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Pakistan’s ports get war-time windfall amid shifting Gulf shipping routes

Authorities at Pakistan’s second-largest seaport, Port Qasim, are deepening and widening its 49-kilometer navigational channel under a $250 million capital dredging project to accommodate larger vessels, officials said on Wednesday, citing more than four-time surge in transshipment at the country’s ports. Port Qasim Authority (PQA) has handled 20,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) or…

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