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The Gwadar Port (Urdu: گوادر بندرگاہ [ˈɡwaːdəɾ ˈbəndəɾɡaː]) is situated on the Arabian Sea at Gwadar in Balochistan province of Pakistan and is under the administrative control of the Maritime Secretary of Pakistan and operational control of the China Overseas Port Holding Company. [2]
The Gwadar–Kashgar Crude Oil Pipeline is a planned initiative intending to build a crude oil pipeline connecting Gwadar, Pakistan to Kashgar, China.The project has approximated an investment of a substantial amount, around $10 billion, for the pipeline's construction.
On 18 February 2013, Pakistan awarded a contract for the construction and operation of Gwadar Port to a Chinese state-owned enterprise.As per details of the contract, the port would remain as property of Pakistan, but would be operated by the state-run Chinese firm – China Overseas Port Holding Company (COPHC). [10]
China and Pakistan already conduct trade via the Karakoram Highway. The CPEC projects involve reconstruction and upgrades to National Highway 35 (N-35), which forms the Pakistani section of the Karakoram Highway (KKH). The KKH spans the 887 kilometers between the China-Pakistan border and the town of Burhan, near Hasan Abdal.
All the Chinese nationals working at the port in Baluchistan province were safe, the officials said. Pakistan repulses attack near Chinese-funded port in southwest, killing 8 insurgents, officials say
Trade between China and Pakistan hit a 12-month figure of $12 billion for the first time in 2012. [114] 2013 – On 5 July 2013, Pakistan and China approved the Pak-China Economic Corridor which will link Pakistan's Gwadar Port on the Arabian Sea and Kashgar in Xinjiang in northwest China.
Faisalabad Dry Port (opened 1994) Pak-China Sust Dry Port (36°41'29"N 74°49'31"E) NLC Dry Port at Thokar Niaz Beg, southwest of Lahore (31°27'53"N 74°13'54"E) NLC Dry Port at Quetta (30°13'51"N 67°00'28"E) QICT Dry port at Prem Nagar railway station, southwest of Lahore (opened 2010) Sialkot International Container Terminal (32°29'12"N ...
The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor is an under-construction development program to connect Gwadar Port in southern Pakistan to China's northwestern autonomous region of Xinjiang via highways, railways [43] and pipelines to transport oil and gas.