ISLAMABAD: The government has decided to provide ten-year tax holidays for Gwadar Export Processing Zone, Federal Minister for Industries and Production announced it during a press conference here on Wednesday.

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has offered Afghanistan to use Gwadar and Bin Qasim ports for trading activities under the Afghan Transit Trade Agreement (ATTA) while in return it wants access to Central Asian Republics (CARs), official sources confided to The News on Saturday.

ISLAMABAD : The Ministry of Defence has held the Balochistan government responsible for 122 percent increase in the price of the land for New Gwadar International Airport (NGIA). The provincial government has also been accused of not only ignoring the directives of the Deputy Chairman Planning Commission, but also changing the basic data of calculating[…]

ISLAMABAD: The government is unlikely to scrap the Gwadar Port agreement with the Singapore Port Authority (SPA), fearing that the operators would drag it into international arbitration, and would claim reputation damages, sources in the Ministry of Ports and Shipping told Business Recorder here on Friday.

KARACHI: Pakistan Navy has established a three-day free medical camp at Gwadar for civilian populace of the area.

ISLAMABAD (March 27 2009): Conflicts between Port Singapore Authority and stevedores, besides increasing demurrage, left the government with no option but to divert shipments, carrying imported wheat and urea from Gwadar to Karachi port, reliable sources told Business Recorder here on Thursday.

KARACHI: Although the government is all set for the ceremonial opening of the Gwadar port on Tuesday, authorities have failed to attract shippers or port users so far.

KARACHI: Since coming into operation in December 2008, it has been learnt that the Gwadar Port has been plagued with a host of problems such as transportation of goods into the area.