The Karachi Port handled 165,247 tonnes of cargo comprising 122,965 tonnes of import cargo and 42,282 tonnes of export cargo including 6,059 loaded and empty containers during the last 24 hours ending at 0700 hours on Wednesday. The total import cargo of 122,965 tonnes comprised of 37,646 tonnes of containerised cargo; 3,228 tonnes of general cargo; 7,979 tonnes of bulk cargo: 6,926 tonnes of DAP; 1,083 tonnes of sunflower seeds and 74,112 tonnes of oil/liquid cargo.
The total export cargo of 42,282 tonnes comprised of 21,162 tonnes of containerised cargo; 13,820 tonnes of iron powder and 7,300 tonnes of oil/liquid cargo. As many as 6,059 containers comprising of 2,702 containers import and 3,357 containers export were handled during the last 24 hours on Wednesday.
The break-up of imported containers shows 795 of 20's and 832 of 40's loaded while 03 of 20's and 120 of 40's empty containers, whereas that of exported containers shows 477 of 20's and 284 of 40's loaded containers while 880 of 20's and 716 of 40's empty containers were handled during the business hours.
There were four ships namely MSC Busan, Ital Milione, Newark and APL Japan carrying containers respectively sailed out to sea during the reported period. There were two vessels viz. Northern Dependant and Chong Ming carrying containers and general cargo respectively currently at the berths.
There were four ships namely Cosco Boston, MT Lahore, Izumo and Da Hong Xia carrying containers, oil tanker and general cargo respectively sailed out to sea on Wednesday, while four ships namely Northern Dependant, Kota Kasturi, Chemroad Lara and Formosa Falcon carrying containers and oil tankers respectively are expected to sail on Thursday.
There were three vessels viz. Kota Kasturi, MSC Krittika and Pacific Trust carrying containers and urea respectively due to arrive on Wednesday while three vessels viz. Cosco Wellington, Selin-D and Rainbow carrying containers, oil tanker and general cargo respectively are due to arrive on Thursday.