Gwadar Port (گوادر بندرگاه ) is located on shores of Arabian Sea in Province Balochistan of Pakistan. It is Famous for its Deep and worm water. It is 553 km far from Pakistan's biggest city Karachi and 120 km from Iran.
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Gwadar was under Omani Rule when Pakistan identified it as a Port site in 1954. After 4 years Pakistan purchased Gwadar from Oman for $3 millions on 8 sep 1958. Gwadar officially became part of Pakistan after 200 years of Omani rule.
First Phase of Gwadar construction was from 2002-2006. But inaugurated in 2007 by President General Pervez Musharraf. First Phase construction cost was $248 millions.
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Second Phase of Gwadar Port construction is still underway from 2015 as a Part of CPEC project. The Total expected cost of 2nd Phase is $1.02 billions. Scond Phase of Construction includes 4 Container Berths along 3.2 kilometers of shoreline, 1 Bulk Cargo Terminal (capacity: 100,000 DWT ships), 1 Grain Terminal, 1 Ro-Ro Terminal, 2 Oil Terminals (capacity: 200,000 DWT ships each) ,Approach Channel: To be dredged to 14.5 m depth, 4 lane expressway to connect the port to the Makran Coastal Highway, New international airport to be built in vicinity of the port, Floating liquefied natural gas terminal with capacity of 500 million cubic feet of gas per day, 2,292 acre special economic zone to be developed adjacent to port, Desalination plant and 360 megawatt coal-fired power plant.
There are also some long term plans for Gwadar include Dredging of approach channel to depth of 20 meters, 100 berths to be built by 2045 and increase Capacity to handle 400 million tons of cargo per year.
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Firstly Port was operated by PSA but now it is operated by COPHC,
Some other facts about Gwadar Port
Land distances from Gwadar
Quetta 970 Km
Turbat 165 Km
Gabd 120 Km
Karachi 630 Km
Ratodero 892 Km
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