ISLAMABAD, Dec 17 (APP): Minister for Ports and Shipping Nabeel Gabol told the National Assembly on Wednesday that the Gwadar Port was fully functional and six ships carrying urea would dock at the port this month.
Responding to a question by Sheikh Salahuddin during the Question Hour he said that an amount of Rs 400 million [...]

QUETTA, Dec 18: Gwadar Port will become functional on Dec 21 with the arrival of a large ship carrying fertiliser.
Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani will attend the inauguration ceremony at the port.
Balochistan Chief Minister Aslam Raisani told Dawn on Thursday that the port would become fully functional and more cargo ships would anchor at [...]

KARACHI: The government is keen to make functional the Gwadar Port. In this regard government has formulated a plan to import wheat and fertilizers and export cement from Gwadar Port.
Gwadar Port would receive four ships carrying urea imported from Ukraine.
Trading Corporation of Pakistan is importing fertilizers from Ukraine.
The four ships carrying urea will reach Gwadar [...]

ISLAMABAD: Balochistan Chief Minister Nawab Aslam Raeesani has declared Gwadar deep sea port a tax free zone for the next 20 years under the Gwadar Master Plan. Talking to a private television channel on Sunday, the chief minister said the decision had been taken after a meeting with Federal Industries Minister Manzoor Wattoo. Raeesani said [...]

KARACHI (November 17 2008): The people’s government is committed to complete the Gwadar deep water port project making the strategic Mekran region the pearl trade and energy corridor for the entire region catering the bulk needs of the landlocked Central Asian countries.
The Minister of State for Ports and Shipping, Nabil Ahmed Gabol, said in a [...]

ISLAMABAD: Economic Monitoring Committee (EMC) here on Monday asked the Ministry of Ports and Shipping for better utilisation of the Gwadar Port for the transportation of imports and exports of the country.
The EMC, which met under the chairmanship of Mr Shaukat Tarin, Adviser to Prime Minister on Finance, while reviewing the cement exports situation directed [...]

ISLAMABAD: The government is planning to acquire 78 acres of land adjacent to the Gwadar Port for provision of ancillary port facilities, like container parks, banks stevedore and clearing services, offices, workshops, storage yards and others, sources in the ministry of Ports and Shipping told Daily Times here on Monday.
These facilities would help in swift [...]

ISLAMABAD, Oct 24 (APP): The National Highways Authority (NHA) will complete the linked road from Gwadar Port to Ratto Dero by the end of 2010, said a spokesman of Ministry of Ports and Shipping.
Talk to APP, here on Friday, the spokesman of the authority said that Gwadar Port is functioning very well and other development [...]

* Loan expected to ease burden on Finance Ministry for providing Rs 2 billion to PSO for oil terminal at Gwadar
* China to develop oil city in Gwadar, railway track to be laid to China
By Zafar Bhutta
ISLAMABAD: The World Bank (WB) is likely to provide Pakistan $2.25 billion to lay the infrastructure of a ‘trade [...]

Business Recorder reported that Mr Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani PM of Pakistan has constituted a committee under the chairmanship of Minister for Ports and Shipping Qamar Zaman Kaira to finalize the sites for building shipyards at Karachi and Gwadar.
The Prime Minister constituted the committee following a meeting to review the progress on the development of [...]

ISLAMABAD: Iranian Energy minister is due to visit Pakistan from October 15 to 17 and will participate in the launching ceremony of transmission line for import of 100MW power for Gawadar from Iran.
Ambassador of Iran to Pakistan, Masha allah Shakeri sated this on Friday in meeting with Federal Minister for Water and Power Raja Pervez [...]

ISLAMABAD, Sep 30 (APP): Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani while expressing government’s resolve for the development of shipbuilding industry in Pakistan said that the setting up of two shipyards in Karachi and Gwadar would go a long way in catering to domestic as well as international needs. The Prime Minister observed this while chairing [...]