Business & Finance

Shipping Activity at Port Qasim    

Published April 6, 2018 Updated April 6, 2018 02:07pm

Ten ships namely, Tempanos, White Fin, Iris-T, GH Citation, Navios Achilles, Maritime Setoshio, AL-Shumail, YM Miranda, Gaschem Pacific and NCC Maha are currently occupying PQA berths to load/offload Containers, Clinker, Project cargo, coal, Chemicals, LNG and Palm oil respectively during last 24 hours.

A cargo volume of 91,307 tonnes, comprising 42,692 tonnes import cargo and 48,615 tonnes export cargo inclusive of containerized cargo carried in 1,937 Containers (TEUs), (428 TEUs imports and 1,509 TEUs exports) Was handled at the Port during last 24 hours.

Three ships,Tempanos, NCC Maha and Gaschem Pacific sailed out to sea on Friday morning, while two more ships AL-Shumail and Navios Achilles are expected to sail on same day in the afternoon.

A total of seven ships, Express Rome, CMA CGM Virginia, GH Chinook, Pacific Talent, NCC Tabuk, Loch Nevis and Al-Soor-II carrying Containers, Palm Oil Coal and Diesel Oil are expected to take berths at QICT, MW-1, LCT, PIBT and Expected and FOTCO respectively on Friday. while container ships Virgo, northern Power and CMA CGM Attila are due to arrive at Port Qasim on Saturday and Prosper is due to arrive on Sunday.

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