Oriental Machine Tools Export Co.

Our office is Room No 13 at 53 Bhajipala Lane. It’s a small space in Masjid Bunder West, which is not far from Mohammad Ali Road. If you know that area, you know it’s one of the busiest and most crowded places you could ever be. The streets are extremely narrow and always full of handcarts and laborers. We focus on machine tools here. Mostly we are dealing with exports to other countries, so we spend a huge amount of time on the phone or writing out shipping documents for the port. It’s a lot of paperwork and tracking numbers. The room is pretty cramped with old files and a couple of desks that have seen better days. We’ve been in this building for many years now. It has a lot of character, though the stairs are steep and the elevator is a bit shaky. We aren't a big fancy export house with a glass building in a business park. We are right here in the thick of the market where all the trade happens. You can hear the vendors shouting prices outside all day long. It’s an energetic place to work, even if it's a bit stressful. Sometimes it's a real headache to get things delivered because of the gridlocked traffic, but we manage somehow. We know most of the customs agents and the transporters by their first names. It’s all about those long-term connections we have built up over the years.