The Karachi Port handled 150,517 tonnes of cargo comprising 118,788 tonnes of import cargo and 31,729 tonnes of export cargo including 5,811 loaded and empty containers during the last 24 hours ending at 0700 hours on Tuesday. The total import cargo of 118,788 tonnes comprised of 46,269 tonnes of containerised cargo; 483 tonnes of general cargo; 42,928 tonnes of bulk cargo: 28,600 tonnes of coal; 7,378 tonnes of DAP; 6,950 tonnes of rock phosphate and 29,108 tonnes of oil/liquid cargo.
The total export cargo of 31,729 tonnes comprised of 27,553 tonnes of containerised cargo; 402 tonnes of general cargo; 2,274 tonnes of loose bulk cement and 1,500 tonnes of oil/liquid cargo. As many as 5,811 containers comprising of 3,045 containers import and 2,766 containers export were handled during the last 24 hours on Tuesday.
The break-up of imported containers shows 1,263 of 20's and 878 of 40's loaded while nil of 20's and 13 of 40's empty containers, whereas that of exported containers shows 688 of 20's and 126 of 40's loaded containers while 314 of 20's and 756 of 40's empty containers were handled during the business hours.
There were eight ships namely APL Coral, Cosco Fukuyama, Lissy Schulte, Hyundai Confidence, Unique Infinity, Hongli-8, Skyhigh SW and Antje carrying containers, oil tanker, chemical, soyameaal and general cargo respectively sailed out to sea during the reported period.
There were five vessels viz. MYK Furano, Sima Giselle, Everrich-5, Alam Molek and Skyhigh SW carrying containers, oil tanker, coal and general cargo respectively currently at the berths.
There were three ships namely NYK Furano, MT Shalamar and Mohar carrying containers, oil tanker and coal respectively sailed out to sea on Tuesday, while four ships namely Hammonia Virginia, Vecchio Bridge, Bunga Laurel and Storm Rider carrying containers, chemical and general cargo respectively are expected to sail on Wednesday.
There were three vessels viz. Taroko, Ever Diamond and MT Quetta carrying containers and oil tanker respectively due to arrive on Tuesday while four vessels viz. Kota Karim, Vania, MT Lahore and MV CTG Bismuth carrying containers, oil tanker and chemical respectively are due to arrive on Wednesday.