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Tranzum Courier Service, commonly known as TCS, is a Pakistani courier and logistics company which is based in Karachi. It was founded as a joint venture with DHL by a former Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight engineer, Khalid Nawaz Awan and his brother Sadiq Awan in 1983.
KGTML operates a bulk and general cargo terminal on berths 11–17 on the East Wharf of Karachi Port under a 25-year concession. [2] [10] [11] [8] The general cargo operations handles steel, paper, and clinker, while the clean bulk terminal handles grains and fertilizers. [2]
In line with its status as a major port and the country's largest metropolis, it accounts for most of Pakistan's revenue generation. According to the Pakistan Federal Board of Revenue's 2006-2007 year-book, tax and customs units in Karachi were responsible for 70.75% of direct taxes, 33.65% of federal excise tax, and 23.38% of domestic sales tax. [3]
Karachi Urban Transport Corporation (KUTC) (Urdu: کراچی شهری حمل و نقل شرکت) is a municipal agency responsible for planning and integrating road transport and public transport in the Metropolitan Karachi area.
Karachi ACC is also part of the Bobcat Air Traffic Flow Management program, which helps to optimize traffic flow through Kabul FIR. Due to lower navigation and surveillance capabilities, and limited ATS provision capabilities, Kabul FIR often becomes very congested airspace with limited number of operating routes and flight levels.
Pakistan Steel Mills is the current largest industrial corporation undertaking having a production capacity of 1.1—5.0 million tonnes [2] of steel and iron foundries. Built with the contributions of the Soviet Union in the 1970s, it is the largest industrial mega corporation complex, [3] vastly expanded in an enormous dimensions construction inputs, involving the use of 1.29Mn cubic meters ...
Karachi was an important military base during the First World War (1914–18) because it was the first British Raj port of call for ships coming through the Suez Canal and was the gateway to Afghanistan and the Russian Empire. Karachi was again a military base and port for supplies to the Russian front during the Second World War (1939–1945 ...
During World War II, Karachi Airport was a major transhipment base for United States Army Air Forces units and equipment being used by Tenth Air Force in eastern India, Burma and the Fourteenth Air Force in China. [citation needed] Several operational bomber and fighter units flew into Karachi for short organisational periods prior to their ...