National Logistics Cell
 | |
| Type |
Military logistics Strategic Organization |
|---|---|
| Industry |
Containerization freight system |
| Founded | August 16, 1978 |
| Founder(s) |
Pakistan Armed Forces Government of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto |
| Headquarters | Rawalpindi, Punjab Province, Pakistan |
| Number of locations | General Combantant Headquarters (GHQ) |
| Area served |
Worldwide nationwide |
| Key people |
MaGen Junaid Rehmat, PA (Officer-in-Charge) MGen Imtiaz Ahmad, PA (Director-General) |
| Owner(s) |
Government of Pakistan Pakistan Armed Forces |
| Employees |
8,000 (Military and civilians) |
| Parent | Ministry of Production |
The National Logistics Cell (reporting name: NLC), is a federal executive bureau of government of Pakistan and a state-owned strategic organization of State of Pakistan. The NLC served as a sole purpose of crises management and logistics emergence on a short notice for the Pakistan Government. The NLC provide state-emergency level management services to the government, and is one of leading crises management government authority in the country.
Overview
Visioned by Prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto to provide logistics management services, logistics protection and rapid development of projects concerning the large-scale atomic bomb project, the organization started its operations in Pakistan as early as 1977, taking active role in the developing and managing logistics and strategic aspects of the atomic bomb project. Finally, the NLC was constitutionally given commissioned as governmental bureau on 6 August 1978, and given more broader and independent task to reduce the congestion at Karachi Port, which had resulted in a waiting time of 50 days for the ships and was costing the Government $12.5 Million per annum in demurrage.
The crises was controlled when the NLC introduced the system of containerization in Pakistan, progressively elevated as the largest logistics and freight entity in South Asia. Its areas of operations are expanded globally, and has been actively developing road-linking infrastructure in Afghanistan as government representatives, and built intensive civilian infrastructure in Saudi Arabia and Qatar. The NLC is widely expanded and is well established logistics and strategic infrastructure in Pakistan as well. In recognition of its services, NLC has been awarded the Gold Mercury Award by the Government of Pakistan.
NLC also serves as the crisis management arm of the Pakistan Government in relation to logistics emergencies. In recognition of its services, NLC has been awarded the Gold Mercury Award by the Government of Pakistan.
It is currently being led by Major General Junaid Rehmat since June 2010.[1]
References
- ↑ "Major General Junaid Rehmat assumes office of DG NLC" NLC website, June 2010
External links
- National Logistics Cell - Corporate website of National Logistics Cell