The Karachi Port handled 91,490 tonnes of cargo comprising1 71,071 tonnes of import cargo and 20,419 tonnes of export cargo including 4,101 loaded & empty containers during last 24 hours ended at 0700 hours on Friday. The total import cargo of 71,071 tonnes comprised of 34,606 tonnes of containerised cargo; 372 tonnes of general cargo; 29,093 tonnes of bulk cargo: 17,000 tonnes of coal; 7,238 tonnes of canola seeds; 4,855 tonnes of DAP and 7,000 tonnes of oil/liquid cargo.
The total export cargo of 20,419 tonnes comprised of 18,490 tonnes of containerised cargo; 1,929 tonnes of bulk cargo: 118 tonnes of wheat and 1,445 tonnes of rice. Six ships namely Tessa, Santa Belina, Bow Victor, Chemroute Sky, Mediterranean Highway and Sunset with two container ships, two oil tankers, one vehicles carrier and one general cargo ship respectively sailed out to sea during the reported period.
Seven vessels viz Felicitas Rickmers, Lt. Trieste, APL Brisbane, Nadeem, Avra, Mediterranean Highway and Alam Bakti with three container ships, two bulk cargo ships, one oil tanker and one car carrier respectively are currently at the berths.
Two ships namely APL Brisbane and Topaz-II carrying one container ship and one coal carrier respectively sailed out to sea on Friday, while four ships namely Felicitas Rickmers, Lt. Trieste, Spar Orion and Pacific Embolden with two container ships, one coal carrier and one DAP carrier are expected to sail on Saturday.
Two vessels viz APL Sharjah and OOCL Dalian with two container ships due to arrive on Friday, while four vessels viz Greenwich Bridge, Sea Miror, Se Pelagica and Azalea Galaxy with one container ship, one coal carrier, one project cargo ship and one base oil tanker respectively are due to arrive on Saturday.