LAHORE, Jan 15: Railway authorities have started improving the Karachi-Quetta-Chaman section expecting a great commercial activity on the route in the near future.

Four recently rehabilitated locomotives have already been earmarked and sleepers of the track have been replaced. Rolling stock from other sections is also being diverted  to it.

Lt-Gen Saeeduz Zafar (retired), the Railway chairman, visited the Quetta dry port on Monday where facilities are being improved in view of the expected increase in freight traffic. The dry port authorities have added a track to the two already operational. The port can now handle up to 90 wagons a day.

Gen Zafar was told that the dry port would get the facilities it needed by the middle of the current year.

Earlier, the railway chairman met railway officers and directed railway police to ensure that there was no connivance in the department with smugglers.