First CPEC-specific shipment to arrive in mid-November

[Zee-shaun]

First CPEC-specific shipment to arrive in mid-November
By Peer Muhammad
Published: October 30, 2016
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all necessary arrangements including the provision of security to the shipment entering Pakistan. The Chinese containers will enter through the Sost border and then be shipped via Gwadar Port. PHOTO: FILE

ISLAMABAD: The first shipment under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) will enter Pakistan in November through the Sost border in Gilgit-Baltistan, which is due to close this year.

Both China and Pakistan’s governments have finalised arrangements to formally kick off trade activity under the umbrella of CPEC, starting specific import of goods through the new route under the $45-billion project.

A senior official said that the government has made all necessary arrangements including the provision of security to the shipment entering Pakistan. The Chinese containers will enter through the Sost border and then be shipped via Gwadar Port, said the official.

“It is a good omen that we are going to launch the flagship programme by receiving containers from China next month, which is a sign of formal start of exports via Gwadar port,” said the official.

The shipment will enter Pakistan in mid-November and would be followed by another one if the Sost border remains open with no heavy snowfall till the mid of December, said the official.

However, the official said the total number of containers in the inaugural shipment was unknown.

Meanwhile, experts believed that the development is a sign of success for both governments towards formally materialising the project despite several internal and external challenges.

China and Pakistan signed the multi-billion dollar CPEC project during the visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping in April 2015, where as many as 52 MoUs were signed containing infrastructure and power projects in addition to development of sea ports, airports and establishment of economic zones.

Ship arrives at Gwadar Port

Meanwhile, in an another development marking the operational success of the Gwadar Port and Free Zone, MV Chang Hang Han Hai, carrying construction materials and other equipment, berthed at Gwadar Port on Friday.

The ship coming from Luojing and Yangzhou ports of China docked at the port filled with various construction materials and other equipment including bulldozer trucks, dumpers, cranes, rollers, generators, electric cables, pipes and other accessories. These will be used for construction and development of the initial area of Gwadar Port Free Zone. The Free Zone is being developed by China overseas Ports Holding Company Limited (COPHC).

The port has been operational since March, 2008; 176 ships loaded with wheat and urea have been handled and 6.330 million tons of cargo has been discharged and transported to the country.

Container business has also started from Gwadar Port; initially limited export of local fish was shipped through COSCO vessels twice a month.

The Chinese port operator, COPHC, has been working on increasing the number of ships and this is the second ship arriving at Gwadar Port this month. Earlier, MV Tian FU brought machinery and heavy construction material for the initial area of Free Zone.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 30th, 2016.

 

[Zee-shaun]

First two Chinese ships docked in Gwadar and in mid November we will reach another milestone when the dryports in China and Pakistan process the first shipment.

CPEC is taking pace.

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

Congrats on this mile stone

 

[Clutch]

Good... nice to see all the pieces come together over the years.... And now a new dawn for Pakistan.

New beginnings... the future belongs to the brave who defy the odds.

 

[Zee-shaun]

What is a shipment? A single truck with a container?

Yes, bringing a shipment of burnol to you.

 

[Spring Onion]

What is a shipment? A single truck with a container?

Container part indeed is what it is but it is not known how many of these containers

However, the main point is "“It is a good omen that we are going to launch the flagship programme by receiving containers from China next month, which is a sign of formal start of exports via Gwadar port,” said the official.

Source: https://defence.pk/threads/first-cp...-arrive-in-mid-november.458640/#ixzz4ObBJ4frA

 

[Hamza913]

Economic progress here we come.

 

[jermankill]

Long live Pak China Friendship and for the enemy of this friendship

 

[Hakikat ve Hikmet]

Elhamdulillah!! The younger of the Sherif brothers was a distinguished guest at the opening ceremony of the Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge over the Bosphorus. Now, if some folks from Turkey visit they have the entire CPEC to show..

 

[singlefighter]

Hope progress will continue between china Pakistan and Turks will join it through iranian route then chinese goods will go to Europe thourgh shorter route of taftan zahidan and then enter into Turkey and reexport to Europe via Anatolia port where chinese can avoid the route of Bab al mandab war zone and somali pirates and use gawadar port for their oil imports from Africa, ME and trade with them through Gawadar

 

[Muhammad Omar]

Shipment is here

 

[Spring Onion]

First Chinese shipment rolls into Sost dry port in Gilgit-Baltistan

First CPEC shipment reaches Sost dry port in G-B. PHOTO: SHABBIR MIR/EXPRESS

GILGIT: Hundreds of Chinese trucks loaded with goods rolled into the Sost dry port in Gilgit-Baltistan on Monday as a multibillion-dollar project between Pakistan and China formally became operational.

The shipment arrived more than two weeks after the first Chinese ship docked at Gwadar port that is the centre of the $46 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project. The corridor is about 3,000-kilometre long consisting of highways, railways and pipelines that will connect China’s Xinjiang province to the rest of the world through Gwadar port.

First CPEC-specific shipment to arrive in mid-November

The first consignment, loaded on 150 to 300 trucks, was received by G-B Chief Minister Hafeezur Rehman and the commander of the Force Command Northern Areas Maj Gen Saqib Mehmood, who had especially flown in to be at the historic occasion.

“This is going to be the fate changer for our country,” said Rehman after the ceremony at the Sost dry port, which has recently been handed over to the National Logistics Cell (NLC) for a period of 20 years.

“We will thwart conspiracies being hatched against CPEC,” he said in a veiled reference to India which has publicly opposed the multibillion-dollar project dubbed ‘game-changer’ and ‘fate changer’ not just for Pakistan but for the entire region.

A senior government official said the shipping containers carrying the Chinese goods would be escorted to Gwadar in small convoys. “The first convoy left Gilgit today [Monday] for its destination,” the official told The Express Tribune wishing not to be named.

“Personnel of army, police and special CPEC force are providing foolproof security to the convoy,” added the official, who is privy to the development.

“Some of the Chinese shipping containers were unloaded at Sost dry port where the goods were reloaded on to Pakistani containers for onward journey to Gawadar.”

As the convoy drove through Danyor town in Gilgit via Karakoram Highway, residents lining both sides of the road waved to the truckers. The trucks were festooned with banners having pictures of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his Chinese counterpart Li Keqiang.

“Wish you best of luck,” said a resident as he prayed for the success of the project. “Long live Pak-China friendship,” said another resident.

Earlier this year, Beijing donated to the G-B government 25 vehicles equipped with modern security gears for the security of convoys coming from China. The G-B government has also installed 285 high-resolution closed-circuit cameras with night vision capability to keep an eye on miscreants.



Published in The Express Tribune, November 1st, 2016.