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: Pakistan,s Longest 893 Km RatoDero - Motorway M-8 under construction.
It is under construction in Wangu hill near . It will be fully completed in Dec 2017. And it will be Converted 4 lanes as Gwadar port fully operational.
China's overland Silk Road and Maritime Silk Road Thread
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: Pakistan,s Longest 893 Km RatoDero - Motorway M-8 under construction.
It is under construction in Wangu hill near . It will be fully completed in Dec 2017. And it will be Converted 4 lanes as Gwadar port fully operational.
Hendrik_2000
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Not too long ago Wade Sheppard bemoan a dusty outpost on semi dessert landscape Now it bloom into vibrant city with more in the future. Amazing out of nothing they create a full fledged city
Introducing land port Khorgos on the border between China (Xinjiang) and Kazakhstan
Khorgos: The New Silk Road's Central Station Comes To Life
What Khorgos looked like in 2010. Image courtesy of Jonathan Hillman of the Center for Strategic International Studies (CSIS). NOTHING THERE empty space now a city
“I know it doesn’t look like much now, but we’re building a new Dubai,” Gheysen told me in 2015.
In 2010 there was nothing in Khorgos. The place didn’t even exist — literally, it was nothing but an expanse of sand dunes running up to the bases of snowcapped mountains.
“It’s not even on the map yet! I tell people that if they look on Google Maps they won't find it. That's how new it is,” Hicham Belmaachi, who is now the chief operating officer of the Khorgos Eastern Gate Management Company, told me during one of my early visits.
At that time, the management there would point out into the distance and tell me about all the buildings, factories, and houses that would soon be there as we rumbled along unfinished dirt roads in large 4X4s. Even though I’d been visiting and researching new cities for years by that point and understood how entirely new urban entities can grow up out of nothing, it was difficult for me to check a “yeah right” kind of response when it came to Khorgos.
But in February 2017, the scene at Khorgos is a little different.
The Khorgos Gateway dry port. Image: Wade Shepard.
The dry port
Hardly a year ago, the filmmaker Lorenz Knaur had to wait two days to film a China-Europe train coming into the dry port in Khorgos. Today, Khorgos Gateway is handling these throughout the day and night. As I sat with an operator high up in a crane, , there was a set of trains on the tracks below us having their containers transferred over from one to the other, as another train that was stocked with the innovative departed for Europe.
Khorgos Gateway has now become one of Kazakhstan's primary dry ports for handling trans-Eurasian trains, which travel more than 9,000 kilometers between cities in China like Chongqing, Chengdu, and Yiwu and cities in Europe like , Duisburg in Germany, and Lodz in Poland. There are currently 39 such China-Europe routes in operation -- an emerging network that is .
Approximately 65 trains, amounting to 6,200 TEU, per month are currently being transshipped through Khorgos Gateway. While this is still a long shot from the goal of half a million TEU per year, it is still a clear sign of growth. However, even though there is growth at Khorgos Gateway, the dry port is still running at under-capacity, and this isn't fully due to market forces alone. Most cargo volume that passes from China to Kazakhstan goes through the 50% Russian-owned Dostyk port to the north, where Astana has a preexisting deal that doesn't permit them to transfer shipments from there to other terminals.
"They have this state of the art, $250 million terminal at Khorgos but they're shipping 80% of the volume through Dostyk," a long-term Kazakhstan-based logistics manager exclaimed.
Introducing land port Khorgos on the border between China (Xinjiang) and Kazakhstan
What Khorgos looked like in 2010. Image courtesy of Jonathan Hillman of the Center for Strategic International Studies (CSIS). NOTHING THERE empty space now a city
“I know it doesn’t look like much now, but we’re building a new Dubai,” Gheysen told me in 2015.
In 2010 there was nothing in Khorgos. The place didn’t even exist — literally, it was nothing but an expanse of sand dunes running up to the bases of snowcapped mountains.
“It’s not even on the map yet! I tell people that if they look on Google Maps they won't find it. That's how new it is,” Hicham Belmaachi, who is now the chief operating officer of the Khorgos Eastern Gate Management Company, told me during one of my early visits.
At that time, the management there would point out into the distance and tell me about all the buildings, factories, and houses that would soon be there as we rumbled along unfinished dirt roads in large 4X4s. Even though I’d been visiting and researching new cities for years by that point and understood how entirely new urban entities can grow up out of nothing, it was difficult for me to check a “yeah right” kind of response when it came to Khorgos.
But in February 2017, the scene at Khorgos is a little different.
The Khorgos Gateway dry port. Image: Wade Shepard.
The dry port
Hardly a year ago, the filmmaker Lorenz Knaur had to wait two days to film a China-Europe train coming into the dry port in Khorgos. Today, Khorgos Gateway is handling these throughout the day and night. As I sat with an operator high up in a crane, , there was a set of trains on the tracks below us having their containers transferred over from one to the other, as another train that was stocked with the innovative departed for Europe.
Khorgos Gateway has now become one of Kazakhstan's primary dry ports for handling trans-Eurasian trains, which travel more than 9,000 kilometers between cities in China like Chongqing, Chengdu, and Yiwu and cities in Europe like , Duisburg in Germany, and Lodz in Poland. There are currently 39 such China-Europe routes in operation -- an emerging network that is .
Approximately 65 trains, amounting to 6,200 TEU, per month are currently being transshipped through Khorgos Gateway. While this is still a long shot from the goal of half a million TEU per year, it is still a clear sign of growth. However, even though there is growth at Khorgos Gateway, the dry port is still running at under-capacity, and this isn't fully due to market forces alone. Most cargo volume that passes from China to Kazakhstan goes through the 50% Russian-owned Dostyk port to the north, where Astana has a preexisting deal that doesn't permit them to transfer shipments from there to other terminals.
"They have this state of the art, $250 million terminal at Khorgos but they're shipping 80% of the volume through Dostyk," a long-term Kazakhstan-based logistics manager exclaimed.
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will the canal eventually being covered?
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No...
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Neelum Jehlum Hydroelectric Power Project....
A rock-fill embankment dam on the right abutment spanning over the fault in the river bed and a concrete dam structure on the left side of the fault. The rock-fill embankment and concrete sections will be isolated by a concrete gravity wall.
The main purpose for the addition of rockfill embankment dam is to accommodate movement or settlement along the fault. The composite section dams are noted to perform well during seismic activity and thus the risk of a catastrophic failure would be significantly reduced for the diversion dam.
220,883m³ of Core (Clay), Fine Filter, Coarse Filter, D/S Drain, Rockfill, U/S Riprap & D/S Grouted Riprap required to complete the dam.
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:2 x 660 MW coal-fired power plants at Port Qasim, under Construction.
First Unit will be ready by this Month, - ...
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- ..This fishing town in Pakistan has become significant in the world’s changing geo-political landscape.
