Lutful Seaways Limited, the only GPLN member in Bangladesh, recently completed UN project RFPS – 1473, handling of Bangladesh Air Force owned contingent equipment in Bangladesh.
Lutful was appointed to handle this UN project from door, Dhaka, to the seaport in Chittagong, Bangladesh, though the original destination of this cargo was door, Bunia, Democratic Republic of Congo, through Mombasa port, Kenya. Lutful was chosen because of their in depth knowledge and experience in handling sensitive and large project cargo.
Lutful provided all four services for this project which included inland transportation from door, Dhaka, to Chittagong, storage at BAF Zahurul Haque Base, Chittagong, export customs clearance and shipping agency for the loading vessel at Chittagong Port.
A total number of 82 packages were handled which consists of BAF trucks, trailers, ambulance, jeep, generator, fuel tank, water tank, containers, break bulk cargo, generators, sensitive cargo such as engine and propellers of BAF C-130 aircraft.
Lutful did bring all packages from BAF Maintenance Unit, Dhaka Cantonment to BAF Zahurul Haque Base, Chittagong by carrying them all the way on suitable trailers (as per UN conditions), all packages were stored at BAF Zahurul Haque Base and after export customs clearance and survey, the packages were loaded into the chartered vessel.
According to the Lutful Group Chairman, Lutful H. Chowdhury, "Over the years we did handle project, heavy-lift, oversized and overweight cargo for the oil & gas sector, power & energy, industry infrastructure, communications, and turn key projects and even in military sector, but this is something we are obviously proud of, contributing to the UN peace keeping mission through Bangladesh Air Force. We are certainly looking forward to contribute more as Bangladesh is holding number the one nation place in terms of number of troops deployed by a single country in various UN peace keeping mission."
Furthermore, Mr. Karimul Haque, General Manager (Operations) added "This was obviously a complicated operations since we had to bring all packages all the way from Dhaka to Chittagong on trailers and had to take cautious measures so that none of the packages were damaged during loading and unloading operations and also during the inland transportation. We undertook special security and safety measures for the transportation of propellers and engines of C-130 aircraft".
Mr. Robert Gomez, Branch Manager in Dhaka said "We involved nearly 67 personnel from both of our Chittagong and Dhaka offices and worked very hard to complete a successful operation. We received full support and co-operation from BAF personnel for which we are grateful to them.”
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