Muhammadi Steamship Company Limited was one of the oldest locally owned shipping companies in Pakistan

Pakistan

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 until it was nationalised in the early 1970s.

History

The company was incorporated

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 on 12 May 1947. In 1949, it became the first Pakistani shipping line to be publicly listed on the Karachi Stock Exchange

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Muhammadi House on McLeod Road (now I. I. Chundrigar Road) was the headquarters of the company.

The company was nationalized by the Government of Pakistan

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 under then President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

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. It was later merged with other Pakistani nationalized shipping companies to create the Pakistan National Shipping Corporation

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Ships

Ship	Built	Tonnage	Builder	In Service	Fate	Notes
Al Murtaza Ali	1942	7235 GRT	West Coast Shipbuilders, Vancouver as 'Fort Norman'	1948 - 1954	Sold in 1954 to United Oriental Steamship Company, Karachi and renamed ANWARBAKSH
Husaini later Al Husaini	1943	7157 GRT	North Vancouver Ship Repairers Ltd., North Vancouver as 'Fort Clatsop'	1948 - 1968	Broken up at Karachi in November 1968	Renamed in 1949
Ahmadi later Al Ahmadi	1920	5186 GRT	Todd Dry Dock & Construction Company, Tacoma as 'Pallas'	1948 - 1954	Broken up at Karachi in 1954	Renamed in 1949
Al Hasan	1943	7165 GRT	North Vancouver Ship Repairers Ltd., North Vancouver as 'Fort St. Antoine'	1949 - 1964	Broken up at Karachi in February 1964
Colima later Al Chisti	1917	1306 GRT	Sodra Varfvets Nya A/B, Stockholm as 'Svealand'	1949 - 1954	Broken up at Karachi in 1954	Renamed in 1950
Al-Sayyada	1944	7165 GRT	Victoria Machinery Depot Company, Victoria B.C. as 'Hastings Park'	1952 - 1967	Broken up at Karachi in November 1967	First ship to dry dock at Karachi Shipyard Karachi Shipyard The Karachi Shipyard & Engineering Works Limited , is Situated at West Wharf in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.Karachi Shipyard is the oldest Heavy Engineering Works of Pakistan which is catering for its Ship Building, Ship Repairing, Submarine/Warship Construction and Heavy/General Engineering... .
Al Ahmadi	1940	5361 GRT	Lithgows Ltd., Port Glasgow as 'Risaldar'	1958 - 1966	Broken up at Karachi in June 1966
Al-Abbas	1967	6087 GRT	Karachi Shipyard	1967 - 1971	Sunk on 16 August 1971 in Operation Jackpot Operation Jackpot For the 1983–1986 South Carolina drug investigation see Operation Jackpot Operation Jackpot was the codename assigned to several different operations during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971. The original "Operation Jackpot" was the logistical and training operation set up under the Indian Army...  by the Mukti Bahini Mukti Bahini Mukti Bahini , also termed as the "Freedom Fighters" or FFs, collectively refers to the armed organizations who fought against the Pakistan Army during the Bangladesh Liberation War. It was dynamically formed by Bengali regulars and civilians after the proclamation of Bangladesh's independence on...  commandoes at Chittagong Chittagong Chittagong ) is a city in southeastern Bangladesh and the capital of an eponymous district and division. Built on the banks of the Karnaphuli River, the city is home to Bangladesh's busiest seaport and has a population of over 4.5 million, making it the second largest city in the country.A trading...	First merchant ship built at Karachi Shipyard.