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Making presence felt: Chinese group to set up exhibition centre at Gwadar

By Peer Muhammad
Published: May 27, 2014


ISLAMABAD: The Chinese Guangdong Logistic Industry Association will establish a huge display and exhibition centre at Gwadar port with capacity of displaying more than 50,000 varieties of Chinese products at a time.

This was agreed by a six-member delegation of the Guangdong Logistic Industry Association, who visited the port along with the chief executive officer (CEO) of the Chinese Overseas Ports Holding Company, Pakistan to examine the port for establishing one of the largest exhibition centres of Chinese goods.

A senior official of the Gwadar port told The Express Tribune that the delegation led by the general secretary of the Guangdong Logistic Industry Association visited Gwadar Port from May 22 to 24 and met port officials and businessmen at Gwadar. The Chinese industrialists agreed to establish one of the largest exhibition centres in Pakistan over a land piece of 25-acre. The capacity of the exhibition and display centre will be for more than 50,000 different Chinese products, said the official.

According to the official, after establishing this display centre, there will not be a need for Pakistani businessmen to visit China for import and export purposes, rather they will be able put their orders to the representatives of hundreds of Chinese companies available at the display centre.

The official said that soon formal agreements will be signed between Pakistani authorities and Guangdong Logistic Industry Association, where Pakistan will provide land in the port and the association will establish the exhibition centre and make the investment. The official was hopeful that more such business delegations will huge investment to the port.

Gwadar Port Authority Chairman Dostain Khan Jamaldini said that development work on the port has started, and all efforts are being made to make it operational at the earliest possible time as Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has given it highest priority. He said that the Chinese company responsible for operation of the port had also submitted a business and marketing plan a few ago, which is under review.

The next step would involve acquiring funds from the Chinese government and inviting private Chinese investors to inject money into various businesses in the free trade zone of the port.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 27th, 2014.

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Making presence felt: Chinese group to set up exhibition centre at Gwadar – The Express Tribune

 

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[Muhammad Omar]

Electricity from garbage nice nice

 

[Al Bhatti]

July 8, 2014

Billions spent investing in the UAE’s future
National Editorial


For a relatively small country, the UAE’s 20 ports might seem excessive. So too might the Emirates’ leading role in constructing more than half of the proposed 2,177km GCC rail network, or the widening of 328km of the E11 highway in the western region, or even Abu Dhabi’s Midfield Terminal, which will open in 2017 and be capable of handling 30 million passengers a year – two and a half times the capacity of the current airport.

But the time to build infrastructure is before it is needed, providing the canvas upon which the skill, drive and ingenuity of the UAE’s entrepreneurs will be able to flourish unhindered. Many of these upgrades are part of the Dh360 billion the Abu Dhabi Government has allocated to capital projects in a five-year investment plan, using its oil revenues now to bolster the prospects for non-oil related businesses to thrive in the future, diversifying the economy.

The wisdom of this is apparent in the Khalifa Industrial Zone Abu Dhabi (Kizad), one of the country’s biggest recent infrastructure projects. Just 60 years earlier, the needs of Abu Dhabi’s port could be met by dhows pulling up onto the beach and unloading their cargo onto the sand. Even the early oil industry cars were brought ashore in this way.

But Abu Dhabi’s burgeoning development meant a port susceptible to the whims of tide and weather was insufficient, so Port Zayed was created on the eastern end of the Corniche. Designed for use by everything from dhows to cargo ships, it too quickly proved inadequate and so Kizad was conceived for a section of coastline near the border with Dubai.

This mega-port was not simply a bigger version of what had been before but is of a different kind, being flanked by an industrial zone designed to ease the path for entrepreneurs attracted by the UAE’s strategic location, ease of doing business and lack of taxes.

Kizad will further benefit if Gwadar Port in Pakistan becomes a more significant regional force. Gwadar is potentially a warm water gateway to major markets like China, although it currently lacks the infrastructure links to fully exploit that position.

Kizad’s location near Taweela power station – and the prospect of a state-of-the-art road and rail network at its door – makes for a compelling overall business case in which Abu Dhabi is investing in its own future and making it less reliant on an extractive economy.

Billions spent investing in the UAE’s future
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Once again UAE trying to show Pakistan how to run a county.

As being said above "But the time to build infrastructure is before it is needed", When will Pakistan wake up and work with this vision?

We have a saying in urdu bhains kay agay been bajana

 

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Japan interested in investing in Sino-Pak Economic corridor

 

[Khurram541]

this seems to be a good sign that foreign investors want to invest in Pakistan....

 

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Gawadar likely to be linked with Turkmanistan via rail and road link

 

[farhan_9909]

Global Chokepoints Infographic

Much of the oil is transported via the Strait of Hormuz and the Malacca Strait. This is not surprising because the world’s major oil producers are located near the Strait of Hormuz and the world’s largest market demanding oil (Asia) relies on the Malacca Strait.
The drop in percentages seen in the two years does not show a decreased production of oil, but rather thelimitations these straits have when it come to transporting oversized tankers. In other words some of these straits are too narrow to safely transport ultra large crude carriers (ULCCs).
Lastly, the percentages do not represent the total amount of oil transported. It represents the total amount of oil transported through chokepoints.

Hamza Salahuddin
Program Editor of the Maritime Security program at the Atlantic Council of Canada

 

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Gwadar Port will serve big ships for 50 years: CHEC

Shi Yingtao, Vice President China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) has said that Gwadar International Port will serve big ships for the next 50 years and will play a vital role in the regional trade and development.
Talking to Jang & The News at CHEC HQs in Beijing, the Vice President of CHEC which is doing major projects like Gwadar Port and Port Qasim in Pakistan stated that the Gwadar Port is being developed through Dredging and the 4,7 kms long channel has been dredged to 14 meter depth.
Gwadar Port is located at the apex of the Arabian Sea and at the mouth of the Persian Gulf, approximately 460 km west of Karachi.
Mr Yingtao stated that a 18.9 kms Eastbay Expressway will be built to help flow of goods from and to Gwadar Port which will also include a 4.3 kms bridge alongside the sea and it will be an engineering marvel. He told Jang and The News that the port is capable to load and unload biggest possible ships simultaneously.
The port berths length is over 700 meters and on requirement the berth length can be increased by two to three times.
The port is being built by CHEC in record time and Government of Pakistan has given the management control of Gwadar Port to China Overseas Ports Holding company.
Mr Yingtao said that terrorists attacked CHEC workers during the construction of Gwadar Port. He said that he wants to thank the local baloch people and Baloch doctors through Jang and The News for the timely and sincere help given to save the lives of CHEC workers attacked by the terrorists.
Mr Yingtao said that CHEC is working on 32 projects and it also includes the Port Qasim project.
In another session with Jang and The News in Beijing, the Chief Economist of Chinese National Development Commission Mr Zhang Anyuan stated that Gwadar Port will be developed as a leading regional port despite the worst intentions of enemies to block its development. Mr Zhang said that an airport will be built at Gwadar and also a refinery will be built at Gwadar. A fee zone and Export Processing Zone is also part of the Gwadar Port project.
Mr Zhang said that different vested interest groups were working against Chinese Pakistan Economic Corridor but it will be successfully built and economies of China and Pakistan will benefit from it.

Gwadar Port will serve big ships for 50 years: CHEC | PAKISTAN - geo.tv

 

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Like Donghai Bridge, China vows to build engineering marvel in Gwadar.

Mr Yingtao stated that a 18.9 kms Eastbay Expressway will be built to help flow of goods from and to Gwadar Port which will also include a 4.3 kms bridge alongside the sea and it will be an engineering marvel.. He alo said that, the port is capable to load and unload biggest possible ships simultaneously.

Paddi Zirr (West Bay) and Deymi Zirr (East Bay).

 

[ghoul]

I hope Pakistan has a strategy against potential Indian funded terrorist attacks there. A cantonment would be a good idea, if one's not there already. Also, I hope Gwadar would be as planned as Islamabad is. Are the land prices rising in Gwadar?

 

[dlclong]

Beautiful scenery, excellent geographical location, so nice
Gwadar-- the star of tomorrow

 

[Maaaz Khan]

once gawadar port start working it will be a ending point for dubai port.

 

[Muqeet Ahmed]

pc hotel karachi

 

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