Activities at Karachi and Qasim ports

The Karachi Port handled 176,275 tonnes of cargo comprising 146,404 tonnes of import cargo and 29,871 tonnes of export cargo including 6,791 loaded and empty containers during the last 24 hours ending at 0700 hours on Wednesday. The total import cargo of 146,404 tonnes comprised of 50,437 tonnes of containerised cargo; 19,109 tonnes of general cargo; 46,251 tonnes of bulk cargo: 37,000 tonnes of coal; 6,714 tonnes of DAP; 2,537 tonnes of rock phosphate and 30,607 tonnes of oil/liquid cargo.
The total export cargo of 29,871 tonnes comprised of 23,321 tonnes of containerised cargo and 6,550 tonnes of oil/liquid cargo. As many as 6,791 containers comprising of 3,488 containers import and 3,303 containers export were handled during the last 24 hours on Wednesday.
The breakup of imported containers shows 1,142 of 20's and 963 of 40's loaded while nil of 20's and 210 of 40's empty containers, whereas that of exported containers shows 587 of 20's and 383 of 40's loaded containers while 534 of 20's and 708 of 40's empty containers were handled during the business hours.
There were five ships namely MYK Furano, Hammonia Virginia, MT Shalamar, Bunga Laurel and Mohar carrying containers, oil tanker, chemical and coal respectively sailed out to sea during the reported period. There were seven vessels viz. Taroko, Ever Diamond, MT Quetta, Sea Crystal, Asprouda, Ikan Pandan and Storm Rider carrying containers, oil tanker, soyabean meal and general cargo respectively currently at the berths.
There were two ships namely Vecchio Bridge and IVS Gleneagles carrying containers and coal respectively sailed out to sea on Wednesday, while three ships namely Kota Karim, Sea Crystal and MT Quetta carrying containers and oil tankers respectively are expected to sail on Thursday.
There were three vessels viz. MT Lahore, CTG Bismuth and Al Yasat-II carrying oil tanker, chemical and rock phosphate respectively due to arrive on Wednesday while two vessels viz. Wan Hai-511 and DL Clover carrying containers and chemical respectively are due to arrive on Thursday.

PORT QASIMA cargo volume of 167,431 tonnes comprising 159,394 tonnes of import cargo and 8,037 tonnes of export cargo including 3,501 loaded and empty containers (TEUs) was handled at Port Qasim during the last 24 hours on Wednesday.
The total import cargo of 159,394 tonnes includes 29,477 tonnes of furnace oil; 16,980 tonnes of palm oil; 45,000 tonnes of LNG; 950 tonnes of LPG; 4,127 tonnes of clinker; 4,000 tonnes of chemical; 378 tonnes of project cargo and 58,482 tonnes of containerised cargo. The total export cargo of 8,037 tonnes includes 8,037 tonnes of containerised cargo. As many as 3,501 containers comprising of 3,078 containers import and 423 containers export were handled during the last 24 hours on Wednesday.
There were three ships namely MT Umm Bab, MV CTG Bismuth and MV BBC Africa carrying LNG, chemical and general cargo respectively sailed out to sea on Wednesday morning, while another ship namely MT Maritime Dinar carrying edible oil is expected to sail on the same day.
A total number of nine vessels viz. CV Maersk Kinloss, CV UASC Al Khor, MV Zealand Driane, MV BBC Africa, MV CTG Bismuth, MT North Gas, MT Umm Bab, MT Brizo and MT Maritime Dinar currently occupied berths to load/offload containers, clinker, general cargo, chemical, LPG, LNG, furnace oil and palm oil respectively during the last 24 hours.
As many as twelve ships namely MV Zhe Hua-15, MT Black Pearl, MT Maria-III, MT Truck Gas, MT Nordic Gas, MT Gas Lion, MT Al-Soor-II, MT Distya Amiya, MT Ashada, MT Arietis, MT Brizo, Pacific Energy and MT Limp Galaxy carrying barges, LPG, diesel oil, furnace oil and palm oil respectively were at the outer anchorage of Port Qasim during the last 24 hours.
There were three vessels viz. CV Maersk Surabaya, MT Black Pearl-110 and MT Limp Galaxy carrying containers, LPG and palm oil expected to take berths at Qasim International Containers Terminal, SSGC LPG Terminal and Liquid Cargo Terminal respectively on Wednesday. There were ten ships namely CV MSC Elma, CV Maersk Surabaya, CV Atacama, CV Uni Florida, MV FPMCP Fortune, MV Clipper Viking, MV Astraea, MV Prime, MT Maran Posidonia and MT Bneider carrying containers, chemical, canola seeds, steel coil, LNG and diesel oil respectively due to arrive on Wednesday.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2017