By September 2023, the port city’s newest and largest airport, the $246 million New Gwadar International Airport (NGIA), which was constructed on 4,300 acres, would be open to both domestic and international flights.
According to an official source, the project’s passenger terminal building would be finished by June 2023, the work related to air traffic control would be finished by March 2023, and the entire airport would be finished before September 2023.
The New Gwadar International Airport was managed and run by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), a joint venture between Pakistan, Oman, and China that would handle both domestic and international operations (NGIA). Airport development is a component of the vast China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project, which is a cornerstone of China’s One Belt, One Road (OBOR) policy.
The NGIA, which is the largest airport in Pakistan, will operate in 2023 and will be the country’s second airport ready to accommodate A380 aircraft. It will encourage the growth of the Gwadar Peninsula and increase trade between China and Pakistan, changing the region’s geopolitical standing and making it a center for trade and investment opportunities The CAA would oversee the management and development of the airport in compliance with the open sky policy. The New Gwadar International Airport project was started in 2014 as an early harvest high-priority project under the CPEC initiative.
The project of the National Economic Council (ECNEC), which was being supported by a grant agreement signed between China and Pakistan in May 2017, was approved by the Executive Committee in January 2015. In addition to soil testing on the project site, which began in January 2018, the airport construction also entailed digging 300 boreholes at various places. The airport’s construction began in March 2019.
The Chairman of WAPDA, Secretary of Planning and Development, KP, Chairman of the Gwadar Port Authority, Director General of the Gwadar Development Authority, and other concerned parties provided the Committee with updates on the Chashma Right Bank Canal (CRBC), D.I. Khan, and the compliance report on the recommendations made by the Committee in its previous meeting on March 20, 2021, in Gwadar. The project to build the Pak-China Technical & Vocational Institute would be finished in December 2021.
To create a comprehensive curriculum for the institute, the Gwadar Port Authority is also engaging with NAVTTC, TEVTA, and Chinese experts. The Committee made the observation that the curriculum should be designed in such a way that there must not be any discrepancy between the skills necessary and those provided in the institute. Aside from Sadaqat Ali Khan Abbasi, other members of parliament included Umar Aslam Khan, Mir Khan Muhammad Jamali, Nafeesa Inayatullah Khan Khattak, Ghous Bux Khan Mahar, Murtaza Javed Abbasi, Mehnaz Akber Aziz, Raza Rabani Khar, Zahid Akram Durrani, Senator Khalida Ateeb, and Umar Aslam Khan.
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