Karachi, December 17, 2025 — Pakistan’s goods transporters on Wednesday ended their week-long wheel jam strike after successful negotiations with the government, following acceptance of key demands aimed at easing cargo movement across major ports and highways.
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Business community demands urgent resolution to transporters’ strike
Karachi, December 16, 2025 — Pakistan’s business and industrial community has called on the government for an immediate and decisive solution to the ongoing transporters’ strike, warning that prolonged disruption is inflicting massive losses on trade, industry and the national economy.
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Minister dispatches delegation to resolve goods transporters’ strike
Islamabad, December 15, 2025 — Federal Minister for Communications Abdul Aleem Khan has directed a high-level delegation to engage with the Pakistan Goods Transport Alliance (PGTA) in a bid to resolve the ongoing goods transporters’ strike, which has entered its eighth consecutive day and is disrupting economic activity across the country.
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Goods Transporters Strike Halts Port Operations
Karachi, April 17, 2025 – The strike launched by the Goods Transporters Association against the suspension of vehicles under the pretext of fitness inspections continued for a second day on Thursday, bringing port operations in Karachi to a grinding halt.
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Transporters Demand Uniform Enforcement of Axle Load Limit to Prevent Overloading Incidents
Karachi, October 15, 2023 – Transporters across Pakistan are calling for the consistent and rigorous implementation of an axle load limit to prevent accidents caused by overloading.
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Exporters missing shipping deadline due to strike
KARACHI: All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) on Wednesday said exporters are missing shipment deadline due to transporters’ strike.
The APTMA in a statement said that the recent strike by the transport sector is going to impact exports significantly as there are no empty containers are available in upcountry for exports.
APTMA spokesman said that as a result of unavailability of empty containers in upcountry due to strike of transport sector, exporters are missing shipment deadlines.
One additional factor that is a major cause of the scarcity of containers is the large number of orders that have been received from China after the effectiveness of the Phase II of the Free Trade Agreement between China and Pakistan.
APTMA Spokesman further said that even if the containers were to be dispatched from Karachi today they would take 3 days to reach upcountry where exporters have already have had 2 days without containers; effectively a further week of exports would have been delayed/lost.
Under these circumstances, we request the government to take immediate action for resolving the issue so that no more exporting deadlines are missed.