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Karachi port being developed to handle Central Asian cargo
KARACHI, Oct 8: Pakistan has launched a multimilliondollar plan to modernise the country's port facilities to cater to the growing demand for handling transit cargo from Central Asia, officials said yesterday, reports AFP.
Mirza Tahir. General Manager for engineering of Karachi Port Trust (KPT), said the plan had been Jointly launched by Communication Ministry, the World Bank and the private sector.
Five Central Asian republics
— Kyrgyzstan. Tajikistan. Kazakhstan. Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan — have asked Pakistan to provide port facilities for their Import and export goqds
Pakistan traditionally provides transit facilities to neighbouring Afghanistan and Iran.
Tahir said the project includes construction of new bridges, oil berths, container terminals and replacement of old dredgers. Work on most of these projects was already In
1 This southern coastal city ' has two facilities, the Karachi I port and Bin Qasim port.
' Karachi port handles rna
I Jprity of the cargo including
। petroleum products, while Bln
1 Qasim handles only dry cargo I including, wheat, rice and iron
ores.
KPT has constructed a
I cargo stacking plinth measur
। ing 10.000 square meters (107.600 square feet) and 5.000 square meters (53,800
square feet) covered cargo shed for the Central Asian states at the Karachi port.
The port has 28 general cargo berths and three oil piers, with a total cargo han dllng capacity of 22 million tons per annum.
The plan, expected to be completed by 1996. will In crease Its current 13 million tons liquid cargo handling ca pacify by another six to eight million tons to improve cargo movement and remove congestion at the main port.
It will also increase harbour depth, allow expeditious handling of containers. Improve |sirt operations and ensure salety. officials said.
For this purpose. KPT has purchased a modern bucket dredger from Germany and two split hopper barges are being fabricated by Karachi Shipyard and Engineering Works (KSEW).
Chinese construction com-, pany Yunnan Corporation Is a flyover