High side berth occupancy was reported at the Port at 88% on Tuesday where a total of fourteen ships namely, APL Miami, Maersk Memphis, X-Press Malaku, MSC Asya, Kook Yang Singapore, Bulk Palaris, Sinar Kurtal, Dragon Ocean, Ocean Prefect, W Pacific, Black Pearl-110, Dae Won, Yukon Star and Glorious were occupied PQA berths to load/offload Containers, Sand Coal, Rape seeds, LPG, Palm oil and Diesel oil respectively during last 24 hours.

Cargo handling remained at the Port at 131,007 tonnes, comprising 112,612 tonnes import cargo and 18,395 tonnes export cargo inclusive of containerized cargo carried in 3,579 Containers TEUs, 2,823 TEUs imports and 756 TEUs exports was handled during last 24 hours.

Three ships, Bulk Palaris, Dae Won and Maersk Memphis are expected to sail on Wednesday.

Two ships, Bulk cargo carrier Warisa Naree and gas carrier Al- Jassasiya carrying 53,000 tonnes Coal and 140,600 cmb LNG are expected to take berths at PIBT and EETL respectively on Wednesday, 18th october, while three more ships, Thor Insuvi, MS Charm and Al-Salam-II scheduled to load/offloads Cement, Steel coil and Diesel oil are due to arrive at Port Qasim on same day, and containers vessel CMA CGM Maupassant is due to arrive on Thursday October 19.