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. In 1993, Pakistan started technical and financial feasibilities for the development of Gwadar port. The Gwadar port project started on 22 March 2002 and the Port of Singapore Authority was hired for its management.

The deep-sea Gwadar Port became operational in 2008 when a ship carrying 52000 tonnes of wheat from Canada anchored at the port. All arrangements are in place to offload the wheat to be transported across the country for domestic use.The ship arrived here with 72000 tonnes of wheat but before it was anchored, 20,000 tonnes wheat was off loaded from it and transported to Karachi.

[edit] See also

• Port of Karachi
• Port Qasim
• Keti Bandar
• List of seaports
• List of deep water ports

[edit] External links

• 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
• Ahmed Quraishi. "The Plan To Topple Pakistan Military", Chowk, November 29, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-11-29. 
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