The Karachi Port handled 180,003 tonnes of cargo comprising 145,156 tonnes of import cargo and 34,847 tonnes of export cargo including 7,309 loaded and empty containers during the last 24 hours ending at 0700 hours on Friday. The total import cargo of 145,156 tonnes comprised of 62,201 tonnes of containerised cargo; 11,471 tonnes of general cargo; 15,984 tonnes of bulk cargo: 3,769 tonnes of soyabean seeds; 12,215 tonnes of fertilizer and 55,500 tonnes of oil/liquid cargo.
The total export cargo of 34,847 tonnes comprised of 33,080 tonnes of containerised cargo; 967 tonnes of general cargo and 800 tonnes of oil/liquid cargo. As many as 7,309 containers comprising of 4,030 containers import and 3,279 containers export were handled during the last 24 hours on Friday.
The breakup of imported containers shows 1,751 of 20's and 1,076 of 40's loaded while 01 of 20's and 63 of 40's empty containers, whereas that of exported containers shows 982 of 20's and 372 of 40's loaded containers while 581 of 20's and 486 of 40's empty containers were handled during the business hours. There were seven ships namely Hansa Offenburg, Ever Divine, Hyundai Faith, Ever Rich-1, MT Shalamar, Yasa Ilhan and Industrial Eagle carrying containers, oil tankers, coal and general cargo respectively sailed out to sea during the reported period.
There were seven vessels viz. Wan Hai-501, Clemens Schulte, MSC Tasmania, MT Karachi, FPMC P Eagle, Fairchem Sword and Balaban carrying containers, oil tankers and general cargo respectively currently at the berths. There were three ships namely MSC Tasmania, YM Cypress and Dato Lucky carrying containers and general cargo respectively sailed out to sea on Friday.
There were five vessels APL Austria, UAFL Zanzibar, Xin Chang Shu, Green Belt and Vindonissa carrying containers, oil tanker and coal respectively due to arrive on Friday, while six vessels viz. CMA CGM Georgia, Prosper, Libra, Cape Bird, Geum Gang and Xing Rong Hai carrying containers, oil tankers and DAP respectively are due to arrive on Saturday.
The total import cargo of 44,304 tonnes includes 18,004 tonnes of palm oil; 2,027 tonnes of sunflower seeds; 2,450 tonnes of soyabean; 3,000 tonnes of chemical; 2,882 tonnes of LPG and 15,941 tonnes of containerised cargo. The total export cargo of 18,183 tonnes includes 18,183 tonnes of containerised cargo.
As many as 1,796 containers comprising of 839 containers import and 957 containers export were handled during the last 24 hours on Friday. There were two ships namely CV CMA CGM Indus and MV Trade Will carrying containers and sunflower seeds respectively sailed out to sea on Friday morning, while two ships namely MV YM Miranda and MT White Purl carrying chemical and LPG respectively are expected to sail on the same day afternoon.
A total number of six vessels viz. CV CMA CGM Indus, MV Trade Will, MV Medi Chiba, MV YM Miranda, MT White Purl and MT Horizon currently occupied berths to load/offload containers, sunflower seeds, soyabean seeds, chemical, LPG and palm oil respectively during the last 24 hours. As many as fourteen ships namely CV Uni Florida, CV Tempanos, MV Daje, MV Sakzaya Miracle, MV Diyaa-B, MT Maria-III, MT Gaslog Greece, MT Quetta, MT United Banner, MT Al-Salam-II, MT Alpine Penelope, MT Bahra, MT Sachem Singapora and MT Fortune Era carrying containers, project cargo, canola seeds, clinker, LPG, LNG, furnace oil, diesel oil and palm oil respectively were at the outer anchorage of Port Qasim during the last 24 hours.
There were four vessels viz. CV Uni Florida, CV Tempanos, MT Bahra and MT Fortune Era carrying containers, diesel oil and palm oil respectively expected to take berths at Qasim International Containers Terminal, FOTCO Oil Terminal and Liquid Oil Terminal respectively on Friday. There were six ships namely CV Prosper, CV APL Maimi, CV MSC Joanna, CV MSC Austria, MV Zi Jing Song and MT Adafera carrying containers, project cargo and crude oil respectively due to arrive on Friday.
There are two ships namely CV APL Austria and CV Cape Mayor carrying containers respectively due to arrive on Saturday.
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