General
NLC is spearheading the drive to establish Dry Ports in Pakistan. It exclusively operates the Karachi and Hyderabad Dry Ports. In addition, NLC has established modern Container Freight Stations at Lahore and Amangarh (Nowshera). It has additional detachments at Sialkot, Multan, Faisalabad, Rawalpindi and Peshawar to meet the requirements of the business community. NLC also handles international freight transiting Pakistani ports and offers warehousing facilities to United Nations World Food Program, UNHCR, UNICEF and other donor agencies. NLC is also employed by the government to monitor and moderate Afghan Trade.

Warehousing
NLC owns both covered and open warehouses throughout the country. It offers covered accommodation of over 50,000 sq m and open warehousing facility of 0.5 million sq m for containerized cargo at Quetta and Amangarh (Nowshera). NLC is now launching a program of building additional ware housing capacity in the Rice Belt in Pakistan, especially in Gujranwala, Mured-ke and Shahdara  .

Custom Clearance and Handling Facility
In order to provide one window operation to its customers, NLC is providing efficient custom clearance and handling services as per International Standards, with the assistance of Central Board of Revenue. This enables NLC to efficiently handle export cargo.

Scanners
NLC is installing container scanners all across the country on behalf of Central Board of Revenue (CBR).  In the first phase 6 scanners are being installed. Subsequently the Scanners at Lahore, Sialkot and Faisalabad will also be installed. This will facilitate the customers to conduct their business free of encumbrances of the post 9/11 security paradigm. These scanners are already functional at Port Qasim, Karachi and Lahore.

Modern Border Terminals
The government has decided to establish four modern border terminals on routes entering Pakistan. In order to promote trade through land routes, the border terminals will be fully automated with in-house scanners and online data management. NLC has been tasked to build these state of the art Border terminals at Wagah, Torkham/Jamrod, Chaman and Taftan. NLC has therefore acquired land in these locations to develop these terminals and provide ware housing and display centres. Thus, the Pakistani exporters will be able to display their goods closer to the zero point and will be able to strike deals with importers on the spot.
The establishment of such terminals would also meet one of the major requirements of trade facilitation in the region and promote land route trade among the countries of the region.