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Article: Industrial uplift: KSEW's contribution. (Karachi Shipyard and Engineering Works Limited)
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- Economic Review
- Article date:
- September 1, 1993
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For any newly-emerged country, establishment of heavy engineering base, acquisition and development of technologies and its dissemination into the industrial roots of the country is a stupendous task. When Pakistan came into existence, in 1947, there was no such heavy engineering base that could provide a take-off for the process of industrialisation. Aware of this fact, the then Government decided to establish a shipbuilding, ship repairing and heavy engineering workshop. The project was assigned to Pakistan Industrial Development Corporation (PIDC).
The first heavy engineering base of Pakistan named Karachi Shipyard & Engineering Works Limited (KSEW) was ...