Construction of the New Gwadar International Airport has entered its second phase.
Construction of the much-awaited New Gwadar International Airport has entered its second phase, as the joint Pakistan and China project pushes towards completion.
The airport is located in Gurandani, some 26 kilometers northeast of the city of Gwadar in Balochistan. Its total cost is $230 million.
“In the second phase a permanent station is being built,” Zhang Baozhong, chairman of the China Overseas Port Holding Company Chairman (COPHC), told Geo.tv, “This will spur up development activities with full speed and momentum.”
Despite the outbreak of the deadly coronavirus, construction of the airport did not halt, he added, and the second phase has begun as per schedule.
The project is expected to be completed in three years’ time. After which, Baozhong explained, it would be the second-largest airport in Pakistan connecting Gwadar with the rest of the world.
Separately, Lieutenant General (retired) Asim Saleem Bajwa, the chairman of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor Authority, also tweeted about the historic development on May 7.