The Karachi Port handled 155,953 tonnes of cargo including 98,177 tonnes of import cargo, 57,776 tonnes of export cargo and 2,494 loaded & empty containers during last 48 hours ended at 0700 hours on Monday. The total import cargo of 98,177 tonnes comprised of 49,885 tonnes of containerised cargo; 2,560 tonne of general cargo; 4,290 tonnes of rock phosphate and 41,442 tonnes of oil/liquid cargo.
The total export cargo of 57,776 tonnes comprised of 55,231 tonnes of containerised cargo; 1,232 tonnes of general cargo and 1,313 tonnes of cement. Ten ships namely YM Fuzhou, Emirates Wasi, CSL Ride, Kota Arif, Lodestar Genesis, Sky Dream, Alliance Beaumont, Green Line, Iron Monger-5 and Wilma carrying four container ships, two oil tankers, car carrier, cement ship, bunker ship and general cargo ship respectively sailed out to sea during the reported period.
Nine vessels viz Kota Arif, APL Ruby, APL Sharjah, Alliance Beaumont, Lodestar Genesis, MT Karachi, Sky Dream, Iron Monger-5 and Wilma carrying three container ships, car carrier, three oil tankers, bunker ship and general cargo ship respectively are currently at the berths. Three ships namely Karadeniz Powership, APL Ruby and OOCL Charleston with power ship and two container ships respectively are expected to sail on Monday, while four ships namely APL Sharjah, Praia, Positano and MT Karachi with three container ships and crude oil tanker are expected to sail on Tuesday.
Two vessels viz Lindavia and Praia carrying two container ships due to arrive on Monday, while eight vessels viz Fair Express, Angel No 1, Northern Valence, Hyundai Independence, STX Patriakos, APL Japan, Prem Apama and Jin Hyang carrying mogas carrier, chemicals ship, four container ships coal carrier and steel carrier respectively are due to arrive on Tuesday.