The Ministry of Maritime Affairs ( ur, ), previously known as the Ministry of Ports and Shipping, is a Federal Ministry of the

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. The current Minister for Maritime Affairs is Faisal Subzwari and the current Federal Secretary for Maritime Affairs is Mathar Niaz Rana. The Ministry is headquartered in

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and its main attached departments are in the port city of

Karachi Karachi (; ur, ; ; ) is the most populous city in Pakistan and 12th most populous city in the world, with a population of over 20 million. It is situated at the southern tip of the country along the Arabian Sea coast. It is the former cap ...

Hierarchy

The Ministry is headed by the

Maritime Secretary of Pakistan The Maritime Secretary of Pakistan, also referred to as Ports and Shipping Secretary, is the Federal Secretary for the Ministry of Maritime Affairs. The position holder is a BPS-22 grade officer, usually belonging to the Pakistan Administrati ...

. Keeping in view its close links with the seaports, a division of the Ministry of Maritime Affairs is established in Karachi which includes a number of attached departments/organisations each headed by a high-grade civil servant or bureaucrat.

Wings and attached departments

Government Shipping Office The Government Shipping Office ( ur, ) is an agency in the Government of Pakistan that registers and manages sailors in the Pakistan Merchant Navy. The Government Shipping Office was first established in 1923 under the Merchant Shipping Act. It w ...

Karachi Port Trust The Karachi Port Trust (KPT) ( ur, ) is a Pakistani federal government agency under the administrative control of the Federal Maritime Secretary that oversees the operations of the Port of Karachi, one of South Asia's largest and busiest de ...

Korangi Fish Harbour Korangi Fish Harbour is located in Chashma Goth, Deh Rehri, Korangi District, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. It is managed by Federal Ministry of Maritime Affairs, Government of Pakistan. The purpose for establishment of KoFHA was to exploit deep sea ...

Marine Fisheries Department The Marine Fisheries Department (MFD) ( ur, ) is a department of the Government of Pakistan. It is part of the Ministry of Maritime Affairs (Pakistan). See also * Fisheries Research and Training Institute, Lahore Pakistan References ''Review of t ...

*Mercantile Marine Department *

Pakistan Marine Academy Pakistan Marine Academy (PMA) ( ur, ) is located at Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. It is a Seafarers Training Academy, working under Federal Ministry of Maritime Affairs, Government of Pakistan as an autonomous department. It is affiliated with N ...

Pakistan National Shipping Corporation The Pakistan National Shipping Corporation (PNSC) is a Pakistani national flag carrier and is one of Government of Pakistan's most profitable state-owned entities, most recently having recorded its highest ever profit of PKR 5.6 billion under the ...

Gwadar Port Authority The Gwadar Port ( ur, ) is situated on the Arabian Sea at Gwadar in Balochistan province of Pakistan and is under the administrative control of the Maritime Secretary of Pakistan and operational control of the China Overseas Port Holding Com ...

Port Qasim Authority The Port Muhammad Bin Qasim ( ur, ''Bandar-gāh Muhammad bin Qāsim''), or Qasim Port Authority ( ur, ), also known as Port Qasim, is a deep-water seaport in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan, on the coastline of the Arabian Sea under the administra ...

*Ports and Shipping Wing, Karachi

History

*Before 2004, Ports and Shipping was a subject and part of the

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. *In 2004, the Ministry of Ports and Shipping emerged as a separate and independent Federal Ministry of the

. *In October 2017, the Ministry was again restructured and renamed as Ministry of Maritime Affairs.

Role of Ministry

The Ministry officials look over the administrative and policy matters of the Federal Ministry including policies, procedures, rules and regulations. Apart from that, the attached wings and departments established in Karachi deal with their respective domains under the administration of the Federal Ministry of Maritime Affairs.

References

External links

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Official Site of Government Shipping Office

Official Site of Pakistan Marine Academy

Official Site of Pakistan National Shipping Corporation

Official Site of Port Qasim Authority

Official Site of Karachi Port Trust

Official Site of Gawadar Port Authority
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