The Karachi Port handled 134,178 tonnes of cargo comprising 83,773 tonnes of import cargo and 50,405 tonnes of export cargo including 6,011 loaded and empty containers during the last 24 hours ending at 0700 hours on Tuesday. The total import cargo of 83,773 tonnes comprised of 38,834 tonnes of containerised cargo; 2,094 tonnes of bulk cargo; 9,912 tonnes of coal; 6,027 tonnes of soyabean meal; 12,906 tonnes of DAP and 14,000 tonnes of oil/liquid cargo.
The total export cargo of 50,405 tonnes comprised of 40,112 tonnes of containerised cargo; 1,348 tonnes of bulk cargo; 595 tonnes of wheat and 8,350 tonnes of oil/liquid cargo. As many as 6,011 containers comprising of 3,382 containers import and 2,629 containers export were handled during the last 24 hours on Tuesday.
The breakup of imported containers shows 564 of 20's and 1,286 of 40's loaded while 02 of 20's and 122 of 40's empty containers, whereas that of exported containers shows 1,094 of 20's and 577 of 40's loaded containers while 105 of 20's and 138 of 40's empty containers were handled during the business hours.
There were seven ships namely OOCL Shanghai, Hyundai Global, FPMC-17, Sunlight Lily, New Victory, Glovis Prime and Semela carrying containers, oil tanker, rock phosphate, DAP, vehicle and general cargo respectively sailed out to sea during the reported period. There were twelve vessels viz. Long Beach Trader, Cape Male, Kota Lawa, Athens Bridge, MS Tiger, Houston Express, Pacific Julia, Asphalt Ten, MT Lahore, Glovis Prime, Semela and KSL Heng Yang carrying containers, oil tankers, vehicle and general cargo respectively currently at the berths.
A cargo volume of 167,653 tonnes comprising 136,547 tonnes of import cargo and 31,106 tonnes of export cargo including 2,750 loaded and empty containers (TEUs) was handled at Port Qasim during the last 24 hours on Tuesday. The total import cargo of 136,547 tonnes includes 40,180 tonnes of diesel oil; 6,200 tonnes of palm oil; 38,083 tonnes of coal; 4,242 tonnes of soyabean seeds; 13,800 tonnes of LNG; 9,260 tonnes of phosphoric acid; 1,298 tonnes of bitumen and 23,484 tonnes of containerised cargo.
The total export cargo of 31,106 tonnes includes; 2,340 tonnes of wheat and 28,766 tonnes of containerised cargo. As many as 2,750 containers comprising of 1,236 containers import and 1,514 containers export were handled during the last 24 hours on Tuesday.
There was one ship namely MT Maran Gas Mystres carrying LNG sailed out to sea on Tuesday morning, while four ships namely CV Mediterranean Bridge, CV Sea Span Oceania, MV Inlaco Bright and MV Sea Lavender carrying containers, wheat and coal respectively are expected to sail on the same day afternoon.
A total number of eleven vessels viz. CV Mediterranean Bridge, CV Sea Span Oceania, MV Inlaco Bright, MV Reem-5, MV Thassos, MV Darya Mahyesh, MV Sea Lavender, MV Hyde Park, MT Maran Gas Mystres, MT Glorious and MT Sino Energy-8 were currently occupied berths to load/offload containers, wheat, soyabean seeds, coal, phosphoric acid, LNG, diesel oil and palm oil respectively during the last 24 hours.
As many as fifteen ships namely CV APL Miami, MV Maersk Pearl, MV Navios Centarus, MV Avalon, MV Valadon, MV Coventry, MV YM Miranda, MT Maria-III, MT Gas Amazon, MT Totonno Bottiglieri, MT Sovereign, MT Komome Victoria, MT Al-Soor-II, MT Jo Pinari and MT Manuela Boligliri carrying containers, condensate, soyabean, canola seeds, chemical, LPG, furnace oil, diesel oil and palm oil respectively were at the outer anchorage of Port Qasim during the last 24 hours.
There were five vessels viz. CV APL Miami, CV Maersk Denver, MV YM Miranda, MT Gas Amazon and MT Manuela Boligliri carrying containers, chemical, LPG and palm oil expected to take berths at Qasim International Containers Terminal, Engro Vopak Terminal, SSGC LPG Terminal and Liquid Cargo Terminal respectively on Tuesday. There were four ships namely CV MSC Sindy, CV Yun Jing, CV Maersk Denver and MV MOL Grandeur carrying containers and coal respectively due to arrive on Tuesday.
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