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  • Vessel carrying US military cargo calls at Pakistan’s port

    KARACHI: While confusion and frustration keep rising at the White House over the Afghan war, another vessel carrying military cargo and vehicles for US troops in Afghanistan called at Port Qasim on Wednesday...

    This is the third vessel in a short period of two months that called at the country’s port for unloading military hardware and trucks
  • India, Afghanistan plan air cargo link over Pakistan

    India and Afghanistan are likely to announce an air cargo service on Saturday to help increase trade that both say is stymied because of their tense political relations with Pakistan...

    Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi were meeting in the northern Indian city of Amritsar, a short distance from the Pakistan border, for the Heart of Asia conference aimed at stabilising Afghanistan
  • Pakistan seeks LNG cargo for February

    LONDON: Pakistan issued a tender on Friday to buy a cargo of liquefied natural gas (LNG) for delivery in February 2020, documents from state-owned gas firm Pakistan LNG showed...

    The delivery window is on Feb 16-17, and the deadline to submit offers is on Dec
  • Radioactive cargo ‘didn’t come from Pakistan’: FO

    • The Sun report claims uranium on flight from Karachi detected during scan • Officials say no word from UK on probe so farLONDON/ISLAMABAD: Reports that a package containing uranium originating from Pakistan arrived at Heathrow Airport last month sparked panic in the United Kingdom on Wednesday, but Pakistani officials insisted that London has not contacted Islamabad regarding the investigation into the matter...

    Officials also said...
  • Kazakhstan to challenge sea shippers for China-EU cargo

    KHORGOS: Kazakhstan wants to establish itself as a major trading hub between China and Europe and get a share of a $600 billion market, but it will have to end tough, often time-wasting, regulations that hurt its reputation as a cross-border trading partner...

    The landlocked Central Asian country has its eye on one day claiming a 10th of China-Europe traffic from maritime shippers, using its strategic location and help from major cargo...
  • Two Chinese stabbed to death in cargo ship violence

    MANILA: Two Chinese men were stabbed to death and another was injured in violence among crew members of a cargo ship that radioed Filipino authorities for medical help, Philippine police said on Sunday...

    Philippine authorities boarded MV Qing May after it docked and brought an injured Chinese crewman to a hospital in southern Zamboanga city early on Sunday with the permission of the ship’s skipper, Zamboanga police director Angelito...
  • SpaceX cargo ship blasts off towards space station

    MIAMI: SpaceX’s unmanned Dragon cargo ship blasted off on Tuesday toward the International Space Station, carrying a load of food and supplies for the astronauts living in orbit...

    The California-based company’s Falcon 9 rocket launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida at 4:10 pm (2010 GMT), and was to be followed minutes later by an attempt at guiding the first stage of the rocket to land upright on an ocean platform
  • Orbital ATK launches eighth cargo mission to ISS

    WASHINGTON: An unmanned cargo ship packed with 7,400 pounds (3,350 kilograms) of food and supplies for the astronauts living at the International Space Station blasted off Sunday from Wallops Island, Virginia...

    Orbital ATK’s barrel-shaped Cygnus cargo ship launched atop an Antares rocket at 7:19am, a day after a last-second delay due to an unexpected aircraft in the area
  • Iranian forces fire at, board cargo ship in Gulf, says Pentagon

    DUBAI: Iranian forces boarded a Marshall Islands-flagged cargo ship in the Gulf on Tuesday after patrol boats fired warning shots across its bow and ordered it deeper into Iranian waters, the Pentagon said...

    United States planes and a destroyer were monitoring the situation after the vessel — the MV Maersk Tigris — made a distress call in the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world's most important oil shipping channels
  • Govt asked to shift Afghan cargo handling to Gwadar

    KARACHI: Traders and industrialists have urged the government to shift the handling of Afghan Transit Trade (ATT) from Karachi to Gwadar Port in order to ease cargo-related congestion and ever-growing pressure on the city’s road network...

    This was stated by All Pakistan Customs Agents’ Association’s Senior Vice Chairman, Arshad Jamal, at a seminar on ‘Tax Reforms and Procedures’, organised by the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of...
  • China’s first cargo spacecraft docks with space lab

    BEIJING: China’s first cargo spacecraft, Tianzhou-1, successfully completed docking with an orbiting space lab on Saturday, the Beijing Aerospace Control Centre said...

    The Tianzhou-1 was launched from the Wenchang Space Launch Centre in Hainan province on Thursday evening and began to approach the space lab, Tiangong-2, Saturday morning
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