About Unitec Trade Line

Our Story

Unitec Trade Line was founded in 2009 in Rawalpindi by a small team that saw a structural gap in Pakistan's trade and industrial services market: importers were forced to coordinate five separate vendors for a single shipment, while industrial buyers needing custom parts were caught between curb-shop machinists and EPC giants who would not quote sub-50-tonne work.

Our response was to build one company that could own both ends. The Trade Services desk handles end-to-end international trade. The Engineering Services shop floor handles the parts and structures that cannot be easily imported. Both run from the same Rawalpindi office, share leadership, and are routinely combined on jobs that need imported specialty steel machined into custom assemblies.

Fifteen years on, that integrated structure is the company's defining advantage. We are big enough to hold direct shipping-line contracts and operate certified welders and a 5-axis machining centre, and small enough that the founder still signs off the documentation dossier on every major project.

What Makes Unitec Different

Three things, repeatable across every engagement:

• Single accountability chain. Whether the job is a Karachi container, a Sialkot export shipment or a 240-piece machined batch, one named delivery manager owns it from inquiry to invoice. No vendor finger-pointing.
• Vertical integration. Trade and engineering under one company means the import desk knows what the shop floor can absorb, and the shop floor knows what the trade desk can source. Combined jobs - imported alloy machined into a custom assembly, then exported - have one quote and one schedule.
• Documentation discipline. Every consignment ships with a dossier - commercial documentation, customs receipts, inspection reports, NDT reports where applicable, certificates and signed POD. Audit-ready, retained for 7 years per Pakistan record-keeping requirements.

We are not the cheapest option in either market. We are the option you call when the cheapest option has already let you down.

Why We Operate Two Businesses Under One Brand

Trade and engineering look like unrelated services from a marketing perspective, but on the ground they are inseparable for many Pakistani buyers. A factory needing an imported pump impeller often discovers the OEM has a 14-week lead time - reverse-engineering and machining a replacement on-site beats the wait. A solar installer importing PV modules needs custom-fabricated mounting structures designed to local wind loads. An industrial-scale food processor importing a packaging line needs the structural mezzanine and platforms fabricated to receive it.

Splitting trade and engineering into separate companies would force the client to manage the handoff. Keeping them under one brand means the same team owns both ends. We treat trade as the primary public-facing business and engineering as the integrated capability that backs it up.

If you only need one half - just trade, or just engineering - that is fine and common. If you need both, you will not find another Rawalpindi-based partner who can deliver them as a single accountable engagement.

Leadership

The day-to-day operation is run by a small leadership team with deep tenure in Pakistani trade and engineering - not a rotating roster of account managers.

• Founder & Managing Director - over two decades in Pakistani import-export, with prior posts in customs brokerage and freight forwarding. Personally signs off the documentation dossier on every major project.
• Trade Operations Lead - oversees the import-export desk, customs filing, freight booking and SBP / FBR liaison. The named contact for trade-services clients.
• Engineering Shop Manager - runs the CNC, fabrication and CAD bays. Welder qualified per AWS / ASME, owns the QC sign-off for every dispatch.
• QA / Compliance Lead - maintains the ISO 9001:2015-aligned QMS, inspection records, calibration register and welder qualification log.

Leadership profiles with photos and full bios available on request - and added to this page once they are professionally photographed.

Certifications, Memberships & Registrations

• FBR (Federal Board of Revenue) - NTN-registered, sales-tax registered where applicable, on the Active Taxpayer List.
• SBP-authorised dealer relationships - for EIF, Form-E and LC processing through major commercial banks.
• WeBOC user accounts - FBR-licensed customs filing access at Karachi, Port Qasim, Lahore, Sialkot and Islamabad Dry Port.
• Pakistan Single Window (PSW) - registered user for cross-agency NOC processing.
• ISO 9001:2015-aligned QMS - documented quality management system covering trade and engineering operations.
• AWS D1.1 / D1.6 and ASME Section IX - welders qualified to internationally recognised welding codes.
• Rawalpindi Chamber of Commerce & Industry - active member.
• IATA Dangerous Goods Regulations (DGR) - trained for Class 2–9 air shipments.

Where We Are

Our office and engineering shop are at A-732, Jinnah Road, Rawalpindi - 15 minutes from Islamabad's Blue Area, 20 minutes from Islamabad Dry Port, walking distance from the corporate branches of all major Pakistani commercial banks, and a short drive to the Hattar Special Economic Zone, the Taxila industrial belt and the federal procurement corridor in Islamabad.

Photos of the office, warehouse and engineering shop floor will be added to this page once professionally photographed. In the meantime, visitors are welcome to drop in during business hours, Mon–Sat 9 AM–6 PM.