Darya-Bandar Consulting Engineers (DBC) is one of the most reputable and prominent private consultancy establishments in Iran, technically & scientifically approved and awarded the highest professional grade by the Management & Planning Organization (MPO), as the local governmental regulating body for practicing the consultancy profession. Moreover, for international projects in the past, DBC has been approved by UNIDO of the United Nations.

DBC was founded in 1980 to incorporate the resources & experiences of the pioneering multi-national Iran-NEDECO company as its predecessor, by Mr. Morteza Banijamali the founding Managing Director of both companies, because new corporate ownership legislature at the time of the Islamic revolution of Iran necessitated the creation of a fully Iranian owned company.

In fact, taking into consideration all major projects successfully undertaken by DBC and its predecessor Iran-NEDECO over the last four decades, almost everywhere along the approximately 2,700 kilometers coastlines of the Caspian Sea, Persian Gulf and Oman Sea, DBC is seen to be the most experienced marine consultancy establishment inside Iran.

Notably, Mr. Banijamali as the first Iranian member (Sole Member for the period of 1988 to 2000) of the PIANC for the last 25 years and a former Iranian Director of the South Eastern Drilling Company (SEDCO), has been the port-planner of most of Iran's major commercial, fishing, petrochemical and some other special types of ports. In addition, he had an active role in the Masterplan studies for the Iranian Commercial and Fishing ports, the former having been done by F.R. Harris and its Iranian partner. Later on, as the Managing Director of Iran-NEDECO, the Iranian partners of the Dutch consultancy group, he functioned for 14 years as the Iranian director for the new Bandar-Abbas port expansion project, the biggest port project ever performed in Iran.

Of the past international partners of DBC, in addition to the names mentioned above, INTECSA of Spain, ISAMCO & SEPASS of Switzerland and SECMAFER of France can be mentioned.

Under Mr. Banijamali's leadership as the pioneer of port and coastal engineering in Iran, DBC, originally active mainly in providing marine engineering services, as the English translation of the company name into Sea-Port indicates, has not only evolved to include other divisions in branches such as River Engineering, Water Resources, Roads, Rail-Roads & Bridges, but also many successful joint-ventures with prominent international engineering consultancy companies have been accomplished in the last quarter of century. Indeed, as strict adherence to professional ethics such as advocated by FIDIC has formed the moral bedrock of our corporation, DBC with its full respect for all international values and its multi-lingual employees has been the partner of choice for many overseas companies involved in Iran. It also deserves mention that DBC is an active member of the Iranian Society of Consulting Engineers which has a national membership arrangement with FIDIC.