In December, some 48 GEMC garbage trucks and sprinklers were delivered from Lanzhou, Northwest China to Karachi. This batch of sanitation equipment, manufactured by Gansu Construction Investment Heavy Industry Technology Co., Ltd (GCIHIT), is part of the Korangi end-to-end urban solid waste collection and transportation procurement project in Karachi.
GCIHIT won the bid for Korangi’s solid waste management project in July this year. With a cooperation period of nine years, the project covers the application of smart sanitation cloud platform, urban waste collection and transportation services, etc.
Pakistan has long suffered from alarming environmental problems due to its lack of infrastructure for waste management. According to Pakistani media Dawn.com, trolleys and donkey carts have played a vital role in the management of Karachi’s solid waste. And most of the solid waste in Pakistan is still managed by marginalized and unrecognized communities that collect garbage at household levels.
In addition, trucks and tractors are the only means of transportation used in Pakistan. In order to change this situation, the project will successively introduce more than 400 sets of specialized machinery and equipment. “GEMC cloud platform will comprehensively manage the people, vehicles, cases, and objects of the project, and help Karachi implement end-to-end and door-to-door garbage collection and transportation services,” told Wu Fan, who works as the assistant to chairman and...
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