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  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 …

  Future shipping chain will be uncompleted sans Gwadar With the development of Gwadar Port as a fast track project, it has started catching eyes of the international seafarers due to its strategic location offering transitional shipping facilities in the region including entire landlocked for Central Asian States as well as responding to huge transitional movement between Pakistan and China, which is bound to generate huge economic activities for Pakistan. …

  The global trends in the shipping industry have drastically changed with containerized cargo shipments taking over the bulk cargos. From cost effectiveness of shipment to increased convenience coupled with the high level of security, the growth in containerized cargo at the Karachi Port has been substantial from 1,590,000 TEUs in the fiscal year 2013-14 to 1,720,000 TEUS in 2014-15. This is an 8.4 percent growth compared to bulk cargo …