UAE-based Gulftainer, a leading privately-owned independent terminal operating and logistics company, has celebrated the signing of its first customers for the newly introduced sea cargo clearance service, Sharjah Port of Trade (Spot), said a report.

Within a month of the launch, the company has secured four customers for Spot that serves as an inland extension of the Gulftainer-operated Khorfakkan Container Terminal, KCT, reported state news agency Wam.

The Spot facility is located at the crossroads of the E311 highway and Maliha Road, providing unparalleled connectivity between Sharjah and Dubai with substantial cost and time savings for customers, it said.

The Galex service, offered collaboratively by Emirates Shipping Line and Korea Marine Transport Co, was the first to benefit from Spot’s value-added offering and successfully completed the first direct call at Khorfakkan Container Terminal in a record 3.4 hours.

Peter Richards, group chief executive officer of Gulftainer, presented commemorative tokens to the new customers of Spot at a gala event in Dubai in the presence of over 300 representatives of the maritime sector as well as senior company officials.