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The 1,320 megawatt Port Qasim Power Project comprises two 660 megawatt supercritical coal power plants, one of which was inaugurated in December 2016 as part of the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor. [1] The $2.09 billion project is located on 330.7 acres at Port Qasim, 37 kilometers east of Karachi in Sindh Province.
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]
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.
For both Pakistan and China, the Gwadar port as part of the much-wide China Pakistan Economic Corridor offers a number of key benefits. For the Pakistani government, the Gwadar port is seen as having the potential of hedging against a potential Indian blockade of the port of Karachi , which currently handles 90% of Pakistani seaborne trade.
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
The Port of Sonmiani, in Las Bela District, currently consists of a fish harbour at the town of Damb, about 4 km (2.5 mi) northwest of Sonmiani as well as a coast guard jetty for the Pakistan Maritime Security Agency, a kilometre to the north of the fish harbour. In March 2007 the federal government announced a proposal to build a major new ...
2003 – Pakistan and China signed a $110 million contract for the construction of a housing project on Multan Road in Lahore. [106] 2006 – China and Pakistan sign a free trade agreement. 2007 – The Sino-Pakistani joint-ventured multirole fighter aircraft – the JF-17 Thunder (FC-1 Fierce Dragon) is formally rolled out.
M/s China Zhenhua Import and Export Co Ltd 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.