Activity at Karachi and Qasim ports

The Karachi Port handled 94,488 tonnes of cargo comprising 55,877 tonnes of import cargo and 38,611 tonnes of export cargo including 4,514 loaded & empty containers during the last 24 hours ended at 0700 hours on Saturday. The total import cargo of 55,877 tonnes comprised 24,568 tonnes of containerised cargo and 31,309 tonnes of bulk cargo.
The total export cargo of 38,611 tonnes comprised 27,221 tonnes of containerised cargo; 3,300 tonnes of general cargo and 8,090 tonnes of oil/liquid cargo. As many as 4,514 containers comprising 2,242 containers import and 2,272 containers export were handled during the last 24 hours on Saturday.
The brakeup of imported containers shows 370 of 20's and 806 of 40's loaded while 260 of 20's and nil of 40's empty containers, whereas that of exported containers shows 706 of 20's and 419 of 40's loaded containers while 22 of 20's and 353 of 40's empty containers were handled during the business hours. Four ships with two container ships, one coal carrier and one oil tanker respectively sailed out to sea during the reported period. Three vessels with two container ships and one soyameal ship respectively are currently at the berths.

PORT QASIMA cargo volume of 101,583 tonnes comprising 70,081 tonnes of import cargo and 31,502 tonnes of export cargo inclusive 3,402 loaded & empty containers (TEUs) was handled at Port Qasim during the last 24 hours on Saturday.
The total import cargo of 70,081 tonnes includes 38,776 tonnes of diesel oil; 10,057 tonnes of coal; 3,138 tonnes of steel scrap and 18,110 tonnes of containerised cargo. The total export cargo of 31,502 tonnes includes 1,151 tonnes of rice; 3,208 tonnes of wheat and 27,143 tonnes of containerised cargo.
Two ships namely CV Lantau Arrow and MV Double Prosperity with containers and chemicals respectively sailed out to sea on Saturday morning. A total number of ten vessels viz CV MSC Jade, CV Lantau Arrow, MV Karadeniz-Friendship, MV DN Vatan, MV Leopard-B, MV Maha Deepa, MV Phutia-19, MV Beagle-III, MV Double Prosperity and MT Al-Salam-II are currently occupying berths to load/offload containers, rice, wheat, cement, steel scrap and diesel oil respectively during the last 24 hours.
As many as four ships namely Arietis, Cos Glory, Borkom and Al-Soor-II with oil tanker, canola seeds, general cargo and diesel oil respectively are currently at the outer anchorage of Port Qasim. Two vessels viz MV Borkom and MT Arietis with general cargo and diesel oil are expected to take berths at Multi Purpose Terminal (MW-3) and FOTCO Oil Terminal respectively on Saturday.
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