Pakistan: KPT receives ultra-large container vessel
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
The MSC LORETO, among the largest container vessels currently operating, berthed at Karachi Port Trust’s SAPTL Terminal on Monday, in what port authorities are calling a significant milestone for Pakistan’s maritime infrastructure.
According to the KPT spokesperson, the vessel stretches 399.9 metres in length and carries a total capacity of 24,346 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs), of which 3,802 TEUs are designated for Karachi, making it one of the largest single-ship cargo calls the port has received.
The arrival of an ultra-large container vessel of this class signals that KPT’s terminal infrastructure has reached specifications capable of accommodating the newest generation of mega-ships, which many regional ports still cannot berth due to draft, quay length, or crane reach limitations.
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Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
