KARACHI: The Karachi Port Trust handled 230,760 tonnes of cargo comprising 115,139 tonnes of import cargo and 115,621 tonnes of export cargo during last 48 hours ending at 0700 hours.

The total import cargo of 115,139 comprised of 89,694 tonnes of Containerized Cargo & 25,445 tonnes of Bulk Cargo.

The total export Cargo of 115,621 comprised of 58,814 tonnes of Containerized Cargo, 54,007 tonnes of Clinkers & 2,800 tonnes of Liquid Cargo.

Approximately, 08 ships namely, Hmm Bangkok, express Argentina, Cosco New York, CmaCgm Attila, Spring Oais, Mt Quetta, Yong Chang Shu Hang & X-Press Cassiopeia berth at Karachi Port Trust.

Around, 06 ships namely, Nymph Thetis, Atlantic Ibis, Hmm Bangkok, Esl Nhava Sheva, Aljalaa & Express Argentina sailed from Karachi Port Trust.

PORT QASIM

A total of ten ships were engaged at PQA berths during the last 24 hours, out of them a Liquid Natural Gas carrier ‘Lusail’ left the port on Monday morning, while seven more ships, Apollon-D, MSE Prelude-V, Federal Iberville, Marina Aman, Limra, MH Sandef Jord and Ever Success are expected to sail on same day.

Cargo volume of 201,368 tonnes, comprising 121,290 tonnes imports cargo and 80,078 tonnes export cargo carried in 6,289 Containers (3,133 TEUs Imports and 3,156 TEUs export) was handled at the port during last 24 hours.

There are 09 ships at Outer Anchorage of Port Qasim, out of them three ships, Capricon, Asia Inspire and Hanyu Freesia & two more ships, Horizon-I and MSC Silvia scheduled to load/offload Iron Ore, Palm oil, Chemicals, LPG and Container are expected to take berths at MW-2, LCT, EVTL, SSGC and QICT on today 13thMay, while two more containers ships, Maersk Columbus and Amoure uxare due arrive at Port Qasim on Tuesday, 14th May, 2024.

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