The Karachi Port handled 62,287 tonnes of cargo comprising 28,077 tonnes of import cargo and 34,210 tonnes of export cargo including 3,060 loaded and empty containers during the last 24 hours ending at 0700 hours on Thursday. The total import cargo of 28,077 tonnes comprised of 2,852 tonnes of containerised cargo; 325 tonnes of general cargo and 24,900 tonnes of oil/liquid cargo.
The total export cargo of 34,210 tonnes comprised of 25,423 tonnes of containerised cargo; 192 tonnes of general cargo; 5,295 tonnes of rice and 3,300 tonnes of oil/liquid cargo. As many as 3,060 containers comprising of 449 containers import and 2,611 containers export were handled during the last 24 hours on Thursday.
The break-up of imported containers shows 39 of 20's and 85 of 40's loaded while nil of 20's and 120 of 40's empty containers, whereas that of exported containers shows 506 of 20's and 567 of 40's loaded containers while 349 of 20's and 311 of 40's empty containers were handled during the business hours.
There were five ships namely Kota Karim, PAC Aries, Japan, Bun Shin and BBC Spring carrying containers, oil tanker and general cargo respectively sailed out to seea during the reported period There were three vessels viz. PAC Aries, MT Quetta and BBC Spring carrying containers, oil tanker and general cargo respectively currently at the berths.
There was one ship namely Shalamar carrying oil tanker sailed out to sea on Thursday, while three ships namely APL Guangzhou, Lissy Schulte and Thorco Sapphire carrying containers and oil tanker respectively are expected to sail on Friday.
There was one vessel viz. RHL Aqua carrying containers due to arrive on Thursday, while five vessels viz. Cosco Kawasaki, Deira, Elina-B, Danica Brown and Stellar Maestro carrying containers, coal and project cargo respectively are due to arrive on Friday.