KARACHI: The Karachi Port Trust handled 127,314 tonnes of cargo comprising 105,310 tonnes of import cargo and 22,004 tonnes of export cargo during last 24 hours, ending at 0700 hours.
The total import cargo of 105,310 tonnes comprised of 57,898 tonnes of Containerized Cargo,28,047 tonnes of B Bulk Cargo,899 tonnes of Chickpeas,7,051 tonnes of Sony Bean Seeds, & 9,550 tonnes of Liquid Cargo.
The total export cargo of 22,004 tonnes comprised of 16,013 tonnes of Containerized Cargo, 121 tonnes of B Bulk Cargo, 3,395 tonnes of Cement,469 tonnes of Rice,& 2,006 tonnes of Liquid Cargo.
Around, 10 ships namely Jkmtc Colombo, Race, Fairchem Pathfinder, Hmm Colombo, Araya Bhum, Hui Fa, Xiang Yu, Wan Hai 316, & Sliver Ervilia berthed at the Karachi Port Trust.
Approximately, 05 ships namely, Camellia 8, Jira Bhum, Xin Fu Zhou, Bbg Ocean & Araya Bhum sailed from the Karachi Port Trust.
PORT QASIM
A total of eleven ships were engaged at PQA berths during the last 24 hours, out of them a containers ship ‘Spirit of Bertram’ left the port on Thursday morning, while six more ships, Trans Asia, Joseph, Navision Vincentiz, Fortuo, Unity Maria and Hansa Africa are expected to sail on Thursday.
Cargo volume of172,886 tonnes, comprising 118,372 tonnes imports cargo and54,514 export cargocarried in 5,248 Containers (2,262 TEUs Imports & 2,986 TEUs Export) was handled at the port during last 24 hours.
There are 13 ships at Outer Anchorage of the Port Qasim, out of them six ships, MSC Susanna, Mohammad-M, Sea Ray, Ando Meda, Al-Diab-II and Benue scheduled to load/offload Container, Polymers Bags, Palm oil, Rice, LPG and LNG are expected to take berths at QICT, MW-2, LCT, FAP, EVTL and PGPCL on Thursday1st January, 2026.
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