The Karachi Port handled 140,643 tonnes of cargo comprising 113,735 tonnes of import cargo and 26,908 tonnes of export cargo including 8,300 loaded and empty containers during the last 24 hours ending at 0700 hours on Friday. The total import cargo of 113,735 tonnes comprised of 59,342 tonnes of containerised cargo; 16,253 tonnes of bulk cargo; 18,510 tonnes of total bulk cargo: 14,350 tonnes of coal; 4,160 tonnes of SB meal and 19,630 tonnes of oil/liquid cargo.
The total export cargo of 26,908 tonnes comprised of 20,391 tonnes of containerised cargo; 456 tonnes of bulk cargo and 6,061 tonnes of oil/liquid cargo. As many as 8,300 containers comprising of 3,592 containers import and 4,708 containers export were handled during the last 24 hours on Friday. The breakup of imported containers shows 1,753 of 20's and 889 of 40's loaded while 5 of 20's and 28 of 40's empty containers, whereas that of exported containers shows 609 of 20's and 340 of 40's loaded containers while 607 of 20's and 1,406 of 40's empty containers were handled during the business hours.
There were six ships namely Batam Trader, MSC Roberta, Ever Divine, MT Lahore, Alster Bay and Seacon-B carrying containers, oil tanker and coal respectively sailed out to sea during the reported period. There were seven vessels viz. Hyundai Highness, Uni Prudent, Bahamas, Chemroad Fuji, Stalingrad, Chang Hang Zuan and RU YI Song carrying containers, oil tankers and general cargo respectively currently at the berths.
There were five ships namely HS Marco Polo, Bahamas, Wan Hai-503, Stalingrad and Asia Zircon carrying containers, oil tanker and steel respectively sailed out to sea on Friday. There were four vessels viz. Al-Farahidi, APL Germany, Kong Que Song and Inuyama carrying containers and steel respectively due to arrive on Friday while three vessels viz. Hyundai Paramount, Stade and Chang Hang Huai Hai carrying containers and general cargo respectively are due to arrive on Saturday.