Tag: Terminal

Country’s first deepwater container terminal to be ready by April

Pakistan’s first deep-water container terminal at the Karachi Port has entered the final phase of infrastructure development to welcome mother vessels by mid-April this...

Inexplicable delays mar development of country’s first deepwater container terminal

South Asia Pakistan Terminal could more than double the country's entire handling capacity. Bureaucratic delays cost millions in lost opportunity on a project that has...

Byco opens 25-metre deep oil terminal in Balochistan

Byco has achieved yet another historic milestone by bringing the first ever oil tanker to its newly-established deep sea Single Point Mooring (SPM) facility...

FAP, Sindh govt ink $100m pact for grain storage

The country’s first dedicated bulk cargo terminal Fauji Akbar Portia Martine Terminals (FAP) would develop a strategic storage facility in this port city at...

KU students suffering

I would like to draw the attention of the concerned authorities towards the bad condition of Karachi University’s bus points and terminal. University of...

PICT joins hands with KSBL

The Karachi School for Business & Leadership (KSBL) is proud to announce its partnership with Pakistan International Container Terminal Ltd. (PICT), who has very...

Transporters revolt against shifting of terminal

Transporters revolting against the decision of the District Coordination Officer (DCO) for shifting Badami Bagh Bus Terminal to Thokar Niaz Beig Tuesday staged a...

Haj flight delays due to overcrowding: PIA

Thirteen airlines, including the PIA, operating from the Jeddah Haj Terminal on post-haj departures of pilgrims to various countries are facing six to eight...

Deep Water Terminal project to make country regional hub

As Asian Development Bank (ADB) is all set to make Indo-China corridor a reality, Pakistan should wake up and make Karachi a regional hub...

City’s lone bus terminal lacks basic facilities

The only bus terminal operating in the federal capital, called the Karachi Company bus terminal, has been in a dilapidated condition for a long...

CCP imposes Rs10m fine on Engro Vopak Terminal

The Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) on Friday imposed a penalty of Rs10 million on the Engro Vopak Terminal Limited (EVTL) for violating competition...

Modern bus terminal on the cards in Faisalabad

In a landmark decision, The Punjab government has unveiled a plan to give a new look to the GTS bus terminal located in the...

CCP issues show-cause notice to Engro Vopak Terminal Limited

ISLAMABAD - The Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP), on Monday, issued a show-cause notice to Engro Vopak Terminal Limited (EVTL), for alleged imposition of unfair trading conditions.
A statement of CCP said that a formal complaint was lodged by Lotte Pakistan PPTA Limited (LP) against EVTL. In its complaint, LP alleged that EVTL was abusing its dominant position by charging an exorbitant price for its handling and storage facilities.
The CCP conducted a comprehensive

Bomb attack kills up to six at Lower Dir bus terminal

KHAR - A suicide bomber struck a bus terminal in northwest Pakistan on Monday, killing up to six people in the sixth bomb attack in as many days to strike the nuclear-armed country, police said.
The bomb exploded in the small town of Jandol in the district of Lower Dir, 200 kilometres (125 miles) from the capital Islamabad. Pakistani troops fought a major offensive to expunge the Taliban from the area nearly two years ago.
"Six people have died," police official Islam Khan

Three guards beheaded at NATO terminal

PESHAWAR - Militants early Friday beheaded three security guards at a NATO truck terminal and damaged 10 oil tankers in a restive Pakistani tribal area bordering Afghanistan, officials said.
The murders took place at the NATO supply vehicle hub in Landi Kotal, a town in the restive Khyber tribal district where the bulk of supplies destined for foreign troops in Afghanistan pass through.
"Early Friday we found the beheaded bodies of three security guards from the NATO

FAP shuts down Port Qasim’s grain cargo terminal

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.

FAP shuts down $135 million grain terminal

KARACHI - The country's first state-of-the-art fertiliser, grain and storage terminal has been shut down for an indefinite period at Port Qasim. The dedicated Fertiliser and Grain Terminal (FGT) was recently developed on BOT basis by a joint investment venture comprising Fauji Akbar Portia (FAP), Fauji Foundation and National Bank of Pakistan at a cost of $135 million (Rs 10 billion) at Port Qasim and was inaugurated by Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani in October 2010.
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