Anchor Shipping & Trading (Pvt) Ltd was founded in 1972 as the successor organization to the local Pakistani operations of Anchor Line (UK). Anchor Line also handled the affairs of Italia Marittama S.p.A.(Formerly Lloyd Triestino ) (Italy) which merged their Karachi operations with Anchor Line in 1967. The company has a staff of about 30 employees in Karachi, and about 10 in our branch offices. We are focused on the Shipping Agency / Freight Forwarding business and are actively expanding into related transportation, shipping, logistics, supply chain management and buying/trading agency businesses. We are a member of the Pakistan Ship's Agents Association, Pakistan International Freight Forwarders Council and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Our Karachi offices are located in the Standard Chartered Bank (Main Branch) Annexe, in the heart of the commercial district, as we have been for 30 years. We also have Lahore, Faisalabad and Sialkot offices. We were the first Ship's Agent in Pakistan to be ISO9002 accredited.