DP World opens new container terminal near Karachi

Dubai: Global marine terminal operator DP World announced the opening of its new container terminal in Port Qasim near Karachi in Pakistan on Wednesday, with the arrival of its first customer, the French container vessel, CMA CGM Wagner.

The opening of Terminal 2, the major expansion of DP World Karachi, will take capacity at Port Qasim to around 1.2 million TEU (twenty foot equivalent container units) from around 900,000 TEU and marks the successful completion of the first of DP World’s 3-phase development – the largest ever investment in the port sector in Pakistan.