The Karachi Port handled 183,168 tonnes of cargo comprising 158,065 tonnes of import cargo and 25,103 tonnes of export cargo including 5,701 loaded and empty containers during the last 24 hours ending at 0700 hours on Thursday. The total import cargo of 158,065 tonnes comprised of 25,244 tonnes of containerised cargo; 19,482 tonnes of general cargo; 42,411 tonnes of total bulk cargo: 36,162 tonnes of coal; 1,696 tonnes of soyabean meal; 920 tonnes of palm kernel expeller; 3,633 tonnes of canola and 70,928 tonnes of oil/liquid cargo.
The total export cargo of 25,103 tonnes comprised of 21,109 tonnes of containerised cargo; 1,794 tonnes of misc decoration and 2,200 tonnes of oil/liquid cargo. As many as 5,701 containers comprising of 2,414 containers import and 3,287 containers export were handled during the last 24 hours on Thursday.
The breakup of imported containers shows 718 of 20's and 848 of 40's loaded while nil of 20's and nil of 40's empty containers, whereas that of exported containers shows 442 of 20's and 510 of 40's loaded containers while 357 of 20's and 734 of 40's empty containers were handled during the business hours. There were two ships namely MSC Imma and Ever Precious carrying containers and coal respectively sailed out to sea during the reported period.
There were three vessels viz. MOL Devotion, DL Lavender and Oriental Queen carrying containers, iron powder and general cargo respectively currently at the berths. There were three ships namely Cape Marine, Bochem Antwerp and Alexandrit carrying containers, oil tanker and steel respectively sailed out to sea on Thursday while two ships namely Veenus and Dato Success carrying meal and steel are expected to sail on Friday.
There were three vessels viz. Cosco Sao Paulo, Hyundai Brave and MT Shalamar carrying containers and oil tanker respectively due to arrive on Thursday while three vessels viz. APL Coral, Al Abdali and Kiran Anatolia carrying containers and coal respectively are due to arrive on Friday.