalities, the shares of the Company commenced its trading through both the bourses of the Country effective from October 16, 2008. In 2012 SAPL acquired Ocean Containers Limited, the country’s pioneer Off-Dock company in the private sector, by amalgamation and the synergy thus achieved has further strengthen our capability both in terms of capacity and quality of service thereby giving us significant competitive edge over others.
Principal activities of the company are to provide Off-Dock services to its valued clients that include as under:
- Inland Container Depot comprising transportation and storage of empty containers and redelivery of the containers to various locations as per client’s advice.
- Container Freight Station comprising activities related to Export and Import cargo handling. The services that are provided include:
- Receiving of export cargo, storage of the same in bonded warehouse, documentation to complete formalities related to export, stuffing (loading) of the cargo in the container and transportation of the same after due customs formalities to the Port Container Yard or Vessel Hook as per Client’s advice.
- Receiving import cargo from port yard, documentation, unstuffing (unloading) of the same after due Customs formalities and handing over of cargo to clients.
- Company also provides some customized services to its clients, such as Container condition survey, its repair and maintenance; Fumigation; etc.
Besides, establishment of the company’s River Terminal, the first of its kind in the country’s private sector, on 15 acres of Company’s freehold land on the bank of river Dhaleshwari in Muktarpur under Munshiganj district is complete. We are awaiting issuance of Bond License from NBR and shall commence operation on receipt of the same. The River Terminal, being similar in certain respects to the Off-Dock establishment, shall have the bonded warehouse facilities with required handling equipment for Container Freight Station to handle export and import cargos as well as for storage of empty containers. In addition the company shall provide container vessels for transportation of cargo to and from Chittagong Port. Once operational the River Terminal shall help the Exporters and Importers to be competitive by transporting cargo by less costly river transportation as well as help ease the pressure on the already overburdened Dhaka-Chittagong highway. In order to facilitate future expansion the company has also procured adjacent land measuring in total 13.70 acre.
At Chittagong the company has three separate bonded depot on approx. 44 acre freehold land in Patenga, located 6.50 km away from the multipurpose container vessel berths of Chittagong Port, with facilities to provide both ICD and CFS services as detailed below:
- Total covered space of 511,000 sft including 7,020 sft for specialized Garments on Hanger (GOH), with 11 separate Warehouse spread over our three depot for storage of export cargo before stuffing and transportation of the same after completing Customs and other formalities.
- Import Warehouse of 19,500sft to handle import cargo
- Jute Warehouse measuring 8,430 sft
- ICD facility for storage of approx. 6,000 empty container (at any point of time) with developed yard area of over 1.50 million sft
- Plug-points for simultaneously handling 100 Refrigerated (Reefer) containers
- Fleet of heavy and light equipment’s including, amongst others, Laden Reach Stackers, Cranes, High & Low Mast Forklifts of various capacities, Empty Reach Stackers, Side Stackers Cargo Lifts, Trailers, Prime Movers and other handling equipment’s like hand-trolleys etc.
- Three Standby generators of 550 KVA, 320 KVA and 220 KVA capacities for supplying power to the entire yard and warehouses
The company has received the Global Security Verification (GSV) certification which is the leading international business network for supporting the development and implementation of measures for enhancing global supply chain security. With this GSV certificate the company was determined by an independent 3rd party expert as having the appropriate security measures in place, as published by the U.S. Bureau of Customs and Border Protection. Considering the immense opportunities in the sector, SAPL is in continuous strive to expand its infrastructure and facilities in order to set the standards and always remain ahead of the industry competitors. The company’s continuous investments in equipment and infrastructural development, including purchase of land coupled with the most professional management team in the industry has enabled SAPL to provide high standard of service to clients and gain a significant competitive edge. With the goodwill earned for the quality service of international standard over the years which was possible for the dedicated services provided by qualified and experienced management team and work force, SAPL enjoys an esteemed clientele list including, among others, DAMCO, Kuehne+Nagel Limited, APL Bangladesh Limited, DSV Air & Sea Limited, Maersk Bangladesh Limited and several other prestigious Freight Forwarders and Mainline Operators.