Activity at Karachi and Qasim ports

The Karachi Port handled 112,095 tonnes of cargo including 70,739 tonnes import and 41,356 tonnes export cargo including 3,943 empty and loaded containers during last 24 hours ending at 0700 hours on Saturday. The cargo comprised of 82,861 tonnes dry cargo including 52,831 tonnes containerised and general cargo; 5,558 tonnes DAP; 1,906 tonnes urea powder; 6,196 tonnes sunflower seeds; 3,100 tonnes steel scrap; 3,650 tonnes clinker; 9,620 tonnes cement and 29,234 tonnes oil/liquid cargo.
Nine ships namely CAP Gabriel, Arctic Bridge, Wan Hai-510, Golden Arrow-II, Ltc Calvin P. Titus, Samin-1, Lucky Arrow, Battery Park and Kota Akbar sailed out to sea during the report period. Six vessels viz New Advance, D D Vogue, Kota Akbar, Lucky Carrier, APL Guangzhou and United Stare are currently at the berths. One ship namely Hyundai Commodore expected to sail on Saturday, while another four vessels viz PAC Antlia, Al-Aqeela-II, Lucky Carrier and APL Guangzhou are expected to sail on Sunday.
Two ships namely New Advance and Brother Glory are expected to sail on Monday. Five vessels viz MT Swat, YM Europe, Hanjin Ningbo, Euphony Ace and Olympic Carrier due to arrive on Saturday, while another three ships namely Thomas Mann, Falconia and Queen Arrow-I are due to arrive on Sunday. Nine ships namely Songa Diamond, APL Brisbane, Sima Sahba, Al-Wajba, Captain Andreais, Vasiliy Burkhanov, Ocean Friend, Island Green and Banglar Kallol are due to arrive on Monday.

PORT QASIMA total cargo volume of 121,698 tonnes comprising 103,666 tonnes import and 18,032 tonnes export inclusive of containerised cargo carried in 1,336 containers (TEUs) was handled during last 24 hours on Saturday. The cargo comprised of 49,856 tonnes diesel oil; 14,713 tonnes coal; 534 tonnes rice; 4,507 tonnes rape seeds; 7,190 tonnes cement and 44,898 tonnes containerised cargo.
Three ships: container ship namely Maersk Novazzano, cement ship namely Angelia and oil tanker Al-Soor-II sailed out to sea on Saturday afternoon. A total of eight vessels viz Kiton, Teen, AG Ecaterini, Oriental Express, Dolphin-3, Aqua Grace, Alexi-1 and Sun rise 89 scheduled to load/offload furnace oil, iron ore, rice and cement are currently at the outer anchorage.
Eight ships namely CV Maersk Novazzano, CV MSC Jamima, RMC Geneses, MV Angelia, MV Surreal, MV Sound Proodos, MT Al-Soor-II and MV Kalliop-L are currently occupying berths to load/offload containers, rice, cement, rape seeds, diesel oil and coal respectively during last 24 hours.
Two ships namely Oriental Express and Kiton scheduled to load/offload rice and furnace oil are expected to take berths at Multi Purpose Terminal(MW-3) and FOTCO Terminal respectively on Saturday Seven ships namely Maersk Carolina, Nedlloyed Honshu, ACX Crystal, Anke Ritscher, Norasia Alps, SC Elemen and Tong List carrying containers, palm oil and iron ore are expected to arrive.
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