KARACHI: The Karachi Port Trust handled 146,701 tonnes of cargo comprising 101,187 tonnes of import cargo and 45,514 tonnes of export cargo during last 24 hours ending at 0700 hours.

The total import cargo of 101,187 comprised of 47,321 tonnes of Containerized Cargo, 4,743 tonnes of Dap & 49,123 tonnes of Liquid Cargo.

The total export Cargo of 45,514 comprised of 22,813 tonnes of Containerized Cargo, 310 tonnes of Bulk Cargo, 3,271 tonnes of Cement, 11,000 tonnes of Clinkers, 4,120 tonnes of Talc Powder & 4,000 tonnes of Liquid Cargo.

Approximately, 06 ships namely, Beijing Bridge, Independent Spirit, Al Shaffiah, Olympic Sea, X-Press Saween & Deneb Leader berthed at the Karachi Port Trust.

Some 03 ships namely, Navios Jasmine, Sm Mahi & Belita sailed from the Karachi Port Trust.

PORT QASIM

A total of eight ships were engaged at PQA berths during the last 24 hours, out of them three ships, MSC Pamela, African Harrier and EVA Bergen are expected to sail on Tuesday.

Cargo volume of 148,973 tonnes, comprising 78,148 tonnes imports cargo and 70,825 tonnes export cargo carried in 3,205 Containers (1,228 TEUs Imports& 1,977 TEUs Export) was handled at the port during last 24 hours.

There are 14 ships at Outer Anchorage of Port Qasim, out of them three ships, Doris, SC Hong Kong and Milaha Ras Laffan & two more ships, MSC Positano and Navios Tempo scheduled to load/offload Rice, Chemicals, LNG and Containers are expected to take berths at MW-1, EVTL, PGPCL and QICT respectively on Tuesday 29th October, while three more container ships, X-Press Anglesey, Maersk Cabo Verde and One Reinforcement are due to arrive at port on Wednesday 30th October, 2024.

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