Pak, India to sign shipping protocol
From Zeeshan Mirza

Karachi—Pakistan and India would sign a revised protocol on shipping to remove constraints imposed by the earlier agreement on Thursday (today) and Federal Minister for Port and Shipping Senator Babar Khan Ghouri on Wednesday left for India for signing the new shipping protocol.
Talking to journalists before leaving for India, the minister declared that the signing of new shipping protocol would be ‘historical’ for both the countries. He elaborated that under the revised protocol ships of both countries could lift cargo for the respective countries from the ports of India and Pakistan.
He said that vessels of the two countries could lift cargo for other countries and other countries’ vessels also lift cargo between the two countries. It is to be mentioned here that under the existing shipping protocol, which was signed on 1975, there were restrictions on lifting of cargo between the two countries by third country vessels as well of lifting of third country cargo by vessels from both countries.