Gulf Stevedoring Contracting

Gulf Stevedoring Contracting Company (GSCCO) was founded in 1985 with its mission being to provide the highest quality, most efficient and effective service to the satisfaction of its clients. After 16 years of steady growth the company now employs over 5000 personnel of diverse nationalities and skills backed by a highly motivated and professional management team. From its incorporation the company has won a succession of prestigious port projects throughout the Kingdom against opposition from larger and longer established rivals demonstrating its competitiveness and efficiency. The company is currently operating 3 of the largest port projects in the Kingdom and is in the process of developing the Northern Container Terminal in Jeddah Islamic Port. In all its endeavor the company utilizes the latest methods and techniques of management and employs state of the art technology in all aspects of its operations. One of the company's principal objectives and also one of the main reasons for its success is and always has been its use of key personnel in the most effective way possible. This means utilizing the knowledge and experience of senior management to the full in their specialist areas but also encouraging the whole team to contribute to the overall development of the company and the achievement of its goals in the most effective and efficient way possible. This inevitably means that although a manager will have a prime role in the organization as defined by the organization charts, he is also encouraged and expected to take an interest in as many other areas as possible. As well as this contributing many innovative and valuable ideas and concepts towards the development of the company it also has the added advantage that the role of managers is made more interesting and challenging and they are able to assume the role of their colleagues in the event of absence of a colleague or emergency, giving a coherence of progress and objectives and a depth of management expertise that is equaled in very few organizations. As can be seen from the attached charts the structure has been kept flat and all levels contribute directly to the success of the company and the achievement of their departmental objectives. Each project has been set up to be self sufficient and self-reliant but uses the head office resources for corporate matters. With the active day to day support and contribution of the chairman and the board and the very immediate and hands on approach of the managing director in all projects and all areas this ensures that communications between all levels and all projects and departments are maintained at the very highest level at all times and the wealth of talent and experience in the management team is utilized to the full .