TSHD ABUL

Modern dredger for ambitious Port Authorities

• The Karachi Port Trust (KPT)
• A modern dredger …
• … and a unique training concept
• A satisfying new start

The Karachi Port Trust (KPT)
The Karachi Port of Pakistan is administered by a Board of Trustees. The Chairman is also the Chief Executive of Karachi Port Trust. Trustees are equally distributed between the public and the private sector. These people and the people they represent are heirs to an inheritance that has been known as a safe harbour since time immemorial. Historians attach Karachi’s region to events so ancient as Alexander’s journey in 326 B.C, and the landing of the first Muslim Conqueror of India in 711 AD. Karachi itself is the birth place of the founder of Pakistan, Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, and was the first capital of Pakistan till 1963. Currently it is the country’s largest city, population over 10 million people. The earliest written evidence stems from 1558: The Arabic treatise Muhit, on navigation, warns the sailors of whirlpools and advises them to seek safety in Karachi Harbour if they find themselves drifting dangerously. The development leading to the current shape of the Port started in 1854 with the activity of dredging the main navigation channel. More about the port’s history can be found on KPT’s website.

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