Daily Times
July 25, 2021
The Karachi Port Trust (KPT) is conducting a major study to affect various port development plans and improve the marine ecology within its jurisdiction.
Karachi Harbour encloses an area of some 62 square kilometres stretching from the Sandspit in the west to Chinna Creek in the east. The major changes have taken place in the Eastern Backwater (Chinna Creek) and the Western Backwater due to the continuous process of reclamation and encroachment, resulting in reduction in the tidal volume of the whole backwater system.
In July 1999, the Karachi Port Trust conducted a feasibility study of deepening the upper harbour and approach channel by HR Wallingford, which included Eastern Backwaters (Chinna Creek area) and Western Backwaters having mudflats and mangroves. “After passing of two decades, it has become necessary to conduct [a] feasibility study for determining the existing hydraulic regime in [the] KPT’s areas and water channels for easily flow of s