Tag: Port

KARACHI - The country's first dedicated Fertilizer and Grain Terminal (FGT) at the Port Qasim was locked down for an indefinite period on Wednesday, after dozens of workers were injured in a violent mob attack the previous day.
Cargo handling at the state-of-the-art terminal was suspended as hundreds of 'employees of stevedoring companies' entered the terminal premises and started beating up the on-duty labourers while trying to ransack cargo-handling equipment at the facility.

KARACHI - Dozens of dock workers were reportedly injured after an angry mob attacked the Grain and Fertiliser Terminal (GFT), Port Qasim on Tuesday afternoon and the Rangers opened fire and used teargas shells to disperse the enraged protesters. Cargo handling at the country's first grain and fertiliser-dedicated terminal was suspended as hundreds of 'employees of stevedoring companies' entered the terminal premises and started beating up the labourers while trying to ransack

DASKA - A social security dispensary would be set up for the staff of Sambrial Dry Port, said Noor-ul-Haq, the employees union president, addressing a meeting.
He said all-out efforts were being made to solve the problems of the dry port workers with the cooperation of the management. General Secretary Baber Saeed also spoke on this occasion.
Saqib Cheema, Farooq Anwar, Mustansar Yousaf, Mian Riaz, Tariq Jatt, Nadeem Malik and Sheikh Imran were among those present there.

KARACHI - The intermittent protest by hundreds of dock workers at Port Qasim is feared to result in a serious blow to the country's exports which the economic managers expect would fetch over $22 billion this year, thus helping Pakistan balance its external accounts.
The analysts believe that after achieving a $26 million current account surplus during July-December 2010-11, the terrorism and floods-hit Pakistan is expected to see its external accounts widening by $4 billion or

LAHORE - Shaikhupura Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) threw its full weight behind the Lahore Chamber of Commerce's initiative to build a large, efficient and modern Dry Port at Chichukimalian in Shaikhupura district.
According to press release, a consensus to this effect was reached at a meeting held here at the Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry. LCCI President Shahzad Ali Malik, SCCI President Tariq Iqbal Mughal, LCCI Senior Vice President Sheikh Mohammad Arshad,

KARACHI - Karachi Port Trust (KPT) has pushed forward with the internal development of port facilities and has diverted resources to rehabilitate existing general cargo berths in the East Wharf. Simultaneously, it has invested heavily in the Deep Water Container port project, thus bearing the expenditure of building up both facilities.
This act of the KPT management is questionable, given that considerable resources are being committed to the internal development of the port

LAHORE - The Pakistan railways inaugurated a dry port on Friday and announced that it was a 'good omen' that a 60-container-train had reached the dry port of Prem Nagar because this was the first private sector container-train.
The PR in with collaboration with two private companies has made a landmark by creating the dry port of Prem Nagar, said PR Chairman Shahid Hussain Raja. He made these statements after the inauguration of the dry port. He said that there were few railways

KARACHI - The recently inaugurated advanced grain and storage terminal at Port Qasim is operating at almost half of its cargo and ship handling capacity due to insufficient dredging and therefore inadequate draft constraints at the 45-kilometer long navigational channel of the country's second largest seaport.
A joint venture completed on a Built-Operate-Transfer basis, the Fauji Akbar Portia Terminals Limited (FAP) at Port Qasim was constructed at a cost of $135 million and is

MELBOURNE - My trip to Australia continues. I arrived in Melbourne last weekend. Everyone I spoke to said that Melbourne had more of a laidback air to it than Sydney. It almost sounded in the same vein one hears every so often in comparisons between Lahore and Karachi.
Melbourne has a lot to offer in terms of arts, culture and history. The Yarra River lazily makes its way across, neatly dividing the more residential sectors from the hub of business at city centre. Instead of the

I am very fortunate to have gotten the opportunity to travel to Australia for a few weeks starting last week, to see the Medibank International tennis tournament at Sydney, and then the Australian Open in Melbourne starting next week. As this is my first time in Australia.
I thought I would add a bit of tourist flavour to the my dispatches from here. Having arrived in Sydney Monday afternoon after an energy sapping 17-hour journey from Lahore via Bangkok, I was incapable of doing

KARACHI: Karachi Port is currently facing massive congestion as international shipping has diverted to the country's largest seaport from Port Qasim where a weeklong standoff between the dock workers and port authorities has slowed operations at the port to a snail's pace.
Diversion of ships to Karachi Port has left many berths at Port Qasim, the country's second largest seaport, vacant. A cursory glance at shipping intelligence reports of the two port operators, Karachi Port

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Wednesday barred the Port of Singapore Authority (PSA) from transferring immovable assets of the Gwadar Port Authority (GPA) until a final decision of the case.
The court also named the Balochistan government party to the case and issued notices to all other parties concerned. The bench consisting of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Ghulam Rabbani and Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday was conducting a suo motu hearing on the

KARACHI: Procter and Gamble Pakistan inaugurated its state of the art Ariel plant at Port Qasim earlier today. The plant will manufacture P&G's premium detergent brand, Ariel in Pakistan by combining breakthrough technology with world class innovation.
The opening ceremony was held in the presence of Acting Governor Sindh Nisar Ahmad Khuhro.
The ceremony was also attended by global and regional P&G executives including P&G Global Operations Vice Chairman Werner Geissler,

KARACHI: Despite the technological development in local ports and shipping industry, laws regarding seaborne trade in the country seem to have been outdated.
Consequently, a majority of the prevailing disputes endangering seaborne trade in Pakistan have failed to achieve an amicable solution. The stakeholders and analysts believe that there is a pressing need to update, through amendment, the relevant rules and regulations, the absence of which is posing an incipient threat to

ISLAMABAD: Balochistan Chief Minister Aslam Raisani on Tuesday pledged to challenge in courts what he said was a "one-sided" deal with a Singapore company to run the strategic Gwadar Port.
Authorities dismissed any notion that the port would be given in Chinese control because of its substantial investment. But analysts suspect China would push for a major say over the port to back its bid to expand its influence in the Indian Ocean.
Pakistan, struggling to revive its

KARACHI: In a bid to resolve the ongoing dispute between Sindh and Punjab over five major potential port services, an inter provincial meeting has been called in the federal capital today (Monday), likely to be chaired by Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani.
Pakistan Today has learnt that both provinces seemed reluctant to compromise on their stance, which was delaying the implementation of the reformed general sales tax (RGST), a condition set by the International Monetary Fund

KARACHI: The Supreme Court has taken suo motu action against the Port of Singapore Authority (PSA), the operator of Gwadar Port, for its failure to develop the port and asked the authorities concerned to appear on November 2.
The apex court took note of an article published in a section of the press on the PSA's poor performance despite the incentives given to the operator by the Pakistan government.
The court issued a notice to the ports and shipping secretary, the Gwadar