By Hamid Waleed
LAHORE: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has officially notified the Freight Forwarders Licensing Rules, 2025, through SRO 1222(I)/2025, establishing Pakistan鈥檚 first comprehensive legal framework to regulate freight forwarding operations across sea, air, land, and rail logistics.
Director IOCO Imran Sajjad Bukhari has started implementation of the new rules. So far conditions for a licence is concerned, the licensing authority may on fulfilling all conditions under rule 1209, grant a non-transferable licence for a period initially for two years which shall be renewable after every two years subject to the condition that the licence shall not be transferable or sub-let and no licensee shall bring about a change in the composition of the company, proprietorship or firm.
In addition, change of status of firm from proprietorship to partnership to company shall be allowed on submission of partnership deed duly attested by notary public on successful passing of interview or test or both by the new proprie