Pakistan: Meeting to tackle Iran trade hurdles next week
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
Chiefs of the Gwadar Port Authority (GPA) and Customs Transit Trade on Wednesday decided to hold a comprehensive multi-stakeholder meeting next Thursday to finalise a concrete action plan to streamline transit trade and cargo movement to Iran via Gwadar Port.
GPA Chairman Noorul Haq Baloch met Customs Transit Trade Director General Irfan Javed at the Directorate General of Customs Transit Trade Office.
The decision to convene a meeting followed discussions on facilitating, streamlining, and organising cargo transit to Iran through the Gabd/Rimdhan 250 border crossing.
Officials noted that despite clear directives from the Ministry of Commerce and the Federal Board of Revenue, cross-border trade via Gwadar Port continues to face operational bottlenecks.
In a separate engagement in Karachi, Mr Baloch met Karachi Port Trust Chairman, retired Rear Admiral Shahid Ahmed, at the KPT head office to discuss enhancing connectivity and maritime economic growth. The officials exchanged views on current cargo traffic patterns and strategic measures to strengthen Pakistan’s maritime sector.
Reference Link:- https://www.dawn.com/news/2035532/meeting-to-tackle-iran-trade-hurdles-next-week
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.…
