National Logistics Cell

National Logistics Cells
Military logistics
Strategic Organization
Industry Containerization
freight system
Founded August 16, 1978
Founder 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 Mushtaq Ahmad Faisal, ASC, PA
(Director General)
Lt Gen Najib Ullah Khan, HI(M), Engrs, PA
(Officer-in-Charge)
Services Logistics & Freight Forwarding, Dry ports & Border Terminals , Engineering & Construction, Tolling, Express Freight Train, Polymers
Owner Government of Pakistan
Pakistan Armed Forces
Number of 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 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. Now NLC have a leading role in liquid transportation within country. NLC become a first choice of for oil producing companies of Pakistan.

It is currently being led by Major General, Mushtaq Ahmad Faisal, ASC.[1]

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