Hub-Karachi railway track under study
KARACHI (January 18 2007): The Lasbela Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) will provide necessary commercial and industrial data to Railway for their assessment in developing the feasibility report of linking Hub industrial area with Karachi through railway track.
Considering the importance of Lasbela district being the gateway to Gawader port, the chamber proposed to the Ministry of Railway for laying a railway track from Karachi to Hub. The chamber also proposed that a passenger and goods trains be run to facilitate industrialists to reduce the cost of transportation of their workers and goods, thus reducing their cost of production.
After receiving the proposal Railway authorities have advised the chamber to contact the railway approved consultants to prepare a feasibility report of the project.
The chamber contacted as many as eight railway-approved consultants and ultimately M/s Pakistan Railways Advisory and Consultancy Services (Pvt) Limited Islamabad sent their proposal for preparing the feasibility report. Pursuing the same, a meeting was held between Pakistan Railway, Lida and the Lasbela Chamber to consider the ways and means to proceed further.
An interdepartmental body comprising representatives of Pakistan Railway, LCCI and Lasbela Industrial Development Authority (Lida) has been formed to study the technical and commercial aspect of the proposed linkage of Hub, Gawadar and Karachi through a railway track.
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KARACHI (January 18 2007): The Lasbela Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) will provide necessary commercial and industrial data to Railway for their assessment in developing the feasibility report of linking Hub industrial area with Karachi through railway track.
Considering the importance of Lasbela district being the gateway to Gawader port, the chamber proposed to the Ministry of Railway for laying a railway track from Karachi to Hub. The chamber also proposed that a passenger and goods trains be run to facilitate industrialists to reduce the cost of transportation of their workers and goods, thus reducing their cost of production.
After receiving the proposal Railway authorities have advised the chamber to contact the railway approved consultants to prepare a feasibility report of the project.
The chamber contacted as many as eight railway-approved consultants and ultimately M/s Pakistan Railways Advisory and Consultancy Services (Pvt) Limited Islamabad sent their proposal for preparing the feasibility report. Pursuing the same, a meeting was held between Pakistan Railway, Lida and the Lasbela Chamber to consider the ways and means to proceed further.
An interdepartmental body comprising representatives of Pakistan Railway, LCCI and Lasbela Industrial Development Authority (Lida) has been formed to study the technical and commercial aspect of the proposed linkage of Hub, Gawadar and Karachi through a railway track.
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