Atlas Corridor
Component

Port Qasim 2x660 MW Coal-Fired Power Project

power

Cities

Karachi
Pakistan

Cost

$2b
$2,000,000,000

Phases

operational, 2018

Objective

Description

Port Qasim Power Project consists of two 660 megawatt supercritical coal power plants and is located on 330. 7 acres of land at Port Qasim, 37 kilometres east of Karachi. The plants were built on a “build-own-operate” basis through a consortium of Qatari and Chinese companies. 

Capacities

1320 MW electricity

Finance

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$1600000000 loan
Exim Bank of China Development bank

Operators

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Sinohydro
Company
Al Mirqab Group
Company

Contractors

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Sinohydro
Company
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China Communications Construction Company, Ltd.
Company