The Karachi Port handled 126,105 tonnes of cargo comprising 112,172 tonnes of import cargo and 13,933 tonnes of export cargo including 3,631 loaded and empty containers during the last 24 hours ending at 0700 hours on Wednesday.
The total import cargo of 112,172 tonnes comprised of 42,766 tonnes of containerised cargo; 927 tonnes of general cargo; 9,953 tonnes of total bulk cargo: 5,635 tonnes of coal; 958 tonnes of soyabean meal; 3,360 tonnes of rock phosphate and 58,526 tonnes of oil/liquid cargo.
The total export cargo of 13,933 tonnes comprised of 12,583 tonnes of containerised cargo; 300 tonnes of general cargo and 1,050 tonnes of oil/liquid cargo. As many as 3,631 containers comprising of 2,784 containers import and 847 containers export were handled during the last 24 hours on Wednesday.
The break-up of imported containers shows 883 of 20's and 903 of 40's loaded while 01 of 20's and 47 of 40's empty containers, whereas that of exported containers shows 441 of 20's and 149 of 40's loaded containers while 16 of 20's and 46 of 40's empty containers were handled during the business hours.
There were six ships namely Hyundai Vancouver, Express Blacksea, MSC Nicole, KY Venus, Chemtrans-1 and Sea India carrying containers, chemical and tug respectively sailed out to sea during the reported period.
There were two vessels viz. Kota Karim and Nasco Jade carrying containers and general cargo respectively currently at the berths. There are two ships namely MOL Explorer and Amoy Action carrying containers and coal respectively expected to sail on Thursday. There were ten vessels viz. Cosco Haifa, Sima Giselle, Hammunia Virginia, Everrich-7, Oriental Lotus, Weser, Hong Master, Zealand Almera, Han Li and Chipolbrok Star carrying containers, oil tanker, chemical, caustic soda, general cargo and project cargo respectively due to arrive on Wednesday, while three vessels viz. Batam Trader, Wan Hai-511 and MT Karachi carrying containers and oil tanker respectively are due to arrive on Thursday.