The Karachi Port handled 222,544 tonnes of cargo comprising 154,856 tonnes of import cargo and 67,688 tonnes of export cargo including 4,743 loaded and empty containers during the last 48 hours ended at 0700 hours on Monday. The total import cargo of 154,856 tonnes comprised 58,488 tonnes of containerised cargo; 5,258 tonnes of general cargo; 11,253 tonnes of bulk cargo: 9,093 tonnes of DAP; 2,160 tonnes of rock phosphate and 79,857 tonnes of oil/liquid cargo.
The total export cargo of 67,688 tonnes comprised 63,213 tonnes of containerised cargo; 438 tonnes of general cargo and 4,037 tonnes of cement. As many as 4,743 containers comprising 1,561 containers import and 3,182 containers export were handled during the last 24 hours on Monday.
The brakeup of imported containers shows 785 of 20's and 388 of 40's loaded while nil of 20's and nil of 40's empty containers, whereas that of exported containers shows 975 of 20's and 648 of 40's loaded containers while 177 of 20's and 367 of 40's empty containers were handled during the business hours.
There are nine ships namely APL Sharjah, YM West, Tasanee, North Power, Med Pacific, Tamar, Euro Progress, Bunga Kantan Dua and Andre Rickmers with four container ships, four oil tankers and one general cargo ship respectively sailed out to sea during the reported period. There are five vessels viz North Power, Maliakos, Med Pacific, Evian and New Horizon with two container ships, one oil tanker, one rock phosphate carrier and one general cargo ship respectively are currently at the berths.
There is no ship sailed out to sea on Monday. There are three vessels viz Hyundai Confidence, Lodestar Genesis and Le Li with one container ship, one chemicals carrier and one general cargo ship respectively due to arrive on Monday, while six vessels viz Kota Gembira, Wan Hai-503, Dawn, Ebn Batuta, Formosa Falcon and Vicente with two container ships, one ethanol tanker, one SF oil Tanker, one naphtha tanker and one steel ship respectively due to arrive on Tuesday.