{"id":16679,"date":"2025-08-15T00:04:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T00:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=16679"},"modified":"2025-08-15T00:04:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T00:04:11","slug":"ports-operating-profitably-despite-partial-capacity-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=16679","title":{"rendered":"Ports operating profitably despite partial capacity use"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Minister for Maritime Affairs Junaid Chaudhry has apprised the National Assembly that Pakistan&#8217;s ports were operating profitably despite currently running at around 50 per cent of their handling capacity, with multiple initiatives under way to expand utilization and boost revenue.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to a question, the minister clarified that ports acted as facilitators for cargo handling and their utilization depended directly on the country&#8217;s import and export volumes. &#8220;It is correct that ports like Karachi Port and Port Qasim are presently operating at partial capacity, but they remain in profit,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister for Maritime Affairs Junaid Chaudhry has apprised the National Assembly that Pakistan&#8217;s ports were operating profitably despite currently running at around 50 per cent of their handling capacity, with multiple initiatives under way to expand utilization and boost revenue. Responding to a question, the minister clarified that ports acted as facilitators for cargo handling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}