Eagle Logistics celebrates 11 years of being different

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Eagle Logistics Colombo celebrated its 11th anniversary on 20 October with a religious ceremony at their corporate office at Colombo 03.

The company started business in 2005, a joint venture with CL Synergy Ltd., having just three staff and today its more than 100 employees and seven offices in the island and branch office in Maldives, Eagle Logistics offers uninterrupted customer service, backed by the largest customer service department in a freight company of Sri Lanka, and different product line in supply chain management.

Co-business being international import freight, Eagle Logistics has created its own product such as shipping desk, logistics consultation and regulatory consultation which is not common in the industry of freight forwarding in Sri Lanka.

The company considered supply chain management is important as logistics provider since logistics is being part of same. Managing Director Asanga Weerackody said, “Dealing with customers cargo booking coupled with origin and destination services is considered as traditional freight forwarding since global business practices changed, and supply chain managements became gaining ground. With this change we realised the potential of being part of supply chain management and understand the whole process is important. So we started to offer multiple services other than the co-products.

‘Think Different’ is the company theme and it is been practiced all the time during these 11 years; starting from recruitment where the company never recruited employees from any competitor and all the employees started their freight forwarding carrier at Eagle Logistics. Head of HR Christine Jennifer stated that grooming new comers is interesting as they are fresh and they come from different backgrounds. The first few months we understand their weakness and strength and then we match that with the position and it’s always successful. AGM Ashan Fernando who is taking care of the whole operation today said that he started his carrier at Eagle Logistics as a junior executive 10 years ago and the company HR policy help young inexperience people to join the logistics industry which is always looking for staff with experience.

Eagle Logistics Corporate office is located at R.A. De Mel Mawatha Colombo 03 and branch offices in Biyagama, Katunayake, Homagama, Moratuwa, Fort, Pepiliyana, Mirihana and overseas, Maldives.