Gwader Port

Gwader:- (Gawder Port)

The word "Gwadar" is a combination of two "Balochi" words-"Gwat" means wind and "Dar" means Gateway. so the meaning of Gwadar is "The Gateway of wind". A theory is that the name derived from the ancient name of Baluchistan, "Gedrosia", which was given by the Greeks to the arid area of southern Baluchistan. It is a port city on the southwestern coast of Balochistan, Pakistan. The city is located on the shores of the Arabian Sea, approximately 700 kilometres to the west of Pakistan's largest city, Karachi. Gwadar is near the border with Iran, and is located to the east of the Persian Gulf and opposite Oman.

Gwadar and its surrounding region were overseas possessions of the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman from 1783 until Pakistan purchased the territory September 8, 1958. Pakistan assumed control of the territory on December 8, 1958, and the territory was later integrated into Balochistan province on July 1, 1977, as Gwadar District.

In April 2015, Pakistan and China announced their intention to develop the $46 billion China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC),

[6] which in turn forms part of China's ambitious One Belt, One Road.[7] Gwadar features heavily in CPEC, and is also envisaged to be the link between the One Belt, One Road and Maritime Silk Road project.[8] $1.153 billion worth of infrastructure projects will be invested into the city as part of CPEC,[9] with the aim of linking northern Pakistan and western China to the deep water seaport.[10] The city will also be the site of a floating liquefied natural gas facility that will be built as part of the larger $2.5 billion Gwadar-Nawabshah

segment of the Iran–Pakistan gas pipeline project.[11] In addition to investments directly under the aegis of CPEC in Gwadar city, the China Overseas Port Holding Company in June 2016 began construction on the $2 billion Gwadar Special Economic Zone,[12] which is being modelled on the lines of the Special Economic Zones of China.[13] In September 2016 the Gwadar Development Authority published a request for tenders for the preparation of expropriation and resettlement of Old Town Gwadar.[14]