Port Qasim Road carpeting: KCCI chief voices concern over massive traffic jam

KARACHI: President Karachi Chamber of Commerce & Industry (KCCI) M Shariq Vohra while expressing deep concern over massive traffic jam on Port Qasim Road has said that the Karachi Chamber started receiving dozens of complaints from its members since Thursday morning about severe traffic jam due to road carpeting which was initiated without the provision of alternate route and deployment of extra traffic police officials that resulted in disturbing the port operations by completely blocking all the import and export consignments.

“To get this serious issue resolved, we tried to contact Chairman PQA Rear Admiral Syed Hassan Nasir Shah (retd) but we were told by his PA that chairman PQA is not available and busy in a meeting”, Shariq Vohra said in a statement issued.

He said that unfortunately, the development work of Port Qasim Road was initiated without informing KCCI and Bin Qasim Association of Trade & Industry (BQATI) which worsened the situation as the business community was totally unaware of the development work and all the consignments were scheduled as per routine.

“If PQA had informed KCCI or BQATI earlier about the planned road carpeting on Thursday, we would have certainly disseminated the info amongst businessmen and industrialists so that they could reschedule their consignments,” he said.

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