Power outages: Leather industry fears losses in millions

Pakistan Tanners Association feared losses in millions due to severe load shedding.

KARACHI: Pakistan Tanners Association (PTA) South Zone Chairman M Khurshid Ahmed said that losses of hundreds of millions of rupees are feared in the tannery zone in Korangi Industrial Area due to severe load shedding at this juncture when the tanneries are required to work full-time due to high season as they are tanning hides and skins after the procurement of raw material after Eidul Azha. The export oriented leather sector has sent an SOS to the federal government to save the industry from collapse due to massive load shedding resorted by Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) in industrial areas, according to a press statement on Tuesday.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 23^rd, 2011.