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Pakistan National Shipping Corporation
Annual Report 1998 
CONTENTS
MANAGEMENT, AUDITORS AND BANKERS
NOTICE FOR MEETING
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
AUDITORS' REPORT
BALANCE SHEET
PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT
CASH FLOW STATEMENT
NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS
PATTERN OF SHAREHOLDING
STATEMENT UNDER SECTION 237 OF THE COMPANIES ORDINANCE 1984
PAKISTAN CO-OPERATIVE SHIP STORES (PRIVATE) LTD.
(SUBSIDIARY COMPANY OF PAKISTAN NATIONAL SHIPPING CORPORATION)
CHAIRMAN & CHIEF EXECUTIVE REPORT
AUDITORS' REPORT
BALANCE SHEET
PROFIT & LOSS ACCOUNT
NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS
SHAREHOLDERS STATISTICS
MANAGEMENT,  AUDITORS
AND BANKERS
Board: Vice Admiral Abaid Ullah Khan
HI (M), SJ., S.Bt.
Chairman
Mr. Mohsin Manzoor
Vice Chairman/Director (Admin)
Mr. Fazal-ur-Rehman
Director (Finance)/(Commercial)
Maj. Gen. Mohsin Ahmed Vahidy
Director (Special Project & Planning)
Rear Admiral Azhar Hussain
S.I. (M),
Director (Ship Management)
Mr. Jahangir Siddiqui
Director
Mr. Muhammad Khusrow Khowaja
Director
Secretary: Mr. K. Daud Shams
Registered Office: PNSC Building, Moulvi Tamizuddin Khan Road,
Karachi-74000.
Auditors: A.F. Ferguson & Co.
Chartered Accountants
Taseer Hadi Khalid & Co.
Chartered Accountants
Bankers: National Bank of Pakistan
Habib Bank Limited
Muslim Commercial Bank Limited
United Bank Limited
Industrial Development Bank of Pakistan
NOTICE FOR MEETING
Notice is hereby given that the 20th Annual General Meeting of the shareholders of the Pakistan
National Shipping Corporation will be held at Navy Welfare Centre (Pakistan Navy Fleet Club)
near Lucky Star Hotel, Saddar, Karachi on Friday the 18th December, 1998 at 10.30 a.m. to
transact the following business:
1. To confirm the Minutes of the 19th Annual General Meeting of the Shareholders of PNSC
held on 24th December, 1997.
2. To consider and adopt the Balance Sheet, the Profit and Loss Account and the Reports of
Auditors and Directors for the year ended 30th June, 1998.
3. To appoint auditors for the year 1998-99 and to fix their remuneration.
4. To do any other business that may be placed before the meeting with permission of the Chairman.
By order of the Board
Sd/-
Dated: 12th November, 1998 K. DAUD SHAMS
Secretary
Note:
1. A Shareholder entitled to attend and vote at this meeting is also entitled to appoint his/her
proxy to attend the meeting.
2. Proxy must be received at the Registered Office of the Corporation not less than 48 hours
before the time for holding the meeting.
3. Shareholders are requested to notify any change in their address immediately.
4. The share transfer books of the Corporation will remain closed from 12th December to
18th December, 1998 (both days inclusive).
ANNUAL REPORT
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30TH JUNE, 1998
The Board of Directors of Pakistan National Shipping Corporation is pleased to present the
Twentieth Annual Report together with the Audited Accounts of the Corporation for the year
ended 30th June, 1998.
The year 1997-98 again was a difficult year for business, industry, trade and shipping. The
year witnessed a very unstable and adverse economic situation in the country. During the year
lack luster performance by the large scale manufacturing sector, reduced liquidity in the market
high mark-up rates and continued depreciation of Pak Rupee against major world currencies and
law and order situation in the country in general and Karachi in particular have contributed to
deep recession in the economy. The IMF conditionalities and extreme recession in the South
East Asian countries aggravated the situation further.
Scarcity of cargo has created cut throat competition among the operating lines in the
region. The freight rates have touched their lowest ebb. Too many ships chasing too little cargo.
The ageing fleet and continued depreciation of rupee have resulted in increased operational
cost and has affected our debt servicing. Lack of flexibility in the fleet has been the greatest
impediment in diversifying the Corporation's trade.
Despite the above unfavourable environments your Corporation has been able to achieve
an operating profit of Rs. 203.778 million and after tax profit of Rs. 101.811 million as against
those of Rs. 282.046 million and Rs. 71.599 million respectively in the corresponding period of
the previous year
BORROWINGS
The Corporation did not contract any fresh long term loan during the year under review. Of
the US$ 50.00 million loan obtained by the Corporation during the year 1995,96, from the
National Bank of Pakistan, Bahrain Branch, for the purchase of three container vessels, 5 half
yearly installments alongwith the accrued interests have so far been repaid and the outstanding
balance against this loan, as on 30th June, 1998 stood at US$ 25.00 million only.
COMMERCIAL OPERATIONS
During the year under review the Corporation performed a total of 467 voyages (including
foreign chartered vessels) and lifted 3.277 million freight tons of cargo as compared to 489 voy-
ages and 5.982 million freight tons respectively, in the corresponding period of the previous
year. The sharp decline in the cargo liftings is mainly attributed to the reduction in the bulk com-
modities. Due to the withdrawal of THE FIRST RIGHT OF REFUSAL by the Government, the
carriage of wheat and iron ore dropped from 3.776 million tons during 1996-97 to 0.894 million
tons in 1997-98 - a decrease of over 76 percent. Consequently the total freight revenue during
the year reduced to Rs. 4,597 million as against Rs. 7,761 million in the previous year - a decline
of about 41 percent.
The sector wise cargo liftings are as follows:
SECTOR 1997-98 1996-97
FRT/TONS FRT/TONS
DRY BULK 2.122 million 4.754 million
ASIA LINE 0.773" 0.694"
EUROPE LINE 0.266" 0.367"
AMERICA LINE 0.116" 0.167"
The break-up of DRY BULK cargo is as under:
CARGO 1997-98 1996-97
FRT/TONS FRT/TONS
WHEAT 0.297 million 2.433 million
IRON ORE 0.597" 1.343"
COAL 1.043" 0.793"
PHOSPHATE 0.161" 0.185"
OTHERS 0.024" --
During the year 11,230 TEUs of containers were lifted as against 14,030 TEUs in the pre-
vious year.
Since there was no Bulk Carrier in the PNSC fleet bulk cargo was handled through char-
tered vessels. The three container vessels acquired by PNSC remained deployed on time charter
outside Pakistan as they could not call Pakistani ports prior to resolving the custom duty issue
with the Government Now that the custom duty on ship has been resolved PNSC has recently
started a full container service between Pakistan and Singapore. The commercial performance of
this service will be reflected in the next Annual Report.
INSURANCE & CLAIMS
Due to improved performance of PNSC Fleet the Corporation could negotiate better terms
with the Underwriters for its insurance coverage. The Corporation obtained a 22.5 percent
reduction in the premium on Hull & Machinery Insurance Policy from M/s. National Insurance
Corporation of Pakistan. A reasonable reduction in the premium for P&I cover for the year
1998-99 from M/s. Steamship Mutual Underwriting Association, London was also achieved.
Effective operational controls were exercised to keep the incidence of cargo claims to its
minimum.
STORES & SUPPLIES
In order to remain cost effective major and costly items of stores were either imported
from abroad or purchased directly from the manufacturers.
Self catering scheme has been very effective and continued to accrue financial benefits to
the Corporation. The ship laundry expenses in the foreign ports have nearly been eliminated and
the alternative arrangement is working satisfactorily.
BUNKER AND SPARES
The average prices of bunker in the international market showed a decline of about six per-
cent. The actual consumption of bunker also dropped due to reduced number of voyages. But the
continued depreciation of Pakistan Rupee against major currencies proved to be the main imped-
iment in achieving proportionate reduction in the actual cost of bunker. However, to contain the
cost, maximum bunker was procured from the cheapest source.
All out efforts were made to keep the actual consumption of spares and supplies at its
barest minimum level and to purchase them from the cheapest source.
MAINTENANCE AND REPAIRS
Despite the constraint of the ageing fleet and the imposition of new rules and regulations
by the international monitoring agencies and the ever increasing demands for improving stan-
dards by the classification societies, strict vigilance were kept on the repair and' maintenance
expenses without jeopardizing the safety of ships and maintenance of reliable schedule.
Indigenous resources were put to full use for the repair and maintenance work. PNSC
Workshop undertook most of the burden of this task.
INTERNATIONAL SAFETY MANAGEMENT (ISM)
CODE CELL.
In order to keep abreast with the International Standard for the safe management and
operation of the ship and pollution prevention a Cell, namely, ISM Code Cell has been created.
The main functions of the Cell are to interpret and document the requirements of various con-
vention for its effective implementation and maintenance by the concerned departments of the
Corporation and to monitor their progress.
COMPUTERISATION
The computerisation process in PNSC was started in early seventies. In 1983, an in house
main frame computer ME 29 was installed and as workload increased in 1988 another computer
of IBM i.e. AS400 B 10 was added to the system. Both the computers gave satisfactory service
and completed their normal useful lives. Due to rapid progress in the field of computers they
were not fulfilling present day requirements and their breakdowns were frequent. Taking due
notice of this state, the Management decided to replace both the computers with modern and
state of the art technology. For this replacement an agreement has been signed between PNSC
and PICL (Pakistan International Computers Limited). After installation of this modern
computer system within the current year PNSC will enter into new era and will be able to devel-
op many other applications.
Nowadays the whole IT world is facing millennium bug i.e. Year 2000 problem. It is
informed with much pleasure that PNSC undertook this challenge and completed it using our in
house resources.
In order to cut the cost and achieve self-reliance, Personal Computer have been installed in
the Shares Department to maintain and update Corporation's Shareholders' Register and Share
Transfer records. These jobs previously were being performed by the computer division of the
Muslim Commercial Bank at a considerable cost.
CENTRAL DEPOSITORY COMPANY (CDC)
PNSC has entered into an agreement with the Central Depository Company for the mainte-
nance and transfer of its shares which will now be traded through them. PNSC Shares have
become eligible scrip into the Depository with effect from 28th October 1998 and our valued
Shareholders will benefit from it as it will reduce risk, cost and time.
PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
PNSC plans to acquire a second hand oil tanker of about 85,000 tons Deadweight during
the year 1998-99. The project envisages annual transportation of about 2.0 million tons of Crude
Oil imports for Karachi based refineries.
MANAGEMENT
Mr. Jahangir Siddiqui and Mr. Muhammad Khusrow Khowaja retired from the
Directorship of PNSC on the expiry of their tenure on 25-9-98 and were re-elected on 30-9-98
for another term of 3 years.
AUDITORS
The Auditors M/s. A.F. Ferguson & Co., Chartered Accountants and M/s. Taseer Hadi
Khalid & Co., Chartered Accountants retired and offered themselves for re-appointment.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The Board wishes to place on record its appreciation of the efforts and services rendered
by the officers and staff of the Corporation, both ashore and afloat.
The Directors also thank the agents, the bankers and the auditors for their cooperation and
support. Our gratitude is also due to the Director General Ports & Shipping Ministry of
Communications and the Govt. of Pakistan for their guidance and support.
VICE ADMIRAL ABAID ULLAH KHAN
Karachi: 12th November 1998 H.I(M). SJ. S.Bt
Chairman
FLEET AS ON JUNE 30, 1998
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S. No. Vessel Name Year of Dead G.R.T N.R.T
Built Weight
in Tons
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1. m.v. Lalazar 1985 13,346 10,246 4,664
2. m.v. Swat 1983 14,355 10,917 5,758
3. m.v. Shalamar 1983 14,170 10,544 5,643
4. m.v. Islamabad 1983 18,257 12,395 6,747
5. m.v. Khairpur 1981 16,414 13,402 7,693
6. m.v. Sibi 1981 16,436 13,402 7,693
7. my. Kaghan 1981 18,050 12,030 6,686
8. m.v. Ayubia 1981 18,050 12,030 6,686
9. m.v. Sargodha 1980 18,242 12,395 6,747
10. m.v. Malakand 1980 18,224 12,395 6,747
11. m.v. Multan 1980 18,257 12,395 6,747
12. m.v. Bolan 1980 18,144 12,395 6,747
13. m.v. Hyderabad 1980 18,257 12,395 6,747
14. m.v. Chitral 1980 18,144 12,395 6,747
15. m.v. Makran 1979 23,490 16,199 8,184
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TOTAL 261,836 185,535 100,236
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AUDITORS' REPORT TO THE MEMBERS
We have audited the annexed Balance Sheet of Pakistan National Shipping Corporation
as at June 30, 1998 and the related Profit and Loss Account and Cash Flow Statement, together
with the notes forming part thereof, for the year then ended and we state that we have obtained all
the information and explanations which to the best of our knowledge and belief were necessary
for the purposes of our audit and, after due verification thereof, we report that:
(a) in our opinion, proper books of account have been kept by the Corporation as
required by the Companies Ordinance, 1984;
(b) in our opinion:
(i) the Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss Account together with the notes thereon
have been drawn up in conformity with the Companies Ordinance, 1984 and are
in agreement with the books of account and are further in accordance with
accounting policies consistently applied;
(ii) the expenditure incurred during the year was for the purpose of the
Corporation's business; and
(iii) the business conducted, investments made and the expenditure incurred during
the year were in accordance with the objects of the Corporation;
(c) in our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanations
given to us, the Balance Sheet, Profit and Loss Account and Cash Flow Statement,
together with the notes forming part thereof, give the information required by the
Companies Ordinance, 1984 in the manner so required and respectively give a true
and fair view of the state of the Corporation's affairs as at June 30, 1998 and of the
profit and cash flows for the year then ended; and
(d) in our opinion no zakat was deductible at source under the Zakat and Ushr
Ordinance, 1980.
A.F. FERGUSON & CO. TASEER HADI KHALID & CO.
Chartered Accountants Chartered Accountants
Karachi: 13th November 1998
BALANCE SHEET AS AT JUNE 30, 1998
Note 1998 1997
           (Rupees '000)
SHARE CAPITAL AND RESERVES
Authorised Capital
200,000,000 ( 1997: 200,000,000)
ordinary shares of Rs. 10 each 2,000,000 2,000,000
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Issued, subscribed and paid-up capital 2 1,143,406 1,143,406
Capital reserves 3 126,843 126,843
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1,270,249 1,270,249
ACCUMULATED LOSS (353,077) (454,888)
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917,172 815,361
LONG-TERM LOAN 4 696,750 1,017,570
LONG-TERM LIABILITY -- 356
DEFERRED LIABILITY
Retirement gratuity 5 232,917 202,612
CURRENT LIABILITIES AND PROVISIONS
Current portion of:
-- long-term loan 4 464,500 407,028
-- long-term liability 406 1,619
Creditors, provisions and accruals 7 765,390 1,206,575
Unclaimed dividends 9,874 9,881
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1,240,170 1,625,103
CONTINGENCIES 8
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3,087,009 3,661,002
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FIXED ASSETS - TANGIBLE 9 2,046,037 2,081,523
LONG-TERM INVESTMENTS 10 4,711 4,682
LONG-TERM LOANS 11 44,435 54,629
CURRENT ASSETS
Stores and spares 12 137,804 142,077
Freight receivable 13 171,231 538,689
Agents' and owners' balances 14 119,513 80,880
Other debtors 15 85,199 117,362
Loans and advances 16 31,047 36,088
Deposits and prepayments 17 19,501 19,552
Incomplete voyages 18 70,191 73,498
Income taxes refundable 170,804 92,081
Insurance claims 19 60,273 41,620
Certificates of deposits with financial institutions 3,000 107,310
Cash and bank balances 20 123,263 271,011
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991,826 1,520,168
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3,087,009 3,661,002
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The annexed notes form an integral part of these accounts.
PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT
For the year ended June 30, 1998
Note 1998 1997
           (Rupees '000)
OPERATING REVENUES
Freight (Net) 2,467,793 2,786,567
Chartering revenues 21 2,129,422 4,974,951
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4,597,215 7,761,518
OPERATING EXPENSES
Fleet expenses - direct 22 4,084,987 7,205,804
- indirect 23 29,439 37,972
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4,114,426 7,243,776
Administration and general expenses 24 279,011 235,696
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4,393,437 7,479,472
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OPERATING PROFIT 203,778 282,046
INSURANCE CLAIMS 25 24,974 8,374
OTHER INCOME 26 127,385 159,698
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356,137 450,118
OTHER EXPENSES 27 230,747 263,109
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PROFIT BEFORE TAXATION 125,390 187,009
TAXATION 28 23,579 115,410
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PROFIT AFTER TAXATION 101,811 71,599
ACCUMULATED LOSS BROUGHT FORWARD (454,888) (526,487)
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