The Hayleys Group has commissioned a modern container freight station (CFS) in Sri Lanka in partnership with Logilink.
The facility will house a customs bonded area for imports to support the trade in industrial raw materials, particularly for the garment sector, and components for the manufacture of finished products for export.
Set up as a member of Hayleys Advantis, the group's transport business cluster, the complex named Logilink (Pvt) Limited is located at Welisara and comprises of 42,000 square feet of covered warehouse space with ten container loading bays and a one-acre yard.
The CFS is designed and equipped to comply with the USA's C-TPAT (Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism) and the European TAPA (Transported Asset Protection Association) safety requirements for cargo.
According to Lasitha Cumaratunga, executive director of Logilink, the role of the company would be to deliver greater efficiency, direct and indirect cost savings for companies, enabling them to better focus on their core operations.
"Many international buyers require consolidation of consignments from multiple factories and appoint consolidators to coordinate the process," said Captain Cumaratunga. "Logilink is offering a facility with state-of-the-art infrastructure including CCTV monitoring of all cargo, high security access control, bar coding, Automatic Identification and Data Capturing (AIDC) and two-way inventory information to these service providers and customers adding value for all parties."
By locating and servicing its consolidation and customs bond facilities at a single location, Logilink said it has an opportunity to maximise savings on inland transport by using the same vehicle fleet that delivers raw materials, to carry outbound manufactured goods to the CFS, establishing a link between a customer's import and export supply chains.
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