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10 SOUTH ASIA GATEWAY TERMINALS (PVT) LTD
ABOUT
SAGT
OUR PURPOSE OUR VISION ESTABLISHED IN
Empowering To be the most 1999
Sri Lanka’s Hub trusted gateway in 16M
Aspirations. the Indian Ocean.
ACCESS CHANNEL
OUR MISSION
15M
• To safely turnaround all ships within an optimum time (24x7x365)
• To empower employees and provide them with an exemplary ALONGSIDE DEPTH
work environment every day whilst forging sustainable and 940M
accountable growth as a team
• To continuously incorporate best practices and technologies QUAY LENGTH
across the business
• To be amongst the world’s top 3 terminals by 2020 03
BERTHS
5,544
GROUND SLOTS
540
REEFER POINTS
COMPANY PROFILE OUR CORE VALUES
South Asia Gateway Terminals Ltd ( SAGT) is a Sri Lankan container terminal transportation SAGT’s vision is underpinned by
operating shipping service Company located in the Port of Colombo. It is one of the four five core values that represent
container terminals operating in Colombo Port and offers back-to-back connectivity with the the principles on which the
new basin of the Port of Colombo that offers deep draft facilities. It is a private limited Company Company was founded. These five
owned by the John Keells Holdings which is the major shareholder and hold 42% of Company foundational tenets are cascaded
ownership. The terminal also consists of other major shareholders such as Evergreen Group down to operational level through
with 10% ownership, APM Terminals with 33% ownership and Sri Lanka Ports Authority with our Business Credo, Code of
15% ownership of the Company shares. Located on the main East-West shipping route with Conduct and other policies.
easy access to the coast of India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Maldives as well as the entire Bay of
Bengal region, the Colombo Port is ideally positioned to offer integrated port solutions to the Safety
container shipping and global maritime industry, and thereby serve as a key facilitator of trade
for the South Asia region. SAGT was founded in 1999 as a joint venture on a 30-year Build Trust and Integrity
Operate Transfer concession and started its operations on 5 September 1999 developing the
Queen Elizabeth Quay in the Port of Colombo. SAGT is the largest private sector investment Customer Centricity
in Sri Lanka and is also the first public-private partnership unit container terminal in Sri Lanka.
SAGT mainly serves as the transport sector to JKH Holdings. Since 1999, the terminal has Excellence
been playing a vital major role in the facilitation of international trade through Sri Lanka and
augmenting the capacity of the Colombo Port as South Asia’s main trading hub. It is also Team Work
affiliated with the Board of Investments as a flagship Company.