TRADE DELEGATION
Following a recent trade mission in conjunction with the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce and the IPTU (India Pakistan Trade Unit) to Karachi, Chambers & Cook are pleased to announce the appointment of DMK Logistics as their service partner in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
ABOUT DMK LOGISTICS
DMK Logistics’ started trading in the late 1970s as a small-scale family business specialising in customs clearance at Lahore dry port. The company was formally setup in 1996 as a professional freight forwarding organization and it has evolved extensively since then. DMK employs over 157 staff in 5 Sales offices in Pakistan, with the head office being based in Lahore, and branch offices in Karachi, Faisalabad, Sialkot and Islamabad: Operations offices are based in Port Qasim, Kabul (Afghanistan) and Kandahar (Afghanistan), and the company also has 3 subsidiary companies, Lahore Axis Container Terminal 1, Eagle Shipping and Aviation, and DMK Afghanistan.
AFGHAN TRANSIT TRADE
DMK has been developing its Afghan Transit Business since 2001. The conducted the first of several road surveys immediately after the war ended to analyze the most efficient routes to several destinations in Afghanistan. After almost 9 years in this business, today DMK can effectively handle both commercial & non-commercial shipments, including food supplies, construction materials, heavy construction machineries and heavy vehicles – from Karachi they connect to the following destinations in Afghanistan:
Northern Afghanistan
- Jalalabad
- Kabul
- Bagram Airbase
Northern Route
South Afghanistan (via Chamman border)
- Kandahar City
- Kandahar Airfield (KAF)
- Tarin Kowt
- Camp Bastion
- Camp Leatherneck
Southern Route
COLD CHAIN – REEFERS
DMK has developed special expertise in the handling and transportation of Refrigerated (Reefer) containers. Regular volumes of Reefer containers are delivered across the land-bridge into warehouse situated in Kabul and Kandahar, via a sophisticated system incorporating the use of staging stations en route. Overnight static plug-in capability and complete disaster management protocols are present at each station to ensure temperature requirements are strictly adhered to en route, whilst at the overflow depots in Kabul and Kandahar reefers can be plugged in until receiving parties are ready for delivery; Overflow terminals have the capacity for 25 gen-sets at any one time. There are also spare reefer containers available in case of complete irreparable breakdown.
DMK Owned Reefer Units
AIRFREIGHT AND DOMESTIC DISTRIBUTION
DMK has the resources to receive and customs clear airfreight consignments in Kabul, Kandahar, Bagram airbase and Camp Bastion, for onward delivery to anywhere in Afghanistan, utilising their own domestic distribution network.
For all your FCL, LCL and airfreight consignments to and from anywhere in Pakistan, and for onward delivery into Afghanistan, contact Chambers & Cook/DMK Logistics for a service second to none.
Storage facility in Kabul
- 8000 sq. meter
- 24/7 Supervisory staff
- 10 km from Kabul customs offices
- Storage capacity of up to 2000 TEUs
- Availability of cranes, forklifts, & oil pumps
CONTACT DETAILS
M. Wasim Khan (CEO)
129 E – 1 Main Boulevard Gulberg 111
LAHORE , PAKISTAN.
Tel: ++92-42-35877745 – 8
Direct: ++92-42-35764779
Cell: ++92-300-8441624
E Mail: wasimkhan@dmk.com.pk
Air Freight
Kashif Mahmood Butt (National Air Freight Manager)
Air Freight Central Division
129 E – 1 Main Boulevard Gulberg 111
LAHORE , PAKISTAN.
Tel: ++92-42-35877745 – 8
Direct: ++92-42-35761712
Cell: ++92-300-8417505
++92-322-5522220
E Mail: kashif.mahmood@dmk.com.pk
WebSite: http://www.dmklog.com.pk
KARACHI
SAADAT ALI ZIA (Product Manager)
DMK Logistics (Pvt) Ltd.
F-51, Block#8, (near III Talwar)
Clifton, Karachi – Pakistan
Web www.dmklog.com.pk
E-Mail saadat.ali@dmklog.com.pk
PABX +92 (21) 3582 1930-3 (ext. 133)
Direct +92 (21) 3582 1758
Fax +92 (21) 3582 1849
Cell +92 (333) 456 3399
