DP World bolsters Pakistan operations

DP World has added an inland destination to its operations in Pakistan with the official opening of its state-of-the-art Inland Container Terminal (ICT) in Lahore, the country's second largest city.


DP World Lahore, also known as the Prem Nagar Dry Port, was inaugurated by Shahid Hussain Raza, Chairman, Pakistan's Ministry of Railways, at a ceremony attended by top government officials and representatives of DP World this week.


DP World Lahore, the first Public Private Partnership (PPP) project by the Ministry of Railways, is directly linked by rail to Qasim International Container Terminal (QICT), a port managed and operated by DP World Karachi more than 1,000 km away.


The ICT's inauguration closely follows the opening of Terminal 2 in Port Qasim on January 12, which expanded QICT's capacity from 900,000 teu to around 1.2m teu.
(Source:http://www.seatrade-asia.com)