Proactive partnership
Genuine collaboration with customers, consultants and supply-chain partners is what lets us deliver quality work on time and on budget.
The company
About Ishtar Legend
An Iraqi general trading and contracting company, based in Basra, serving energy and industrial operations in southern Iraq and across the country.
Who we are
Local knowledge. Global supply. Reliable execution.
Ishtar Legend provides a range of services to a client base concentrated in the southern Iraq energy sector. We work as part of the client's team, delivering complex work in difficult and often hazardous operating environments.
What distinguishes the company is not any single service line but the joins between them. International sourcing, freight, customs clearance, storage, road transport and final delivery all sit inside one company. A requirement does not stall in the gap between three suppliers, and accountability does not change hands at the port gate.
The company's chemicals activity began in 2017 and has since extended into logistics, industrial supply, equipment leasing, contracting, shipping and customs, fire and safety systems, marine services and maintenance.
Our approach
A commitment to excellence, itemised
Focused sector expertise
The work is led by people who understand what our customers actually need, not by a generalist reading a specification for the first time.
Early cost certainty
Capital and operating cost is reduced by getting the pre-construction and pre-procurement thinking right, before commitments are made.
Commitment to Iraq
Staff development and long-term client relationships are how a company contributes to the country it works in. That is the standard we hold ourselves to.
Mission
To keep energy and industrial operations in Iraq supplied — sourcing to specification, clearing and moving material reliably, and staying accountable from the first enquiry to delivery on site.
Vision
To be the supply and services partner that international and national operators in Iraq turn to first, because the work is done properly and the same company answers for every stage of it.
Our values
Integrity
We state what we can do and what we cannot. A commitment made in a quotation is a commitment kept on site.
Safety
Health and safety is given primacy in everything we do, supported by risk analysis and written work-method statements.
Reliability
Our clients operate in difficult and often hazardous environments. Delivery on time and on budget is the minimum they can plan around.
Partnership
We work as part of the client's team rather than at arm's length from it — with customers, consultants and supply-chain partners alike.
Quality
Robust processes and policies, developed so that our operations give clients the standard of service they are entitled to expect.
Local commitment
This is our community, our people and our country. Developing our staff and our client relationships is how we contribute to it.
Our people
The experience that does the work
Ishtar Legend is committed to recruiting, retaining and developing the best team available. Every member of staff is given room to progress within the company through education and vocational training.
Our staff bring professional experience across a wide range of disciplines, from within Iraq and internationally. That has included sending marine personnel to the Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport in Egypt, where they qualified as officers and engineers with internationally recognised certification.
Where we operate
Head office
Basra — Head Office
Manawi Basha, central Basra. Commercial, procurement and contracts base.
Chemical warehousing
Khor Al Zubair Free Zone
Chemical storage located inside the free zone for proximity to the ports and for handling goods before and after customs clearance.
Service coverage
Southern Iraq energy corridor
Client base concentrated in the southern Iraq energy sector.
Your operations.
Our commitment to deliver.
From industrial supply and chemicals to logistics, equipment and contracting — talk to Ishtar Legend about your next requirement in Iraq.