Activity at Karachi and Qasim ports

The Karachi Port handled 122,558 tonnes of cargo including 80,464 tonnes of import, 42,094 tonnes of export cargo and 3,679 loaded and empty containers (TEUs) during last 24 hours ending at 0700 hours on Wednesday.
The freights comprised of 96,458 tonnes of dry cargo including 58,273 tonnes of general cargo; 2,618 tonnes of fertiliser; 7,768 tonnes of wheat; 17,100 tonnes of coal; 10,699 tonnes of cement and 26,100 tonnes of oil/liquid cargo. Six ships namely Sari, Sinar Bintan, Bengal Orchid, Lalazar, Ocean Coral and Far Singapore sailed out to sea during the reported period.
Nine vessels viz Cape Negro, Sea Veteran, Lake Maja, Lily Noble, Far Singapore, Reovoung Prince, Hansa Liberty, Apl Cairo and Fusion-1 are currently at the berths. Three ships namely Cape Negro, Apl Cairo and Lily Noble expected to sail on Wednesday while another three vessels viz Hansa Liberty, Ocala and Red Sea Spirit are expected to sail on Thursday.
Five ships namely New Selukaze, Global Progress, Apl Chicago, Sea Bridge and Ramish due to arrive on Wednesday while another eight ships namely Maersk Rouen, Chemstar Brave, Soon Fu, Ym Initiative, Ibn Sina, Blida, Jin Cheng and Arcadia are due to arrive on Thursday.

PORT QASIMA total cargo volume of 81,072 tonnes including 61,131 tonnes of import 19,941 tonnes of export cargo and 1,702 containers (TEUs) was handled during last 24 hours on Wednesday. The cargoes comprised of 36,175 tonnes diesel oil; 2,539 tonnes LPG; 10,350 tonnes of palm oil; 1,331 tonnes of wheat; 4,745 tonnes of iron ore; 2,085 tonnes of cement; 2,781 tonnes rape seeds and 21,066 tonnes of containerised cargo.
Four vessels viz MV Shinyo Integrity, CV Maersk Damietta, MT St. Kitts and MT Al-Soor-II sailed out to sea during last 24 hours. A total of ten ships namely Acx Dahlia, Saudi Tabuk, Clipper Trinidad, Oak Galaxy, Karolina, Multi Trader, Nova Noor, Energy Falcon, Captain Markos and Nordiana-G carrying containers, crude oil, palm oil, iron ore and cement respectively are currently at the outer anchorage.
Eight vessels viz CV Maersk Damietta, MV Mustafa Bay, MV Melpomeni, MV Med Salvador, MT St. Kitts, MT St. Rilen, MT Al-Soor-II and MV Hellenic Horizon are currently occupying berths to load/offload containers, cement, wheat, rape seeds, chemicals, palm oil, diesel oil and iron Ore respectively during the report period. Two container ships namely Saudi Tabuk and ACX Dahlia are expected to take berths at Containers Terminal on Wednesday.
Five vessels viz MT Prem Pride, MT Vema Ocean, MT Eastern Tera, MV Xu Chang Hai and CV CMA CGM Kingston carrying crude oil, furnace oil, chemicals, rape seeds and containers due to arrive on Wednesday while another vessel viz MV Arcadia with rape seeds is due to arrive on Thursday. Four ships namely Force Ranger, Akmi, Toto and Pos Dignity carrying wheat and iron ore are also due to arrive.
Copyright Business Recorder, 2008