Pakistan International Bulk Terminal (PIBT) CFO Arslan Iftikhar Khan said that adding the second conveyor belt for coal will increase the terminal’s capacity to 17m tonnes per annum from the existing 12m tonnes. Coal imports via PIBT hit a peak of 10.1m tonnes last year. Separately, three coal-based power plants import up to 12m tonnes a year collectively through their own jetties.
PIBT CORPORATE OBJECTIVES
- To develop the bulk terminal as a modern state-of-the-art handling facility.
- To contribute towards enhancing the country’s port infrastructure for handling bulk cargoes of coal, cement and clinker up to 16 million tons a year.
- To operate the terminal at best international standards of efficiency.
- To commit contributing towards planting mangroves in Port Qasim area on 500 hectares (over a 1,000 acres at Port Qasim).
- To develop and introduce innovative new methods of dirty bulk cargo logistics in Pakistan for the benefit of the country’s trade and industry.
- To adopt the best global standards of Health, Safety & Environment.
PIBT BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY
- To reclaim and undertake civil works on 25 hectares of storage area at Port Qasim.
- To construct a 2.5 km trestle carrying conveyor belt, which connects the Storage Area to the Jetty.
- To construct a two berths operational jetty connected via a trestle bridge to the backup Storage Area.
- To import modern mechanized coal, clinker and cement handling equipment at the terminal.
- To set up 50,000 tons capacity of cement silos.
- To set up an indigenous Power Plant.
- To establish common-user terminal handling facilities for providing port infrastructure to the cement firms for exporting loose bulk cement and clinker.
- To establish port facilities for enhanced coal imports in the country for potential use by power plants and for the present use of the cement industry.
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