The Karachi Port handled 71,326 tonnes of cargo comprising 51,277 tonnes of import cargo and 20,049 tonnes of export cargo including 1,358 loaded and empty containers during the last 24 hours ending at 0700 hours on Monday. The total import cargo of 51,277 tonnes comprised of 6,530 tonnes of containerised cargo; 31,583 tonnes of bulk cargo and 13,164 tonnes of oil/liquid cargo.
The total export cargo of 20,049 tonnes comprised of 18,149 tonnes of containerised cargo and 1,900 tonnes of oil/liquid cargo. As many as 1,358 containers comprising 274 containers import and 1,084 containers export were handled during the last 24 hours on Monday. The break-up of imported containers shows 264 of 20's and 4 of 40's loaded while 2 of 20's and nil of 40's empty containers, whereas that of exported containers shows 572 of 20's and 236 of 40's loaded containers while 26 of 20's and 7 of 40's empty containers were handled during the business hours.
There were ten ships namely APL Chicago, Cosco Kobe, UASC Sitrah, PAC Aries, Hyundai Colombo, Gema, Al Mahboobah, Water Breeze, Somerset and BBC Iceland carrying containers, oil tanker, cement and general cargo respectively sailed out to sea during the reported period. There were four vessels viz. Santa Rosa, Water Breeze, El Gurdabia and Ikan Salmon carrying containers, oil tankers and coal currently at the berths.
There was one ship namely Sasebo ECO carrying oil tanker sailed out to sea on Monday, while two more ships namely El Gurdabia and Star Mistral carrying oil tanker and coal are expected to sail on Tuesday. There was one vessel viz. DL Clover carrying oil tanker due to arrive on Monday, while five vessels viz. Hanjin Indigo, MOL Direction, Kota Karim, Neelambari and Ikan Siakap carrying containers, chemical and coal respectively are due to arrive on Tuesday.
The total export cargo includes 20,475 tonnes of containerised cargo. There were three ships namely CV Altamira, Fairchem Charger and MT RBD Anema E Core with containers, chemical and oil tanker sailed out sea on Monday morning, while another ship namely CV MSC General with containers are expected to sail on the same day afternoon. A total number of eight vessels viz. CV Altamira, CV MSC General, Massallia, Georglanna Bo, MT Ince Il Gaz, MV Fairchem Charger, DL Dahlia and MT RBD Anema E Core currently occupied berths to load/offload containers, cement, rape seed, chemical, coal and furnace oil respectively during the last 24 hours.
As many as seven ships namely Alliance Norfolk, Safmarine Ngami, Mega Lohari, Industrial Sailor, Neelambari, Atlantic Glory and Ever Mighty with containers, rape seed, general cargo, chemical and coal are currently at the outer anchorage of Port Qasim. There were three vessels carrying containers and chemical took berths at Qasim International Containers Terminal and Engro Vopak Terminal respectively on Sunday. There are four ships namely CV Alliance Norfolk, CV Safmarine Ngami, Industrial Sailor and Neelambari with containers, general cargo and chemical due to arrive on Monday.
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