By Kamran Hashim
What started off with just 5 people now boasts more than a staff of 250 people who are very dedicated towards their work and are at the forefront in bringing in versatility in the company. Today Seagold (Pvt.) Limited has offices in four countries which are Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh and United Arab Emirates making it a major regional player in the field of logistics. Seagold (Pvt.) Limited is progressing by leaps and bounds with a very simple aim which is; “to be the market leaders within the industry”. This was stated by Mr. Humayun Khan, Manager Business Development at Seagold (Pvt.) Limited who was speaking candidly with the team BizToday at the recently held CPEC Business Opportunities Conference & Exhibition (CBOCE 2017) which was held at the local hotel recently and he further went on to say that; “Seagold (Pvt.) Limited (SGL) is proud to be sponsor and participant of first CPEC Business Opportunities Conference & Exhibition (CBOCE 2017)”.
He further informed that; ”since its formation almost 18 years ago on 1st September 2000, Seagold (Private) Limited has developed into one of the Pakistan’s leading specialist logistics and supply chain companies, advancing always in high quality client portfolio across a wide range of industry sectors both domestically and internationally”.
Today Seagold is the ranked number one in terms of handling export based cargo from Pakistan to United States of America and most customers from various sectors or exporting all sorts of commodities prefer to choose Seagold for exporting their goods to United States of America.
Besides exports Seagold also has expertise in import business also and successfully handled major projects like importing various critical components & machineries for IDEAS Exhibitions and then exporting them back to their to its destination i.e. South Africa. Another major project of imports handled by Seagold was import of construction machineries for 10 different projects relating to CPEC.
Seagold offers complete solutions for logistic requirements relating to Sea Freight, Air Freight and Inland Freight/transportation. We also offer complete solutions for Custom clearance.
On future plans of Seagold Humayun Khan said; “plans are to establish offices in Baluchistan with Gawadar being on top priority to cater CPEC relating business and on international front office in Vietnam is also in pipeline”.
On the conclusion note Humayun Khan said; “we at Seagold are very committed to provide the best possible solutions to customer’s logistic needs under single roof and we have offices in Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Faisalabad and very recently at a small border city of ‘Sust’ at Khunjerab Check Post of Pakistan China border. This latest edition is to cater expected load of work that may come due to CPEC. We are fully prepared for big regional events like CPEC and Expo 2020 at Dubai”.
For CPEC Humayun Khan was very hopeful and said; “CPEC will be very beneficial for Pakistan and many sector will benefit from it but some sectors like warehousing sector and logistic sectors will be benefit tremendously from CPEC”.
