The day of February 10 was a landmark day at the FAP Terminal at Port Qasim when two vessels with a combined length of 350 meters were berthed simultaneously at its jetty. The 'KT ALBATROSS' was discharging oilseeds imported from Canada while the 'TRANSOCEAN' was loading wheat for export. The Terminal also broke its own single day unloading record by discharging 17,000 metric tons of oilseeds in 24 hours between February 11 and February 12.
The FAP Terminal, which was inaugurated on October 26, 2010, is Pakistan's first state of the art automatic dry bulk cargo handling and storage facility. Built on 9 Hectares of land reclaimed from the sea, the Terminal features automatic un-loaders with a combined capacity to discharge 1,600 metric tons of cargo per hour, deep-drafted berth, 120,000 metric tons of silos and warehouse storage and automatic bagging plants among other facilities.-PR