Danish shipping company A.P. Moller Maersk (Maersk) on Wednesday inaugurated an integrated logistics park in Pakistan’s southeast port city of Karachi, with a total footprint of more than 1.3 million square feet across seven cities, according to a statement from the company. The park aims to connect and simplify supply chains for Pakistani importers, exporters, and traders.
The park, which has six purpose-built sheds, was established at Karachi’s Port Qasim, a deep-water seaport on the Arabian Sea’s coast, making Maersk the nation’s largest logistics and warehousing provider.
With a consolidation and fulfillment center, cold storage, and other features, the integrated logistics park would serve as a warehouse. This facility will also meet the storage needs of cargo coming from the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG), technology, automotive, and retail and lifestyle industries. Additionally, it will be the ideal location for a customer’s warehouse, allowing them to manage their import and export goods with the fewest possible connections to and from vessels.
“At Maersk, our purpose is to improve life for all by integrating the world,” said Hasan Faraz, Managing Director of Maersk Pakistan commented during the inauguration of the facility.
“With our state-of-the-art Integrated Logistics Park, we want to ensure that we play an important role in connecting and simplifying the supply chains for importers, exporters, and traders of Pakistan.”
Faraz continued by expressing his pleasure in this significant investment in Pakistan, which would act as a key component of the country’s logistical infrastructure.
It is also appropriate to acknowledge the consistent support given by our clients, with whom we were able to have constructive conversations that assisted us in developing a solution that adds value to their supply chains.
Pakistan has enormous potential for development, according to Jakob Linulf, the Danish Ambassador to Pakistan, who was also present at the facility’s opening ceremony.
“Despite the various current challenges, Maersk has played an important role as a trusted partner for Pakistan’s traders,” the statement quoted him as saying. “Maersk’s commitment to invest in a large facility such as the one inaugurated today in Port Qasim speaks volumes of the potential that is out there to be harnessed.”
The statement added that the logistics park would come equipped with modern warehouse management systems.
“With Maersk taking care of the movement of cargo – ocean transportation on one side and landside transportation on the other side of the warehouse – customers will experience lesser handovers of their cargo, leading to higher efficiencies, faster turnaround times, deeper visibility, and better control over the cargo movement,” the statement said. “All of this will result in better predictability of supply chains.”
