New Gwadar International Airport Project

[Asim Khalil]

What would be the estimate time for completion of this project?

[Abbas Ali]

Let's seen when groundbreaking at actual construction site of the airport takes place.

Abbas

[Abbas Ali]

[Abbas Ali]

Today, Aviation Minister Ghulam Sarwar Khan informed the Senate that the construction of new Gwadar International Airport is expected to begin by June this year. China has agreed to provide more than 35.27 billion rupees for construction of the new airport.

Construction of the airport will be completed in three years and it will be a modern airport, the minister said.

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[Abbas Ali]

New Gwadar International Airport construction work will start after Eid al-Fitr, according to China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) Project Director Hassan Daud Butt.

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[Abbas Ali]

Project Director of Gwadar International Airport Changed

June 25, 2019

QUETTA: The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has changed the project director of the new Gawadar International Airport over the delay in the completion of the project.

Sources said that director airport services Saddiq Ur Rehman has been given an additional charge of the project director while he has been given the charge to complete the project as early as possible.

He will oversee the project and visit the construction as need appeared.

According to the CAA spokesman, the senior officer has been given the charge for the national interest.

Source: abbtakk.tv

[Abbas Ali]

Groundbreaking ceremony at new Gwadar International Airport construction site. Machinery and workforce has arrived for the airport construction project.

Note the banner is in Chinese and English.

Pakistan's national language Urdu should also have been included in that banner.



Abbas

[Pakistan-1]

Gwadar is a Chinese city, why would the accommodate anyone or anything Pakistani ?

[Abbas Ali]

Container ship Cape Male berthed at Gwadar Port. The ship arrived with forty containers of equipment to be used for the construction of new Gwadar International Airport.

The ship was welcomed at the port by college and university students of Balochistan.

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[Abbas Ali]

Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Information & Broadcasting Dr. Firdous Ashiq Awan at a press conference in Quetta today said that new Gwadar International Airport will be Pakistan's third largest airport.

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[Amaad Lone]

How many domestic flights go into Gawader every day????? I just saw that Gwader gets 3 weekly flights from Karachi. Are you serious a city that has three weekly ATR42s needs a new airport??

What are they planning 1 weekly flight to Beijing.

How many international flights go into Gawader every day.

Complete waste of money, for an airport that handles maybe two or three flights a day is going to have the third biggest airport in Pakistan.

What about, Faisalabad, Sialkot, Peshawar, Multan.

This is a complete waste of money.

[Abbas Ali]

[Abbas Ali]

Construction of Gwadar airport picks up pace

Construction of the much-awaited New Gwadar International Airport has entered its second phase, as the joint Pakistan and China project pushes towards completion.

The airport is located in Gurandani, some 26 kilometers northeast of the city of Gwadar in Balochistan. Its total cost is $230 million.

“In the second phase a permanent station is being built,” Zhang Baozhong, chairman of the China Oversees Port Holding Company Chairman (COPHC), told Geo.tv, “This will spur up development activities with full speed and momentum.”

Despite the outbreak of the deadly coronavirus, construction of the airport did not halt, he added, and the second phase has begun as per schedule.

The project is expected to be completed in three years’ time. After which, Baozhong explained, it would be the second largest airport in Pakistan
connecting Gwadar with the rest of the world.

Source: The News

[baberblues]

oh wow so after Islamabad it would be Gwadar? Is there any traffic really flying to gwadar apart from cargo or maybe a few middle eastern flights?

[Frostbite]

To date, there haven't been any scheduled flights by middle east carriers into Gwadar. I don't think that too many middle east carriers would be interested in scheduled passenger flights to Gwadar even once the new airport is up and running.