Karachi Port traffic crisis persists a week after transport strike ends

Even a week after the end of the goods transporters' 10-day strike, the movement of import and export containers from various container terminals at Karachi Port has not returned to normal. According to Sheikh Waqas Anjum, General Secretary of the Karachi Customs Agents Association, the arrival of thousands of consignments that remained stuck at the port during the strike onto city roads has exposed serious weaknesses in the traffic management system. With the influx of cargo trucks, traffic pressure has increased not only on the roads surrounding the port, but congestion has also reached alarming levels on major heavy-traffic routes, including Keamari, Gulbai and Mauripur.