About Us

GAC Bahrain is one of the Kingdom’s largest shipping and forwarding agencies, offering a full range of shipping, logistics and marine services from our main office and warehouse complex in Hidd, Bahrain Investment Wharf.

GAC Bahrain is one of the Kingdom’s largest shipping and forwarding agencies, offering a full range of shipping, logistics and marine services from our main office and warehouse complex in Hidd, Bahrain Investment Wharf.

Since its foundation in 1957, Gulf Agency Company (GAC) Bahrain has gained more than 60 years of expertise and become the leading shipping, logistics and marine services provider in the Kingdom today. We have been involved in many major infrastructural projects and we pride ourselves on being an innovative provider of end-to-end supply chain solutions.

We offer a complete range of ship agency and related services round-the-clock at all ports and terminals in Bahrain and can handle all vessel types including tankers, dry bulk and cruise. Services for dry dock repairs are also available. Our fleet of purpose-built crew and supply launches are also available for offshore support. Our in-house P&I team of experienced claim handlers and surveyors has the legal and technical expertise and strong relationships with local authorities, port officials, terminals and receivers to help expedite case handling and minimise your financial exposure.

GAC Bahrain’s comprehensive portfolio of logistics solutions serves a diverse range of sectors with multimodal freight services, contract logistics, land transportation, ship spares logistics, upstream oil and gas logistics, project logistics, household and corporate relocation as well as records management, and end-to-end supply chain support.

Our 3,200m² ambient warehouse and office complex in Hidd has a capacity of 3,000 pallet positions. Its location, close to the King Fahd Causeway – a vital link between Bahrain and eastern Saudi Arabia – enables efficient forwarding and transportation of goods. The warehouse caters to all types of cargo including palletised, breakbulk and containerised. Together with our two customs-bonded warehouses at the airport and seaport, we offer customers a full range of multimodal options for cross stuffing, cargo consolidations and handling of transit cargoes to the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia and beyond - all under a single roof.

GAC Bahrain is an Integrated Management System (IMS) certified shipping and logistics service provider, having achieved ISO 9001:2015, ISO 14001:2015 and OHSAS 18001:2007 certifications. The company has also had its commitment to ethical business practices confirmed with certification by TRACE International.

The GAC Group's financial strength, global reach, reputation and commitment to innovation enable us to expand in step with our customers worldwide, responding to their needs and the changing demands of local, regional and global markets. Our customers are central to everything we do. It is their ever-increasing demand for competitive solutions that drives us to refine and integrate our services to meet their needs.