Islamabad: Pakistan and Iran have agreed to set up quarantine and pre-shipment inspection facilities close to border. The consensus between federal Minister for Food, Agriculture and Livestock (Minfal) Sikandar Hayat Bosan and his Iranian counterpa
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Islamabad: The World Bank has asked the government to lower the transportation cost, saying that it is severely constraining the economic growth and making the country’s export uncompetitive in the world.
Sources said that the government had bee
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Posted on: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 ; 11:06 IST
Islamabad: The government has outlined a plan to convert the informal transport sector into an industry, proposing that small and large companies be formed and registered to avail soft-loan and tariff incentives.
The government believes that the
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Islamabad: International donors have suggested a 10-point policy guideline for Afghanistan’s neighbouring countries to follow for the conclusion of efficient transit trade agreements, including one between Pakistan and Afghanistan, according to a l
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Posted on: Saturday, February 03, 2007 ; 11:03 IST
Karachi: The transportation is the main hurdle in the expansion of trade between Pakistan and Turkey as there is no direct shipping line. Land transport is almost non-existent between the two countries, pushing freight charges so high to make trade
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Islamabad: The Central Board of Revenue (CBR) will launch a new cargo clearance system from February 1, 2007 which will remain operative 24 hours, seven days a week, at all airports and sea ports.
Revenue Division Secretary-General and CBR Chair
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Posted on: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 ; 15:43 IST
Karachi: Pakistan has undertaken a comprehensive National Trade Corridor Improvement Programme focusing on augmenting transport capacities by developing land and land-cum-sea transport linkages with all neighbouring countries in the Economic Cooper
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RPTL signs power pact with western region power utilities
Reliance Power Transmission (RPTL), subsidiary of Reliance Infrastructure, India’s largest private sector enterprise in power utility, has signed power transmission agreement with eight entities from western India for two inter-state power transmission projects.
RPTL signed the agreement through its two Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs) for the projects under the Western Region System Strengthening Scheme-II (WRSSS-II), entailing an investment of INR18 billion, for establishing 400 KV double circuit transmission lines of around 1,500 kms, mainly in Maharashtra Continue
