ISLAMABAD: Petroleum group and coal exports from the country during the first two months of current financial year registered an increase of 53.53 percent as compared to the same period of last year.
Petroleum products worth US$ 194.982 million exported during the period from July-August, 2014 as compared to the exports of US$ 127.00 million of corresponding period of last year, said the data of Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS).
During the period under review about 66,864 metric tons of petroleum crude worth US$ 53.728 million exported which were recorded 100 percent increase when it compared with the same period of last year.
Meanwhile, the petroleum products witnessed increase of 185.76 percent as petroleum products exports reached at US$ 15.388 million as against exports of US$ 5.385 million of same period of last year.
During the period under review, exports of petroleum top NAPHTA increased by 3.50 percent as about 127,500 metric tons of the above mention commodity worth US$ 125.866 million exported as compared to the same period of last year.
The data reveled that petroleum top NAPTHA exports during the first two months of last financial year were recorded at 139,700 metric tons valuing US$ 121.607 million.
However, exports of solid fuels (coal) remained on down track as its exports decreased by 100 percent during the first two months which was recorded at 45 metric tons.
According the provisional figures of PBS for the month of July-August, the exports of pharma products recorded 0.14 percent increase and about 1,821 metric tons of pharma products valuing US$ 26.24 million exported as compared to exports of US$ 26.40 million of same period last year.
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