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Activities at Karachi and Qasim ports

22 Apr, 2016

The Karachi Port handled 172,726 tonnes of cargo comprising 150,285 tonnes of import cargo and 22,441 tonnes of export cargo including 5,154 loaded and empty containers during the last 24 hours ending at 0700 hours on Thursday.
The total import cargo of 150,285 tonnes comprised of 42,405 tonnes of containerised cargo; 19,111 tonnes of bulk cargo; 48,144 tonnes of total bulk cargo: 37,436 tonnes of coal; 2,994 tonnes of fertiliser; 2,467 tonnes of palm bulk expeller; 5,247 tonnes of scrap and 40,625 tonnes of oil/liquid cargo.
The total export cargo of 22,441 tonnes comprised of 12,941 tonnes of containerised cargo and 9,500 tonnes of oil/liquid cargo.
As many as 5,154 containers comprising of 3,115 containers import and 2,029 containers export were handled during the last 24 hours on Thursday.
The break-up of imported containers shows 977 of 20's and 1,026 of 40's loaded while nil of 20's and 43 of 40's empty containers, whereas that of exported containers shows 232 of 20's and 337 of 40's loaded containers while 369 of 20's and 382 of 40's empty containers were handled during the business hours.
There were seven ships namely Kota Naluri, Hansa Neuburg, Batam Trader, UACC Ibn Sina, Aditya, Meteora and Chios Trinity carrying containers, oil tanker, coal and general cargo respectively sailed out to sea during the reported period.
There were seven vessels viz. Wan Hai-511, MOL Dedication, Batam Trader, Sima Giselle, Milos, Pacific Winter and Agata M carrying containers, oil tanker and general cargo respectively currently at the berths.
There were two ships namely Pacific Winter and Agata carrying general cargo sailed out to sea on Thursday while five ships namely Sima Giselle, Milos, Torm Lorie, N Mars and Apiradee Naree carrying containers, oil tanker and coal respectively are expected to sail on Friday.
There were five vessels viz. A Idefix, Oriental Nadeshiko, Futura, Bahamas Spirit and Le Li carrying containers, chemical, mogas, oil tanker and general cargo respectively due to arrive on Thursday while four vessels viz. UAFL Zanzibar, Najran, Malhari and Jin Gang carrying containers, chemical and steel respectively are due to arrive on Friday.

The total import cargo of 89,677 tonnes includes 18,817 tonnes of diesel oil; 16,000 tonnes of palm oil; 17,507 tonnes of canola seeds; 5,000 tonnes of chemical and 32,300 tonnes of containerised cargo.
The total export cargo includes 36,689 tonnes of containerised cargo.
As many as 3,631 containers comprising of 1,700 containers import and 1,931 containers export were handled during the last 24 hours on Thursday.
There were two ships namely CV CMA CGM Tosca and MV Oriental Nadeshake carrying containers and chemical sailed out to sea on Thursday.
A total number of six vessels viz. CV Maersk Salalah, CV CMA CGM Tosca, MV Malakand, MV Oriental Nadeshake MT Silver Manika and MT Bunga Akasa currently occupied berths to load/offload containers, canola seeds, chemical, diesel oil and palm oil and respectively during the last 24 hours.
As many as four ships namely MV Johar Express, MT Liberty-N, MT Al-Ghashaniya and MT Sam Pride carrying cement, LPG, LNG and palm oil respectively were at the outer anchorage of Port Qasim on Thursday.
There were five vessels viz. CV Priority, NV Johar Express, MV Atlantic Glory, MT Liberty-N and MT Al-Ghashaniya carrying containers, cement, chemical, LPG and LNG expected to take berths at Qasim International Containers Terminal, Multi Purpose Terminal, Energy Terminal, Engro Vopak Terminal and SSGC LPG Terminal respectively on Thursday.
There were nine ships namely CV San Felipe, CV Hansa America, CV MSC Pamela, CV MSC Allghero, MT Bronia, MT Karachi, MT Omera Queen, MT Brizo and MT Okyroe carrying containers, diesel oil and furnace oil respectively due to arrive on Thursday.

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