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Environmental Impact Assessment of reconstruction of berth 15-17A including SRB’s-1 2 on East Wharves at Karachi Port Final Report May 2010 Marine Pollution Control Department Karachi Port Trust KarachiExecutive Summary The Karachi Port Trust (KPT) has planned to undertake the reconstruction of berths 15-17A and Ship Repair Berth’s (SBR’s) on East Wharves at the port of Karachi. The project aims to provide optimum marine terminal facilities for cargo handling, forecasted import and export cargo for the next thirty years for the Karachi Port and replacement of non-operational berths 15-17A and SRB’s 1 2. The project, on completion, will provide 922 m of modern, efficient and high throughput multipurpose cargo handling berths, capable of accommodating bulk vessels of 100,000 DWT with a draft of 15.5 m, container vessels of 13.5 m draft and Ro-ro Car carriers, which will be visiting the port in forecast future. The project will eliminate otherwise waiting time for ships and yield savings in marine transport costs. The KPT considered three alternatives for the project i.e., relocation of the berths to idle part of the harbour, an increase in the handling capacity of other operational berths to compensate for the loss due to unavailability of these berths, and deepening of harbour channel for accommodating more ships at the existing berths. However, these alternatives were not feasible due to a number of reasons as elaborated in the report and reconstructions of existing berths were found to be technically, environmentally and economically best option. At the East Wharves, berths 1-9 are operational, 10-14 are under construction, 15-17 A and SRB’s 1 2 are non-operational as these are old and in dangerous condition which are to be reconstructed under the project. The reconstruction of berths 15-17A and SRB 1 2 on East Wharves at Karachi Port project includes the following: Construction of approximately 922 m of continuous 2 m diameter concrete piled quay wall