KARACHI: Six-member delegation from Chinese Guangdong province visited Karachi Port Trust (KPT) here on Thursday and signed a MoU for strengthening of ports and shipping connectivity.
The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) will work for establishing cooperation between Guangdong Provincial Transportation Department and KPT, said a KPT statement.
The delegation was led by Vice Governor, Guangdong Province of China, Liu Zhigeng.
The MoU was signed by KPT’s Chairman Vice Admiral Shafqat Jawed and Director General, Department of Transport Guangdong Province, Zeng Zhaogeng. Federal Minister for Ports and Shipping Senator Kamran Michael and other top officials of his ministry and KPT also attended the ceremony.
MoU acknowledges the existing friendly relations between Pakistan and China, and fulfils the desire of further strengthening the existing friendly relations through cooperative activities as ports in Guangdong province and KPT are transportation hubs of the two countries.
It envisages promoting cooperation in port and shipping, freight and logistics; facilitating the import, export and transhipment of goods from Guangdong province, besides accelerating customs clearance for the reduction of companies’ logistics cost.
For improving professional and management skills of the managers of the port and shipping industry, it was agreed to carry out professional education and training in the field of ports and shipping, and logistics.
Provision has been kept for further consultations on cooperation and other issues of common concern as both the parties have endeavoured to engage the administrative authorities and industry associations of the respective two countries for maintaining constant contact and for sending their representatives to visit each other for communication advancement.
