Reasons for location:

Near shipyard - import/exports to Arabian sea or East/West to Indian ocean (2.5 km seawater channel navigable by ships (kept navigable)
Raw materials - Port Qasim - iron ore, manganese, coking coal. Makli hills provide limestone by road. Lake Halejil (50 km East)- fresh water
Site - flat, cheap land, unused land near Charo Creek
USSR provided economic assistance (technical expertise, finance, capital)
Energy - Port Qasim - highest electricity generating capacity power in country (thermal station - 21%)
Labour - both skilled and unskilled in Karachi
Market -Steel-using industry (tool making), rest to rest of Pakistan (50% in Punjab --> factories established in 1979 with Chinese finance)
Transport - Karachi (Kotri railway), metalled roads connected Pipri to main road system

	Created by Jan Kowalski over 5 years ago

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