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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

ISLAMABAD - The government has scrapped the Mashal project and initiated a new effort for expeditious Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) imports through a deep sea off shore terminal. Sui Southern Gas Company Limited (SSGC) Managing Director Faiz Ullah Abbasi told reporters here the project was reinitiated according to the decision of the Economic Coordination Committee of the Cabinet (ECC). The new initiative has no link with the Mashal project. The off shore project will cost an estimated

MILAN - Flights out of Milan's Malpensa airport were suspended Monday and a terminal building evacuated after a man smashed his car into the terminal and was shot by a police officer after trying to stab him. Airport authorities quickly ruled out a terrorist attack.
"A Tunisian man... who was in a car with his wife and three children tried to smash into the terminal," a security source the airport told AFP. "He then got out of the car with a knife in his hand and threatened a

ISLAMABAD - LNG Floating Terminal, at Port Qasim, could start functioning if the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources assures uninterrupted supply of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), the Senate's Standing Committee on Ports and Shipping was told on Saturday. "We are ready and it is up to the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources to assure supply of LNG," Port Qasim Authority (PQA) Chairman Vice Admiral Muhammad Shafi told the committee.
Ministry of Ports and Shipping

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

KARACHI - The Karachi Port Trust (KPT) has dismissed the multimillion dollars bulk cargo terminal, terming the project as "unfeasible", Pakistan Today has learnt.
Some six year ago, the KPT board through Board Resolution Number 02 had approved the construction of a multipurpose Dry Bulk Cargo Handling Terminal (DBCHT) at East Wharf of the Karachi Port. The project, however, later became controversial when one of the bidders, Transworld Cargo Despatch Company (TCDC), challenged

KARACHI - Under the Government of Pakistan's (GOP) wheat export policy for 2011, the first vessel of the season "MV LAGONDA" docked at the Fauji Akbar Portia Marine Terminal (FAP) at Port Qasim to load about 27,000 metric tonnes of bulk wheat being exported through the private sector. The docking of the vessel is a landmark for the FAP Terminal as it marks the first occasion when a commodity is being exported from this facility which has its own dedicated jetty and steel silos with a

KARACHI - Pakistan's first fully automated dry bulk cargo terminal Fauji Akbar Portia Marine Terminals Limited (FAP) at PQA, has created a record by discharging 16,500 metric tonnes of canola oilseeds in a day, comfortably bettering the previous 1-day record of about 9,500 metric tons achieved at Karachi Port Trust (KPT).
MV Panagiotis D carrying about 55,000 tonnes of Canola docked at the 11.5 meters draft dedicated and purposed built jetty at FAP, and the cargo of oilseed was

PARIS: Around 2,000 people were evacuated from Paris Charles de Gaulle airport on Friday because of snow on the roof of a terminal that partly collapsed shortly after opening in 2004, an airport source said.
People remained calm during the evacuation of Terminal 2E, described as a precautionary measure taken because of around 60 centimetres (two feet) of accumulated snow on the roof.
Emergency workers were deployed to clear the roof, a task expected to last until around

KARACHI: Inauguration of the second terminal of Qasim International Containers Terminal (QICT) is planned for next month after a delay of over 800 days. This impediment has caused a loss of Rs 30 million to Port Qasim Authority; however the authority is ignorant of the fact and will not hold the QICT for accountability.
The agreement of the said terminal was signed on August 14, 2006 and completion was expected on August 14, 2008. However, it has been delayed by around 27

KARACHI
Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has directed the Trading Corporation of Pakistan to move its food and fertilisers cargoes to the new terminal set up at Port Qasim at a cost of Rs 10 billion.
The prime minister issued this directive to the TCP while inaugurating Pakistan's first fully-automated terminal, built to handle dry grains and fertiliser cargoes in bulk. He said the setting up of the country's most modern terminal in Karachi would promote economic growth,