KARACHI : Two ships arrived at the Port to load/ offload containers at QICT, diesel oil at FOTCO on May 11, 2013. Berth occupancy was maintained at 50% at the Port on Saturday where a total of seven ships namely M.V KPS-I Alican BEY-Powership, M.V Dong Hai Jun (Dredger), M.V Diana Bolten, M.V ...

KARACHI Four ships arrived at the Port to load/ offload chemical at M.W-I, rice at FAP, project cargo at M.W-4 and containers at QICT. Berth occupancy was maintained at 64pc at the Port on Saturday where a total of nine ships namely M.V KPS-I Alican BEY- Powership, M.V Faith EX (Kuksan-N), M.V ...

Pakistan has said that growing Pak-Sino ties should not be a matter of concern for any country adding that Gwadar Port is a bilateral matter.Addressing a weekly press briefing on Thursday, Foreign Office spokesperson said Aizaz Ahmed Chaudhry said Pakistan and China enjoy all weather relationship. ...

LAHORE – Khurram Manzoor’s superb ton helped Port Qasim register four-wicket triumph over Sui Northern Gas Pipeline Limited (SNGPL) in the President’s Cup One-day Tournament 2012-13 Group A match played here at the Gaddafi Stadium on Tuesday. Put into bat first, SNGPL posted ...

ISLAMABAD - Port Qasim reached the final of Inter Region/Departments U-19 Three-Day Tournament 2012-2013 after playing draw against Rawalpindi Region on the final day of the Triangular Stage Pool A match here at the Pindi Stadium on Sunday.Port Qasim will face ZTBL in the final being commenced from ...

ISLAMABAD - Port Qasim were on top against Bahawalpur as they scored 294 in 54.3 overs in a Group A fixture of the Inter-Regions/Departments U-19 Tournament at Pindi Stadium on Thursday.Haris Ali scored 82, Umair Ahmed (50) and Zainullah (47) also batted well. Noman Akram took 4 for 81 while Ali ...

LAHORE – PML-N President Muhammad Nawaz Sharif has said that the PPP and its allies are not sincere in restoring peace in Karachi as the coalition did not make any effort to de-weaponise the city.Talking to a delegation of Sindh politicians, led by former chief minister Liaqat Ali Jatoi in ...

KARACHI - No crew list permission or port clearance (PC) to be issued to fishing boats from June 15, 2012 to ensure that fishing boats should return by 30th June 2012 to observe the seasonal ban in the month of July 2012, this was stated by Abdul Ghani Jokhio Managing Director KFHA. While reviewing ...

JEDDAH  - The Saudi Defence Ministry allowed Iranian naval vessels to dock at one of its ports in the Red Sea earlier this month during a training mission, Saudi Arabia’s Defense Ministry spokesman said on Sunday.Tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran, longtime rivals for influence in ...

ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari has said that Pakistan and Tajikistan need to work closely on infrastructure, energy connectivity and trans-regional economic cooperation projects such as CASA-1000.This he said during his meeting with the Ambassador of the Republic of Tajikistan to Pakistan ...

LAHORE – Gwadar Shipping and Clearing Agents Association (GSCAA) have submitted their plea to the ministry of finance and TCP to reconsider the decision of the Economic Coordination Committee, to import urea via Karachi ports. GSCAA demanded government to reconsider its decision of giving the ...

TEHRAN - Iranian naval ships docked on Saturday in the Saudi port city of Jeddah on a mission to project the Islamic republic’s “power on the open seas,” the Fars news agency reported.The supply ship Kharg and Shaid Qandi, a destroyer, docked in the Red Sea port in line with ...

LAHORE – Punjab Industrial Estates (PIE) Chairman SM Tanveer has appreciated decision to establish a new dry port, on the basis of public-private partnership, at Prem Nagar near Raiwind.In a statement on Thursday, he said that the dry port will be beneficial not only for the Sundar Industrial ...

LAHORE The seven members of the chemical sector Thursday decided to become Trustees of Sheikhupura Dry Port Trust. The decision was made at a meeting between members of Chemical Sector and Co-Chairman Sheikhupura Dry Port Trust (SDPT) Shahzad Ali Malik here at the Lahore Chamber of Commerce and ...

MOSCOW (AFP) - Russia launched an urgent rescue mission on Thursday after one of its atomic-powered icebreakers developed a nuclear leak in the frozen seas of the Arctic and was forced to abandon its mission. The Rosatomflot nuclear fleet said in a statement that an "insignificant increase in ...

KARACHI - Fauji Akbar Portia Marine Terminal, a dry bulk cargo handling and storage terminal, located in the vicinity of Port Qasim Authority, is expected to shut down permanently due to facing heavy financial losses caused by the violent attacks of the unregistered dock labourers on its employees ...

LAHORE In a major initiative, the Lahore Chamber of Commerce & Industry Thursday inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Korea Railroad Corporation (KoRail) to act as a facilitator to establish a modern and functioning dry port in Sheikhupura. The LCCI President Shahzad Ali Malik signed ...

ABIDJAN/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union raised pressure on Saturday on Ivory Coast leader Laurent Gbagbo to step down, freezing assets of the West African countrys cocoa-exporting ports, its state oil firm and three banks. The latest move in international efforts to persuade Gbagbo to quit ...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Shanghai overtook Singapore as the world's busiest container port in 2010, helped by continuing growth in Chinese trade and the business generated by the World Expo it hosted last year, the city government said. Shanghai's port handled 29.05 million twenty-foot equivalent units ...

WHILE the entire India is pinning its hopes on the onions imported from Pakistan to rein in runaway prices, a consignment from Pakistan has been rotting at a Mumbai port, according to India Today. Nearly 180 tonne of onions is rotting at Navi Mumbais Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust as the consignment ...

KARACHI - Procter and Gamble Pakistan inaugurated its state-of-the-art Ariel Plant at Port Qasim earlier today. The Plant will manufacture P&Gs premium detergent brand, Ariel in Pakistan by combining breakthrough technology with world class innovation. The inauguration ceremony was held in the ...

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Balochistan Chief Minister Nawab Mohammad Aslam Raisani pledged on Tuesday to challenge in the courts what he said was a one-sided deal with a Singapore company to run a strategic harbour in Gwadar port. Authorities dismissed any notion that the port would be handed to Chinese ...

LAHORE (PPI) - The Nestle has decided to be present at Port Grand Project in a significant manner. Mr. Ian Donald, M.D. Nestle Pakistan and Mr. Pierre Schaufelberger, Vice President Nestle S.A. international visited the Port Grand Complex developed at the Karachi Harbor Port and expressed great ...

KARACHI - Pakistan Muslim League leader Marvi Memon on Sunday assured that she would table the issue of the victims of the Port Qasim in the parliaments. Addressing a public gathering here in Razzaqabad area, Malir, held by victims of Port Qasim, whom villages were demolished in which the port was ...

KARACHI - It is indeed true that in third world countries the ports have been traditionally managed and operated on 'gained experience basis without going through a proper management skills, and this could be best illustrated with the example of Karachi Port Trust (KPT) that lacks professional port ...

KARACHI - The port equipments at Gwadar port comprise of portal, gantry, rubber tyre gantry and mobile cranes including empty container stackers, flat bed trucks, forklifts etc. have been found in rusting condition. The Nation has learnt that the said equipments at Gwadar Port, having been handed ...

ISLAMABAD - President Pakistan Computers Association (PCA) Munawar Iqbal on Tuesday said deep-sea port in Gwadar has the potential to become the main trade hub for this era. This brilliantly planned project having radically distinctive economic and strategic importance can change the destiny of ...

LAHORE - National Assembly Standing Committee on Railways Chairman Sardar Ayaz Sadiq has assured to get approval for Sheikhupura Dry Port Trust under the auspices of the Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry. He gave the assurance while speaking at the Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry on ...

KARACHI - The Gwadar Port was handed over to Singapore Authority (PSA) on just 9 per cent Gross Revenue Sharing Formula, costing Pakistan a huge loss by the top notches of the previous regime. According to sources, handing over of the Port to PSA for 4o years through Concession Agreement was ...

KARACHI - Port of Singapore Authority pilot, whilst shifting MV Sheng Ming Hong 7, Port of Registry Panama Official No.38679 -PEXT, IMO No.8117122 from Berth No.1 to Berth No.3 at 1930 Hours on August 17, 2009, had a head-on-collision with the RO RO Jetty, The Nation learnt. It was learnt that the ...