Port Qasim Night Navigation

• Project Type
• Container Terminal
• Client
• Qasim International Container Terminal Pakistan Limited
• Project Value
• PKR 75 million
• Project Period
• 1996 - present
• Current Status
• Completed

• Services
• Detailed Design • Contract Documentation • Site Supervision • Project Management • Tender Assessment

Description

The Port Qasim Authority entered into a contract with Qasim International Container Terminal Pakistan Limited (QICT) to develop a container terminal on Berths 5 to 7 at Port Qasim, Pakistan. 

The contract included the restoration of night navigational capability to the port.  This involved installing and/or replacing sufficient buoys, beacons and lights in the approach channels and turning basins to Port Qasim to enable safe and reliable navigation for container vessels 24 hours a day.

From a total of 74 buoys, 20 were missing and needed replacement and one was on board a tender vessel, leaving 53 buoys in need of repair and replacement of lights.  The buoys ranged in size between 2.5m and 3.05m diameter.

CGR was commissioned to:

• design the system;
• prepare tender documents for the work;
• call tenders;
• recommend a contractor;
• administer the contracts;
• supervise the work;
• prepare final inspections and acceptance certificates.

The project was completed in October 1996.
 

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