Prime Minster’s Office

Board of Investment

Board of Investment
Prime Minster’s Office

LOGISTICS
in Pakistan
Prime Minster’s Office
Board of Investment

Board of Investment
Prime Minster’s Office

Tel: +92-51-922-4101 |Fax: +92-51-921-5554

Email: investpak@invest.gov.pk |Web: invest.gov.pk
Address: 06th Floor, Kohsar Block, Pak Secretariat, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan
 growing
PROJECT
demand

International Ports WHY PAKISTAN?

• Logistic policy encourages
infrastructure development
through PPP POTENTIAL AREAS
• Located at the crossroads of TO INVEST
Afghanistan, Central Asia, the
People's Republic of China, India, • Supply chain management
and Iran, huge potential to become
a hub for regional transport and Warehousing
trade Cold chain logistics
• 5th most populous nation with a • Transportation
population approaching 210 Air freight & Transportation
million Trucking
• More than 10 cities with over 2 International transport
million inhabitants by 2030 Urban transportation
• Expected rapid expansion to 1,000 Inter-urban transportation
billion pkm by 2030 Courier services
• Increase of projected demand for Ports & shipping
freight transport – doubled by
2025, six-fold to 600 B tkm by 2050 Full version of Sector Profile is
• Investment opportunities in the available on BOI's website:
China Pakistan Economic Corridors https://invest.gov.pk/index.php/sectors
Impact of CPEC (CPEC) - anticipated needs to
transport construction materials
and increased volume of goods
LOGISTICS SECTOR IN BRIEF • Introducing “web-based one
customs system” for easy custom
• Contributing 22.3% of the services sector GDP clearance
• More than $1.47 billion invested in transport and trade under the Central Asia Regional • Increasing demand of courier
Economic Cooperation (CAREC) Program (as of December 2017, CAREC Program) services due to growing presence
• Major ports, Port Karachi and Port Qasim, handling 95% international trade of ecommerce and online shopping
• 14 dry ports catering high value external trade
• Gwadar port to be built linking the industrial hub in Xinjiang province, China
• 139 airfields and 32 airports of which 6 are major international airports
Expecting
• Total railway network of 7,791km Rapid
• Approx. 200 freight stations operated by Pakistan Railways Expansion
• 16,436 freight wagon carried 5.36 million tons (2017)
• 94% of all pkm and 98% of freight tkm through National Highway Network
• Accounting for 206,404 million tons-km of goods per year by truck
• Nearly 400 billion passenger kilometers (pkm) per year
• Impact of CPEC – 1,100 km motorway, railway line between Karachi and Peshawar,
railway linked to China, gas pipeline, 9 SEZs to be built
• Major investors – FedEx, DHL, UPS, Leopards, APL, SKY NET, NIPPON EXPRESS, Careem etc