The Karachi Port handled 96,716 tonnes of cargo comprising 50,159 tonnes of import cargo and 46,557 tonnes of export cargo including 7,203 loaded & empty containers during last 24 hours ended at 0700 hours on Tuesday. The total import cargo of 50,159 tonnes comprised of 38,574 tonnes of containerised cargo; 192 tonnes of general cargo and 11,393 tonnes of oil/liquid cargo.
The total export cargo of 46,557 tonnes comprised of 43,698 tonnes of containerised cargo; 1,851 tonnes of general cargo and 1,008 tonnes of cement. A total number of 7,203 containers comprising 2,786 containers import and 4,417 containers export were handled during the last 24 hours on Tuesday.
The brake up of imported containers shows 1,060 of 20's and 841 of 40's of loaded while nil of 20's and 22 of 40's empty containers, whereas that of exported containers shows 1,054 of 20's and 795 of 40's loaded containers while and 249 of 20's 762 40's empty containers were handled during the business hours.
Five ships namely Leo Perdana, Sydney, UASC Shuwaikh, ISE and BBC Steinwall with three container ships, one steel ship and one general cargo ship respectively sailed out to sea during the reported period. Three vessels viz Hanjin Monaco, BBC Steinwall and Sunrise Wisteria with one container ship, one general cargo ship and one oil tanker respectively are currently at the berths.
Three ships namely APL Brisbane, Hanjin Monaco and Glovis Clipper with two container ships chemicals carrier and one vehicles carrier respectively sailed out to sea on Tuesday, while another ships namely Sunrise Wisteria with one oil tanker is expected to sail on Wednesday.
Three vessels viz Jolly, Clipper Karen and Sunrise Wisteria with one container ship, one chemicals carrier and one vehicles carrier respectively due to arrive on Tuesday, while four vessels viz Lara Rickmers, Ever Result, Rio Bravo and CSC Amethyst with three container ships and one mogas ship respectively are due to arrive on Wednesday.