General
In the last 29 years NLC has successfully accomplished safe transportation and speedy delivery of essential commodities throughout the country. NLC introduced the concept of containerization, which has changed the transportation industry in Pakistan forever. NLC Transport operations are conducted in a manner to ensure effective command and control through a state of the art 'Fleet Management System', real time  monitoring of consignments through the most modern ' Tracking System' and a web enabled facility for customers' participation in tracking their consignments. NLC has initiated an ambitious program of establishing staging facilities on all the North South communication corridors of the country.  Now NLC is one of the biggest Public Sector Transportation organizations in the world.
NLC is also frequently employed by the government to handle emergencies in the national logistic cycle. Commodity shortages, natural calamities or transporters' strikes often put strain on the country's logistic system. NLC is then called into restore normalcy through professional handling of the crisis situations.

The transportation operations consist of:-

Dry Cargo Operations
NLC specializes in transportation of containerized cargo and has the ability to deliver it cis or trans-frontier. It also handles commodities such as fertilizers, wheat, rice, cotton and sugar from ports and production sites to consumption centers all over Pakistan.

Liquid Cargo Operations
NLC is a major oil carrier for OGDC, BP and MOL. It lifts over 50% of the nation's crude oil production from the far flung oil fields where the private bowzers dare not venture. The crude oil is transported by NLC from oil fields to refineries at Karachi and Rawalpindi. NLC employs special carriers to transport liquid chemicals and other products.

Car Carriers
NLC has imported EURO 3 Prime Movers which are the first of their kind in Pakistan and meet all the international regulations of fitness. This has enabled NLC to deliver freight in any country in the world. (Sadly, none of the Pakistani trucks at present, come up to these standards and are not allowed in other countries where environmental controls and TIR conventions apply). NLC has introduced new hydraulically operated car carriers, which have the capacity of transporting 10 cars. The car carriers employed to move vehicles across Pakistan are now being fabricated in NLC Mechanical Complexes.

Fleet Monitoring System
NLC is Pakistan's only road transportation organization to install fully computerized vehicle's monitoring system. The system facilitates in the identification of the location of cargo being transported, and in forecasting its arrival at destination.  The system is being extended to enable customers to trace their cargo when transported by NLC.

Water Services
Provision of pure water in Karachi is one of the major problems of the metropolitan city. NLC has dedicated its bowzers for delivering pure water in Karachi and supplies over 3 million liters of water on a daily basis.