Core Businesses : National Logistics Cell
   
 
 
   NLC CORE BUSINESSES

 
 

NLC Freight Services (Click for detail)

NLC Construction (Click for detail)

NLC Dry Ports & Border Terminals (Click for detail)

NLC Polymers (Click for detail)

Tolling (Click for detail)

NLC Mechanical Complexes (Click for detail)

 
 


 
 
  » NLC FREIGHT SERVICES  
 

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 culture 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 within the country 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.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  » NLC CONSTRUCTION  
 

General
NLC Construction is a well recognized and highly reputed name in the construction industry. Raised in 1978, it today has the capacity to undertake mega Civil Engineering Projects both within and outside the country. NLC Construction is keeping itself instep with the technological developments in the construction field. Having more than 600 pieces of plant and machinery and highest number of engineers to one project, NLC Construction is executing projects in the fields of infrastructure, cis work, pipe and cable laying and water works.

Human Resource
NLC Engineers is based on a sound human resource support program. It has been restructured to adopt cooperate culture and execute work with sound managerial control.
To augment the skills and experience of its engineers, an intimate interaction with international construction firms is being maintained. 

Capabilities

NLC Construction has exhibited its prowess in all fields of construction and civil engineering. Major achievements include:

 
 
   
 
   
 
Construction, rehabilitation and maintenance of Road and Runways from Dir to Karachi and from Wagah to Chaman.
Asphaltic pavements and bit mat roads.
   
  Construction of bridges including prestressed and post tension girder bridges.Shelters, storage tanks and silos.
     
  Construction of buildings, housing projects, sports and educational facilities.
     
 

Water supply and sewerage systems.

     
     
 
 

Overseas Wing
NLC Construction activities are no longer restricted within Pakistan. It is now also engaged in Qatar and Afghanistan. In Pakistan mega projects of mixed high-rise construction are being implemented with foreign partners. A number of other overseas projects are in the pipeline and will be announced on maturity.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  » NLC Dry Ports & Border Terminals  
 

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 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.

 
 
 
 
  » NLC Polymers  
     
 

To exercise economy in expenditure of tyres for uninterrupted movement of NLC fleet; NLC operates the NLC Polymers plant. This plant has the capacity of retreading 12,000 tyres per annum. In addition to meeting with the requirements of NLC, NLC Polymers also caters for the needs of major passenger bus companies in the country.

 


NLC is now also manufacturing rubber parts for Pakistan Railways and for the world renowned motor companies like Mercedes and Ford Motor etc. NLC Polymers have now also started plastic molding by acquiring state of the art injection molding machines.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  » Tolling  
 

The credit of introducing tolling culture in Pakistan goes to NLC. Entrusted with the task of collecting toll tax way back in 1999, NLC took a number of steps aimed at increasing revenue generation and providing facilities to the commuters on national highways.

Prior to 1999, toll tax on the national highways was being collected by National Highway Authority (NHA) through civilian contractors. The collection was alarmingly low and the toll plazas were in miserable conditions. Some of these toll plazas were running in loss as well.

 
In Feb 1999, the then Secretary Communication approached NLC to examine the feasibility of undertaking toll collection operations and maintenance of Lahore - Rawalpindi Section of N-5. Accordingly a feasibility concept paper was prepared and presented to Minister of Communication and NHA. The same was accepted by the Ministry of Communication who also obtained its approval from the then Prime Minister.

On 22 May 1999 the O&M Contract Agreement for ten (10) years (extendable up to 25 years) was concluded between NLC and NHA. Initially, NLC was assigned the tolling operations on Lahore - Rawalpindi Section of N 5, which was started in August 1999. Based on the satisfactory performance of NLC, the operations were extended upto Torkham.

Dedicated work done by NLC resulted in increasing the revenue generation of NHA manifold. Since the start of tolling operations in 1999 till Sep 09, NLC has collected over Rs. 15 billions as toll revenue for NHA.

 

 
As per National Highway Authority’s Annual Reports, NLC remains the highest Toll Collector for NHA.The professional and efficient handling of tolling operations by NLC has not only introduced a healthy competition in the tolling sector but the general public also now view paying toll tax as civic responsibility.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  » NLC Mechanical Complex  
     
 

NLC has its own technical support organization to keep the fleet on the go.

 


NLC's Mechanical Complex is capable of rebuilding engines, conducting major overhauls as well as fabricating trailers, dumpers, flat beds and fire tenders crash (FTCs).

 
 
 
 
     
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