Gwadar port
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Gwadar port is located at Gwadar city at the entrance of the Persian Gulf on Arabian Sea and about 460 km west of Karachi in Balochistan, Pakistan.
Gwadar port, is a deep-sea warm water port, being constructed in two phases with heavy investment from China. Gwadar has had immense geostrategic significance on many accounts. In 1993, Pakistan started technical and financial feasibilities for the development of Gwadar port. The Gwadar port project started on 22 March 2002. The first phase was completed in December 2005.
Gawadar port was inaugurated on March 19, 2007 after the completion of second development phase. Gawadar port is Pakistan's first deep port that has the capacity to serve virtually all sorts of cargo ships of any size.
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- Government of Pakistan, Board of Investment, Gwadar
- China's pearl in Pakistan's waters by Sudha Ramachandran, Asia Times Online, 4 March 2005
- Baluchis, Beijing, and Pakistan’s Gwadar Port (PDF) by Ziad Haider, Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, Winter/Spring 2005
- Gwadar: China's Naval Outpost on the Indian Ocean, by Tarique Niazi, Jamestown Foundation, 16 February 2005
- Pakistan’s Gwadar Port – Prospects of Economic Revival (PDF), by Ammad Hassan, Naval Postgraduate School, June 2005
