Gantry cranes working a container ship alongside a quay, with boxes stacked on the terminal.

Gateways and corridors

Karachi at the centre of the lane.

Import and export shipments are worked from Karachi. The corridors match the trade map: Tanzania, the UAE, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Italy, and the United States.

A cargo aircraft on the apron with its side door open and a high loader at the hold. — Air freight on the apron, the kind of uplift a Karachi air shipment is built around.

Pakistan gateways

Karachi Port

A working sea gateway for container and breakbulk cargo, used when the service and the cargo belong there.

Port Qasim

The other Karachi sea gateway. Containers are planned through Qasim when the line and the terminal call for it.

Jinnah International

The air-cargo airport in Karachi. Flights are discussed against chargeable weight and a real handover date.

Lahore, Faisalabad, Sialkot, and Islamabad–Rawalpindi feed Karachi. Pakistan is home, not a foreign corridor.

Corridors we will quote

Tanzania

East Africa on the trade map. Supply into Karachi, and Pakistani goods moving the other way, are quoted on this corridor.

UAE

A Gulf destination for rice, textiles, cement, and return cargo. The service is named on the quotation.

Oman

Gulf cargo quoted with the UAE and Saudi Arabia when the buyer needs that discharge.

Saudi Arabia

Gulf demand for Pakistani rice, textiles, and industrial cargo, planned from Karachi.

Italy

The European destination on the map. Ocean is the usual path. Air is used when the window is short.

United States

North America. Ocean with transhipment, or air, as the quotation states.