Food-Choked Ports Are a Drag on Pakistan’s Exporters

Pakistan’s rush to import items to tame Asia’s fastest inflation is clogging the nation’s busiest ports and is hiding something else in plain sight — exporters’ pain.

Snaking traffic jams of trucks on the British-era Napier Mole road, which connects the commercial capital of Karachi to the nation’s biggest port, have come to define the struggle of traders in shipping non-food goods. The reason: Vessels bringing in food grains and sugar have left little room for any other carriers to berth.