KARACHI – Pakistan’s first ever deep-water container terminal hasoperationalised at the Karachi Port .

The deep-water container terminal has the capacity to carry 17,000-18,000containers of 20-foot each.

Existing container terminals in the country house vessels of the capacityof around 8,000 TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units) due to deep water andother handling constraints.

Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi while inaugurating it says restorationof peace in Karachi is success of all of us.

Addressing the ceremony after inauguration of National Incubation center inKarachi this evening, he said Pakistan’s progress and development is linkedwith Karachi.

He said in spite of difficulties attention is being paid to developmentprojects.

Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said that continuity of democratic system isimperative for the development and progress of the country.

He said that Information Technology Parks will be established in thecountry to promote Information Technology in the country.

Our Karachi correspondent Altaf Pirzado reports that National IncubationCenter has been established at NED University under government’s digiskillprogramme to at provide digital skilled training to the youth.

Minister for Information Technology Anusha Rehman in her address presentedthe salient features of the Center.