FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
1st August 2018.
A business would use ISATL because of its strength in respect to the professional workforce, repo of logistics and the standard of HSSE Compliance.
Followings are few major features with respect to land, location and shape which will attract a business to use ISATL:
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31 Acres of freehold land
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Away from the City traffic. Located beside the Dhaka –Chittagong highway providing easy access for vehicles carrying RMG and other export products from Dhaka.
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Access to Port through Class 1 grade Highway and through dedicated connecting road to Port.
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Nearest distance from Port is 8 km.
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Square shaped Land plot, advantages in yard and traffic planning
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Excellent drainage system to keep area free of waterlogging.
Empty Container handling & storage, Export cargo storage & export container stuffing and Import container delivery (Specific 39 import items)
The Off-Dock service is essential and significant for the following reasons:
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Concentration points for long distance cargoes and its unitization.
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Provides support and service as a transit facility.
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Provides customs clearance facility available near the centers of production and
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Reduces level of demurrage and pilferage.
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No customs required at gateway ports.
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Issuance of bill of lading by shipping lines, hereby resuming full liability of shipments.
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Reduces overall level of empty container movement.
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Provides competitive transport cost.
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Reduces inventory cost.
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Increases trade flows.
The primary functions of Off-Dock service may be summed up as under:
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Receipt and dispatch or delivery of cargo.
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Stuffing and stripping of containers.
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Transit operations by rail or road to and from serving ports.
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Customs clearance.
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Consolidation and desegregation of cargo.
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Temporary storage of cargo and containers.
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Reworking of containers.
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Maintenance and repair of container units.
The Off-Dock service is used to export different items like jute and jute made products, medicines, readymade garments, footwear, knitwear, woven garments, leather and leather products, frozen seafood etc. Various forwarders/shippers uses Off-Dock service as well like all other cargo services. Various forwarders/shippers realized the necessity of having an Off-Dock location and that is why they already started this service to smooth the export and import activity with customs clearing.
There is no challenge of water logging at ISATL even during the heavy rainfall. ISATL is located 39.36 feet above sea level.<!–?p >
The duty on merchandise is based on bonded area and commercial area. Bonded area like Export Processing Zone (EPZ) is duty free for merchandise and commercial area is not duty free. Various forwarders/shippers uses Off-Dock facility for importing of different items like petroleum products, plastics and rubber articles, yarn, food grains, capital machinery, chemical, edible oil, sugar, wheat, spices, cotton and so on. To unload the items and for customs clearing with necessary formalities off-Dock facility provides different services to ease the process.
