The Karachi Port handled 135,925 tonnes of cargo comprising 105,323 tonnes of import cargo and 30,602 tonnes of export cargo including 6,640 loaded and empty containers during the last 24 hours ended at 0700 hours on Saturday. The total import cargo of 105,323 tonnes comprised 49,690 tonnes of containerised cargo; 8,202 tonnes of general cargo; 22,876 tonnes of bulk cargo and 24,555 tonnes of oil/liquid cargo.
The total export cargo of 30,602 tonnes comprised 27,712 tonnes of containerised cargo; 190 tonnes of general cargo and 2,700 tonnes of oil/liquid cargo. As many as 6,640 containers comprising 3,472 containers import and 3,168 containers export were handled during the last 24 hours on Saturday. The brakeup of imported containers shows 1,197 of 20's and 1,125 of 40's loaded while 3 of 20's and 11 of 40's empty containers, whereas that of exported containers shows 693 of 20's and 547 of 40's loaded containers while 205 of 20's and 588 of 40's empty containers were handled during the business hours.
There are four ships with two container ships and two general cargo ships respectively sailed out to sea during the reported period. There are four vessels with three container ships and one oil tanker respectively are currently at the berths.
There are two ships namely Rio Bravo and Brightoil Legend with one container ship and one oil tanker respectively sailed out to sea on Saturday. There are six vessels viz APL Brisbane, MOL Solution, Hanjin Indigo, Gemmar Consul, Ebn Batuta and Industrial Nedland with four container ships, one crude oil tanker and one unit ship respectively due to arrive on Saturday.