![]() ![]() ![]() The success of dredging, which is now the only short-term solution to restore Gwadar Port’s depth, is mostly dependent on the amount of sediments carried to the sea by Pakistan’s river system. Aside from dredging, one option was to minimise the quantity of silt delivered into the port by the Indus River, create seawalls to protect the port from flooding, and plant trees to assist stabilise the coastline. The authors of the study discovered that the sea level in the vicinity of Gwadar is increasing at a rate of roughly 3 millimetres per year, and that this is likely to accelerate in the future. Another study, published in 2021 in the journal *Environmental Science & Technology*, discovered that the port is also threatened by climate change. The authors of the study attributed this to a combination of natural forces, such as Indus River sediment transfer, and human actions, such as dredging and deforestation. Yes, the assertion is valid, and it is possible that this is one of the reasons why the Gwadar port has yet to emerge as a significant port in the region or all over the world.Īccording to one study, which was published in the journal *Marine Geology* in 2022, the port is losing depth at a rate of roughly 1.5 centimetres per year. This was such an eye-opening surprise that it prompted me to conduct further investigation on Maulana’s heartbreaking remarks. He stated that Gwadar, which we trumpeted all over the world as the deepest sea port in the region capable of harbouring mother ships, which no other port in the area or neighbouring countries could, is no longer as deep as we thought, having already lost its depth from 18 metres to 11 metres and continuing to lose depth even now, and thus no mother ship or even large ship could dock here. During a ceremony in Dera Ismail Khan on July 25th in the presence of the Prime Minister, Moulana Fazal ur Rehman made a stunning revelation about Gwadar port. ![]()
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