KARACHI: Pakistan’s logistics sector is fully prepared to capitalise opportunities under China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project. Khalid Awan, Chairman TCS Holdings at a session on logistics during CPEC sunnit and exhibition assured Chinese participants that country’s logistics industry was fully capable of meeting challenging opportunities offered by CPEC projects. He reiterated that TCS is Pakistan’s largest courier and logistics company that offers a large infrastructure of its own comprising sorting facilities, warehouse and an air hub at Lahore’s, Allama Iqbal International Airport. The hub is served by TCS’ own fleet of vehicles, trucks and aircraft and is integrated with state-of-the-art information and control system serving over 120 million customers a year. It reaches out to the grassroots of economy through its existing and newly developing E-commerce services which touch the lives of ordinary people and contributes to their productivity. Awan said that TCS systems are also integrated not only with national customs but soon would be connected with global customs authorities through newly introduced TIR system to which Pakistan has recently been admitted by the World Road Transport Organisation. He announced that as a TIR licensee, TCS would be utilising TIR procedures for connecting international trucking from Pakistan to Iran and Turkey. Published in Daily Times, April 26th 2018.