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Pakistan’s Ports: deep and efficient

Pakistan’s Ports- deep and efficient

Prior to the pandemic, Pakistan’s ports handled a total trade volume of approximately 110.69 million tons during 2019. In 2020, with COVID-19 slowing the global economy, the volume dropped to 92.85 million tons, thus a difference of about 17.84 million tons or about 16.12% on the volume of 2019. Almost the entirety of the aforementioned volumes were handled by Karachi Port and Port Qasim, both situated at Karachi. Both these …

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Ports & Shipping scenario

  Ports are considered universally gateway of the country and Pakistan is blessed due to its strategic position, for transit to Afghanistan and Central Asian land locked countries. The Merchant Marine plays a vital role in the economic and industrial development of a country. The founder of Pakistan realising the need of ship’s for newly created Pakistan pursued with Muslim and Parsi entrepreneurs to acquire ship’s under Pak flag firstly …

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