{"id":70268,"date":"2020-09-10T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=70268"},"modified":"2020-09-09T17:05:29","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T12:05:29","slug":"cabinet-allows-maritime-ministry-start-ferry-services-global-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/cabinet-allows-maritime-ministry-start-ferry-services-global-travel.html","title":{"rendered":"Cabinet allows Maritime Ministry to start ferry services for global travel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lahore: Minister for Maritime Affairs Ali Zaidi on Tuesday stated that the federal cabinet had provided its approval to the ministry to initiate local ferry services for reaching various global destinations, a news source reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ministry-of-maritime-affairs-finalises-blue-economy-policy-to-revitalise-shipping-sector.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ministry of Maritime Affairs finalises \u2018Blue Economy Policy\u2019 to revitalise shipping sector<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The minister highlighted that in line with Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan\u2019s vision of Blue Economy, the cabinet had allowed the Maritime Ministry to open its frontiers for sea travel via passenger ferry services. He added that the service aimed to provide low-cost transportation facilities to Pakistani passengers seeking travel by sea to different countries; including the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Saudi Arabia, and other Gulf countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the details shared, it could take a couple of years to start the ferry services due to non-availability of licensed ships at the moment. Sources revealed that with the government financing Pakistan National Shipping Corporation (PNSC) \u2013 the operator of the initiative \u2013 the service was likely to begin at the earliest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pm-directs-maritime-affairs-ministry-complete-gwadar-port-projects-priority.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PM directs Maritime Affairs Ministry to complete Gwadar Port projects on priority<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As per the plan revealed, the ferry service would start from local routes of Karachi to Gwadar during the project\u2019s first phase. It would later be expanded to include international routes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: Minister for Maritime Affairs Ali Zaidi on Tuesday stated that the federal cabinet had provided its approval to the ministry to initiate local ferry services for reaching various global destinations, a news source reported. Read: Ministry of Maritime Affairs finalises \u2018Blue Economy Policy\u2019 to revitalise shipping sector The minister highlighted that in line with Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan\u2019s vision of Blue Economy, the cabinet had allowed the Maritime Ministry to open its frontiers for sea travel via passenger ferry services. He added that the service aimed to provide low-cost transportation facilities to Pakistani passengers seeking travel by sea to different countries; including the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Saudi Arabia, and other Gulf countries. According to the details shared, it could take a couple of years to start the ferry services due to non-availability of licensed ships at the moment. Sources revealed that with the government financing Pakistan National Shipping Corporation (PNSC) \u2013 the operator of the initiative \u2013 the service was likely to begin at the earliest. Read: PM directs Maritime Affairs Ministry to complete Gwadar Port projects on priority As per the plan revealed, the ferry service would start from local routes of Karachi to Gwadar during&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":64102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15012,15017,15167],"tags":[38991],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-70268","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allied-industries","8":"category-notices-announcements","9":"category-tourism","10":"tag-details-on-cabinet-allows-maritime-ministry-to-start-ferry-services-for-global-travel","11":"cat-15012-id","12":"cat-15017-id","13":"cat-15167-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Maritime Ministry ferry services for global travel - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Maritime Minister Ali Zaidi stated that the federal cabinet had approved the ministry to start ferry services for reaching various global destinations.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/cabinet-allows-maritime-ministry-start-ferry-services-global-travel.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Maritime Ministry ferry services for global travel - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Maritime Minister Ali Zaidi stated that the federal cabinet had approved the ministry to start ferry services for reaching various global destinations.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/cabinet-allows-maritime-ministry-start-ferry-services-global-travel.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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