Tag: Port

Turkish buses arrive at Karachi Port

Honouring the recent commitment made by Istanbul Mayor Dr Kadir Topbas to gift at least 100 busses to Punjab government’s Bus Rapid Transit (BRT)...

Auditors unveil irregularities in KPT affairs

Federal auditors have found what they observed “unjustifiable” irregularities in administrative and financial affairs of the Karachi Port Trust (KPT) while examining the port...

Largest container ship berths at Port Qasim

Port Qasim Authority (PQA) safely berthed the largest container ship that has ever visited the country’s second largest port. According to a statement issued...

Shipping activity at Port Qasim

Four ships carrying containers at QICT, furnace oil at FOTCO, palm oil at LCT and sun flower at FAP have arrived at Port Qasim,...

UK aid docks at city’s port

A ship laden with emergency aid provided by the UK government has arrived at the city’s port to help thousands of children, women, and...

Port Qasim Authority purchases bungalow for its liaison office

Port Qasim Authority has invited bids to purchase a bungalow of 2000 square yards for its liaison office despite being offered free space at...

Anti-Gaddafi fighters capture Sirte’s port

Anti-Gaddafi fighters overran Sirte’s port on Tuesday, scoring a strategic victory in their battle for control of the defeated Libyan leader’s birthplace, his loyalists’...

TCP ship carrying 35000MT urea arrives at Gawadar Port

A vessel, MV Hyderabad, carrying 35,000 metric tonnes of imported urea arrived at the Gawadar deep seaport on Monday. The shipment is part of...

Pakistan to develop Gwadar port further

Pakistan wants to further develop Gwadar port and will welcome Chinese role in the future, as it is the gateway to economies in the...

Gwadar Port’s potential

Gwadar Deep Sea Port: Gwadar was once a fishing village on the Arabian Sea coast in Balochistan province and some 72 kilometers from the...

UBL docks at Port Grand

UBL entered into a Grand Banking Alliance with Port Grand today, with the vision to touch the daily life of every Pakistani. UBL now...

Shipping activity at port in murky waters

Shipping activity at Karachi Port has come to a partial standstill due to, what sources have termed, ‘the pilotage crisis’ after a strike was...

‘PIER 39-inspired’ Port Grand inaugurated

Grand is a gift for the citizens of Karachi and it would serve as a catalyst for several other mega entertainment projects in...

Experience the grandeur of Port Grand as it opens today

Governor Sindh Dr Ishratul Ebad and Federal Ports and Shipping Minister Babar Khan Ghouri will jointly inaugurate the much-awaited Port Grand food and entertainment...

Hard to port

Much is made of Pakistan’s abundance of natural resource. But the transition of these resources into geo-strategically important ones has been a painfully slow...

China agrees to run Gwadar Port

As Pakistan, in a changed diplomatic environment following the US operation in Abbottabad, made the strategic decision of asking the Chinese government to take...

SBP’s expensive metals stolen from Karachi Port

KARACHI - The night of March 17 at Karachi Port saw, what the sources called, one of the "biggest" thefts of imported leftover cargo, belonging to the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP).
According to well-placed sources, the entire hierarchy of Karachi Port Trust (KPT) and the Ministry of Ports and Shipping was shaken on March 18, with news that at least two dumper trucks had entered and left East Wharf of the country's largest port after stealing precious metals worth millions of