Keti Bandar Port: Rs 10 million allocated for feasibility study

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Keti Bandar Port: Rs 10 million allocated for feasibility study
RECORDER REPORT
ISLAMABAD (June 05 2009): National Economic Council (NEC) has approved an allocation of Rs 10 million to conduct feasibility study for proposed Keti Bandar Port in Karachi. Sources revealed to the Business Recorder that Sindh province had requested NEC to allocate money for conducting the feasibility study of the Keti Bandar Port at Karachi.

The said project was not earlier tabled in the Annual Plan Co-ordination Committee (APCC) meeting held on May 22 at Planning Commission. According to sources, chief ministers of other provinces also supported the province to allocate the money for the feasibility study of Keti Bandar Port. The proposal is also being considered that Keti Bandar Port could be used to set up coal based power plants and federal government had also proposed the Sindh government to set up the coal power plants at Keti Bandar Port due to easy access to water.

According to sources, Ports and Shipping Ministry has also prepared the PC-1 for setting up that port and prepared a master plan and sought views from different ministries regarding the activities on the port. Sindh has the biggest reserves of clay, granite and coal and the Keti Bandar Port would help setting up plants for granite and coal. This would not only help utilise the clay, coal and granite but create trade activities on the port.

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