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The Facility will offer top-of-the-range third-party logistics (3PL) services & freight logistics under one roof for various industry verticals. The 10,000 pallet position capacity warehouse, with a state-of-the-art Warehouse Management System (WMS), best-of-the-breed MHE’s (Material Handling Equipment) and a well-trained team of logistics professionals, is geared to handle a multitude of cargo requirements.
With direct access to the highway within a 2 minute reach - one of the key strategic advantages, the facility has the ability to offer total logistics solutions with their own international freight network and customs brokerage set-up which has been serving the Sri Lankan market for over 37 years.
“This is certainly not another run-of-the-mill 3PL warehouse, nor is it one that offers value added services complementary to the bridge between unitized raw materials, whether they are assembled or finished goods or packaged and customised goods doing the last mile. The concept of holistic 4PL in our book will only make end-operations more transparent and magnified, enabling the downstream end-customer to be over satisfied, short of being pampered,” commented Dart Global Logistics President and Group Managing Director Charles Wijesundera.
The uniqueness of the strategic location being in-between the Colombo port and the airport, apart from having direct access to the Expressway network, gives the clients maximum advantage and opportunity to operate multi-faceted cross border shipping and trading operations by utilizing this unique facility.
The facility is fully equipped to source all levels and the total scope of 3PL services whilst technologically resourced by Cargowise, a cutting edge electronic data interchange (EDI) WMS which gives an absolute connectivity for effective client-vendor interaction functions.
“We at DGL, vision an entire cycle of supply chain complementary operations and services that are totally customised to downstream end-customer, with singular operator of all supply chain drivers. It could be a manufacturing conceptual visionary enabler, with a winner end-product which may not have the financial backing, nor the administrative machinery for the right time sourcing of requirements in right quantity nor have the importing, freight forward, receiving, transporting, storage and value adding expertise. With the new facility, DGL Fulfilment Center will offer all this under one roof and operational command," commented Romesh Wijenaike, Managing Director –DGL Sri Lanka.
With the new facility, clients are rest assured that all the services such as sourcing, financial backing, sea/air freighting, receiving, transporting, storing, adding value or assembling, issuing (to blend), receiving finished goods, storing and re-issuing when required, loading, transporting and distributing and reverse logistics can be all out-sourced to DGL. Clients also need not have procurement stores or warehouse, freight, transport and distribution departments of their own.
“This is an ultimate end-customer service journey, the DGL Fulfillment Center, Muthurajawela becomes the unenviable phase 1 and a model and integrator unit geared to start up all services," Wijesundera further added.
Dart Global Logistics has already acquired a few other facilities at strategic locations to support their very ambitious drive in total supply chain management, while bigger facilities are in the offing.
Whilst serving a multitude of sectors from apparel, fast moving consumer goods (FMCG), retail to industrial with a full-spectrum of services, DGL provides industry specific services such as Seasonal Build-Up Storage for the FMCG sector and Route-Planning and Outlet Delivery for the retail sector. DGL services also include Freight Forwarding, Integrated Logistic Services, Supply Chain Management, Just-in-time Logistics, Pharmaceutical Logistics, Perishable-product Logistics, High-net-worth Logistics, e-Commerce Engineering and Project Logistics.
Dart Global Logistics, formally known as Dart Express commenced operations in Sri Lanka in 1983 as part of the Hong Kong based Dart Express Group. Due to the success of Sri Lankan operations, DGL expanded its reach to the Indian subcontinent which had an enormous potential in the region. Across the years the group has successfully made inroads and has been offering services in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Dubai, Madagascar, Mauritius, Vietnam, Indonesia, Cambodia, China, Myanmar & USA over the last 37 years. Considered as one of the top international logistics service providers in the Asia Pacific region, DGL operates through 40 offices across 14 countries strategically located.