Introduction port qasim

Port Muhammad Bin Qasim is adjacent to the town of the same name in southeastern Karachi, Pakistan, on the Arabian Sea and the delta of the Indus River. Port Muhammad Bin Qasim was constructed in the 1970s to take some of the burgeoning traffic clogging the Port of Karachi. Today, it is Pakistan’s’ second biggest port.Vessels approach Port Muhammad Bin Qasim through a 45-kilometer Navigation Channel that can accommodate vessels to 75 thousand DWT. Tidal variation at Port Muhammad Bin Qasim ranges from 0.5 to 3.5 meters. One of Port Muhammad Bin Qasim’s advantages its location near the national highway network (the National Highway is 15 kilometers away), the rail network (the National Railway is 14 kilometers away), and air transport (22 kilometers from Jinnah International Airport). The National Railway has six tracks immediately behind the berths.
Port Muhammad Bin Qasim contains nine berths that handle cargo. It contains a multi-purpose terminal with four multi-purpose berths, each 200 meters in length. The Qasim International Container Terminal has two berths, each 300 meters long. The Engro Vopak Chemical Terminal has one berth. Pakistan Steel Mills uses the 279-meter-long Iron Ore and Coal Berth. The Fotco Oil Terminal has one berth but has room to add another four.
Port Muhammad Bin Qasim’s International Container Terminal contains two container-handling berths that were converted from four former multi-purpose berths. The terminal is the country’s first dedicated international container terminal, and it has been operating since mid-1997. The terminal covers 240 thousand square meters and has capacity to handle 360 thousand TEUs per year. It can accommodate vessels to 272 meters long and up to 45 thousand DWT. The terminal has rail-mounted ship-to-shore gantry cranes.
Working with Pakistan GasPort, Port Muhammad Bin Qasim is adding a floating Liquefied Natural Gas Terminal that will handle 3 million tons per year and accommodate vessels to 75 thousand DWT. Initial detailed surveys have been completed, and the project is scheduled to be completed in late 2010. The M/s Granada Group of Companies is planning a new specialized Liquefied Natural Gas Floating Terminal that will handle 3.5 million tons per year. Technical proposals are being evaluated.

Port Muhammad Bin Qasim is adding a dedicated Coal, Clinker/Cement Terminal that will handle 4 million tons per year and accommodate vessels to 75 thousand DWT.
Port Muhammad Bin Qasim is also planning to add a second Oil Jetty to handle products from the proposed Indus Oil Refinery. The jetty will have capacity for 9 million tons per year and will accommodate vessels to 75 thousand DWT.
Pakistan Steel Mills has requested a second Iron Ore and Coal Berth at Port Muhammad Bin Qasim. The port is planning to add a facility, to be synchronized with expansions of the steel mills, with capacity for 8 million tons per year that can accommodate vessels to 75 thousand DWT. Port Muhammad Bin Qasim is completing construction of a new Liquid Cargo Terminal to handle up to 4 million tons per year. Covering an area of more than 16.5 thousand square meters, the terminal will accommodate vessels to 35 thousand DWT.
Scheduled for completion in 2010, Port Muhammad Bin Qasim is adding a second container terminal with capacity for almost 1.2 million TEUs under an agreement with Dubai Port World. Covering an area of 250 thousand square meters, the terminal will support 6000-TEU container vessels.
In addition to these projects, Port Muhammad Bin Qasim is undertaking improvements at the port that include deepening and widening the navigation channel and completing the computerization systems supporting port operations.
Port Muhammad Bin Qasim’s Fotco Oil Terminal has operated since 1995. This state-of-the-art, environmentally-friendly terminal can handle 9 million tons of furnace oil per year, and there is room to add three more berths that would raise its capacity to 27 million tons per year. The facility’s jetty can accommodate vessels to 75 thousand DWT, and the terminal can berth tankers to 63 thousand DWT. Since it opened, the terminal has handled more than 29 million tons of furnace oil. In early 2001, it started handling white oil, and it has handled British Petroleum crude oil. Anticipating growth in Pakistan’s future needs for petroleum, the terminal can have four more berths and product pipelines. In addition, Port Muhammad Bin Qasim has set aside over 31 hectares of land for a POL Storage Tank Farm.