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Date Posted: 05-Oct-2009

Jane's Defence Weekly

Land issues delay Pakistan's new shipyards

Jon Grevatt Jane's Asia-Pacific Industry Reporter - Bangkok

The Pakistani government's bid to construct two additional naval and commercial shipyards has been delayed by issues related to land ownership.

A source familiar with developments told Jane's on 1 October that work has not yet started, although a consortium has been assigned to develop the yards, to be located at Port Gwadar, in Balochistan Province, and Port Qasim near Karachi in Sindh Province.

He said: "The implementation of the construction phase has been held up by procedural issues and the allocation of land. We are waiting for the government to decide what to do and to decide which specific land will be used for the project. Hopefully the issue will be sorted before the end of 2009."

The yards were initially scheduled to be constructed under a public-private partnership (PPP) and equipped with facilities to build both naval and commercial vessels from about 2013 or 2014. The delay means it is likely that they will not be operational until at least 2015.

Islamabad has previously stated that both shipyards will be located on about 500 acres of land and will have at least two dry docks able to handle ships that weigh up to 600,000 dwt.

On behalf of the government, the construction project is being overseen by Karachi Shipyard & Engineering Works (KSEW), which itself is undergoing extensive modernisation in order to be prepared for the licensed construction of three submarines for the Pakistan Navy.

Jane's reported on 1 October that Germany's Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft's Type 214 submarines had been selected by Pakistan and that a contract was close to being finalised. Under this deal the first submarine is expected to be delivered to the Pakistan Navy 64 months after the contract was signed, with the remainder to follow within 12 months.

The source said that modernisation of the KSEW facilities was almost complete and that upgraded technologies and equipment were currently being utilised in the construction of a Sword-class (F-22P) frigate. While KSEW is building the fourth of these frigates, the first three are being constructed by Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding in China.
 
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the baluchistan govt is the hinderence!
 
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Why Baluchistan govt. will stop. Central govt. must have right to do anything whether local govt say yes or no. Can anyone tell, whether it will be legal issue or something else.
 
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Normally the chain of command should be


federal>provincianal ....

I don't understand why Provincial issues rank higher in Pak geopolitics , clearly it reduces Pakistan's ability to develop

Secondly - I mean if Pakistan had implemented its water dam projects 10-20 years ago the current energy crisis would not be an issue.

I think perhaps Pakistan shold divide all provinces into 4-5 sub provinces , to remove this sense of trabalism that is growning in provinces, and focs on nation building.

In today's age when I hear some regions are not governed by courts rather by "Jirgas" or village counsils is kinda shocking and the balouchi provincial hinderance is an example

Because the politicians in those areas use that as basis to charge up the local masses, to give them vote. They can't bear the thought of general public becoming independent of them and starting to affiliate themselves with gov initiative

Hopefully the gawadar project will help some of the concerns of the other provinces. One thing is for sure the geological and development future of these ares is likely in next 20 year so there will be alot of positives in the area.

The only challenge they face is the problem of irrigation and water, which hopefully can be fixed by a water desalination project to ease the pressure on people, energy projects like that can only be possible if iran's gass will power the energy turbines for such mega projects.
 
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Is economy important then military, the reason why the Baluchistan is causing a hurdle because, the 500 acres of land owned the army, where these shipyards are going to be build will cause hurdles for the port gwadar. Some of the land from 500 acres was needed for fully functional of the port, but the army refused to give the land.

now we kno why they were refusing.
 
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the baluchistan govt is the hinderence!

They are our brothers, Central government should take them into confidence and make them realize and that these new shipyards would be beneficial for the growth of Pakistan's economy and I think central govt. should also come up with the mechanism that the benefits of these shipyard should also go to the locals; like by giving them jobs on these shipyards if they are not trained enough then government should train them and boost their skills after all they are Pakistanis and should also designate a permanent portion of income from these shipyards to the Baluchistan Government so that they it will help the Baluchistan in alleviating the poverty.
 
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