Special Assistant to the Prime Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Lt. Gen. (Retired) Asim Saleem Bajwa said Saturday that the first bulk cargo ship arrived in the port city of Gwadar.

The first bulk cargo ship called MV Manet transports wheat and urea as part of the Afghan transit trade, said the chairman of the China Pakistan Economic Corridor project.

A dream come true for the local economy as it will stimulate a great deal of business activity, SAPM said on Twitter.Due to the spread of the coronavirus, the Afghan transit trade has experienced occasional setbacks in the form of the border crossing being closed for some time.

In January this year, the Gwadar port began handling transit cargo destined for Afghanistan.The war-torn country adopted Pakistani land routes, the two ports of Karachi and the Qasim Port for International Trade after signing a bilateral agreement known as the Transit Trade Agreement for Afghanistan with Islamabad. .

CPEC is a group of projects currently under construction at a cost of more than $ 50 billion. Most of it will be spent to improve the country's energy capacity and about $ 12 billion in infrastructure projects.