$4.5 Billion Highlighted by Pakistan Navy.Merchant-cum-combat ships?

[313baberali]

Where do you get the $4.5 billion figure ??

Pakistan's trade is $28 billion (export + import)
Foreign trade of Pakistan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

well i believe the 4.5 fig is TRUE, as now it is mention by more than two news sources.
here is the fresh one
Still waters: Pakistan’s coastline of apathy - The Express Tribune
"Pakistan National Shipping Corporation, which is the national flag carrier, has only nine vessels, of which four are oil tankers. As a result, the country pays more than $4.5 billion to foreign freight carriers every year. In fact, having only four oil tankers of its own puts Pakistan in a vulnerable position, one an enemy state can easily exploit in the event of a conflict."
plus here is one more link better than wiki
Statics Pakistan : 2013-2014 Import 25,110 Export 45,073
2014-2015 23,667 45,826
value in $us millions
http://www.pbs.gov.pk/sites/default/files//tables/Web site T-14.8_0.pdf
plus these values shows imports and exports only ,there are other links in statics Pakistan which also add services and commodities in import export and those figures showing really different numbers

only one news show 3.5 billion
so let say 3.5 ,still big ammount.

and look at that transport in imports section
Sea Transport october2015 124,620
2014 218,010
july to october 2015-2016 510,490
2014-2015 966,870

amount is in Us thousands.. i believe 3.5 or 4.5 is sum of many things.and to understand these statics figure a expert can answer better than me

http://www.sbp.org.pk/publications/import/2015/Oct/2.pdf