BEIJING, April 23: Pakistan and China have signed an agreement to set up a bus-manufacturing plant at Port Qasim in Karachi by the end of this year.
The project will be undertaken jointly by China Yuantai International Traders and a Shanghai-based Pakistani company, Triple Engineering.
A design and technical layout of the plant have already been prepared on the basis of German technology. “We have acquired a piece of land at Port Qasim for this purpose,” said Ali Haider, a senior official of the Pakistani company.
It has also been proposed to set up a similar project near Gwadar in Balochistan. The buses to be manufactured will be made in accordance with the road conditions in the country.
Mr Haider told APP that a high-tech bus to be manufactured would be called “Land aircraft” which would have a safest in- built system to avoid loss of life in case of any accident. There would be separate buses for short and long routes, with different seats capacities. The long-route buses would also have the facility of a dinning-room and a toilet.
Meanwhile, 25 new Chinese buses, with a latest design, having 30 per cent less fuel-consumption capacity would be introduced in Karachi next month. Later, similar buses would be introduced in other cities.
The two-sides have also signed a contract to introduce CNG buses in Pakistan. Mr Haider hoped that the CNG buses would help reduce environmental pollution and overcome the transport problem in the big cities.
Re: China to set up bus plant at Port Qasim, similar project for Gawadar
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It has also been proposed to set up a similar project near Gwadar in Balochistan. The buses to be manufactured will be made in accordance with the road conditions in the country.
It is a good start. Down the road, Pakistani companies should get the knowhow and start manufacturing it themselves. And Pakistan needs to duplicate this process in many other fields. Musharraf needs to send shockwaves in the Pakistani economy to jumpstart the economy. A massive investment in infrastructure development and educational institutes need to made to prepare the hardware and the software for the future Pakistani economy. And India too has a vested interest in seeing Pakistan develop, because when people have positive goals in life they are less likely to be destructive.
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*Originally posted by Surya: *
It is a good start. Down the road, Pakistani companies should get the knowhow and start manufacturing it themselves. And Pakistan needs to duplicate this process in many other fields. Musharraf needs to send shockwaves in the Pakistani economy to jumpstart the economy. A massive investment in infrastructure development and educational institutes need to made to prepare the hardware and the software for the future Pakistani economy. And India too has a vested interest in seeing Pakistan develop, because when people have positive goals in life they are less likely to be destructive.
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I've seen these Chinese buses on Karachi streets, they're pretty cool and the latest in thing, though they are not as decorated and pretty as our regular buses from the outside, I've heard they have more comfortable interiors and also emit less pollution. Someone was telling me though that they emit less pollution only now because they are new and soon they'll also be emitting as much pollution as our regular big buses. Is that true?
I don't think it's true, irem. Newer engine design always emit less pollution than older ones. Less polluting engines are general more efficient too, by my understanding.
