Regional Office — Northern Pakistan

Lahore Export Logistics

Lahore is Punjab’s commercial centre and the planning desk for many exporters who never see the Karachi waterfront. Factories in and around the city ship textiles, leather, food products, and industrial goods that still need Karachi or Port Qasim for ocean carriage — or Lahore/Islamabad airports for air samples and urgent spares.

MTX’s Gulberg-III office focuses on inland execution: trucking timelines to port, dry-port and ICD handoffs, booking alignment with Karachi operations, and document packs that survive WeBOC and bank scrutiny. The failure mode we see most is optimistic road ETAs that ignore peak gate congestion at SAPT or PQA.

Air freight from northern Pakistan often leaves via Lahore or Islamabad with final export formalities still tied to Pakistan Single Window (PSW) / WeBOC data quality. Getting HS codes and commercial values right inland prevents expensive holds after the truck has already burned fuel to Karachi.

If you buy FOB Karachi but produce in Lahore, treat inland haulage and cut-off buffers as part of the freight product — not an afterthought. Our Lahore and Karachi teams work as one lane so origin charges and sailing windows stay consistent.

Buyers in the Gulf and Europe often quote delivery windows that assume Karachi is “next door” to Gulberg. It is not. Share cargo-ready dates honestly, lock carrier free time when imports reverse into Lahore warehouses, and keep one operations contact who sees both the truck GPS reality and the SI deadline. That is the service this office is built for.

For importers distributing into Punjab, Lahore is often the commercial control tower even when the box clears at Port Qasim. Plan D/O, duties, and trucking before free time thins out, and keep the same HS story from supplier invoice through WeBOC so inland warehouses are not waiting on an examination that started with a vague description.