[1] QPMC was founded in 2006 by instruction of the Government of Qatar through an Emri decree to provide efficient port service at the gabbro berths, as well as developing them to increase their capacity and ability to manage larger quantities of raw materials imported to facilitate trade.
[2][3] Additionally, the Qatari government wanted to ensure domestic market supply of building materials, provide consistent reserves of primary materials, stabilize their prices (using the First in First Out (FIFO) method), secure the country's strategic stockpile, and ease the government's involvement in facilitating revitalization and building processes to encourage and support affordable conditions for the private sector to flourish and be competitive in the region.
Two of the organization's founding members Abd al-Rahman bin Umayr al-Nuaymi and Abdul Wahab al-Humaiqani are on the U.S. Department of Treasury’s sanctions list for their work as a major al-Qaeda financiers and representatives in the Arabian Peninsula through their transferring of millions of dollars in funding, and are Specially Designated Global Terrorists.
[18] One of QPMC's biggest customers is Ashghal, the Public Works Authority, through an agreement to supply it with over 90 million tons of gabbro and limestone for 5 years.
Additionally, the firm has faced a number of operational challenges in the aggregate supply chain, especially with regard to occupational hazards and harmful work-zone accidents that have occurred under its watch.