International Freight Forwarding Services

Apt Merchant Shipping Lines Ltd. offers a portfolio of freight services covering the following segments.

• Sea Freight
• Air Freight
• Sea-Air Freight
• Sea-Land service
• Project Cargo Services
• Container Freight Station
• Warehousing
• International Movers
• Land Transport in whole Bangladesh land area

Apt Merchant Shipping Lines Ltd. offers Freight related services as an extension of their core activities to add value to their services :-

Sea Freight:-

FCL Full Container Services: We provide Import & Export services for FCL shipments from/to a wide range of ports worldwide in association with Freight Forwarders based in major cities around the world. Our customer base helps us to generate a good number of bookings which are serviced through the world wide network built by us.

LCL Less than Container Load / Groupage Cargo Services: The scope of our LCL services includes LCL (Import & Export), consolidation & groupage cargo services where we perform activities viz. collection of cargo from Shippers, movement to the Container Stuffing Terminal, Export Documentation, Planning the container stowage, Stuffing as per standards required by the Customer, Shipping on Board, Tracking the movement, Import Documentation & Door Delivery.

LCL Import cargo will be booked in association of our Freight Forwarding partner either as a multiport LCL consol container or as an LCL consignment loaded with a main line operator.

Offering services like:

• • LCL Services from CHITTAGONG
  • LCL Cargo to Bangladesh.
  • LCL Cargo Services to CHITTAGONG

Sea- Land Cargo Handling:-
Hub port status & excellent road infrastructure has made CHITTAGONG to emerge as a gateway for the following countries in the region.

• • India
  • Nepal
  • China
  • Bhutan

Logistics facilities in Chittagong & Mongla also encourage customers to achieve economies of scale by using Chittagong as the regional hub.

Apt Merchant Shipping Lines Ltd. has established linkages with road haulage companies to tap the available capacity at an attractive cost.

Offering the best of Logistics and Distribution in Chittagong and Container Load cargo from Chittagong.

Project Cargo Services from CHITTAGONG-BANGLADESH:-
Apt Merchant Shipping Lines Ltd. provides integrated project cargo logistics services covering the following aspects.

• • Advice on the selection of the port / airport to receive project cargo.
  • Coordination with shipping line / airline for monitoring the arrival of the vessel / aircraft.
  • Berthing of the vessel at a suitable berth, if Apt Merchant Shipping Lines Ltd. is also the vessel handling agent.

• Route survey from the terminal to the project site to determine the precautions to be taken & to be aware of the statutory limitations & permissions to be taken.
• Customs documentation.
• Supervision at the time of discharging the cargo.
• Arrangement of heavy lift cranes, if needed.
• Selection of suitable road hauliers & ensuring that required number of trailers with suitable capacity are lined up for road haulage.
• Making arrangements for the transhipment vessel or barge, if transhipment by sea is involved ?& moving the cargo to transhipment loading berth.
• Arranging discharge survey & loading survey (if applicable),
• Coordination with cargo receivers to ensure that project site is ready to receive the project cargo.
• Positioning of the project cargo at the site & assisting the receivers to offload the cargo at the site.