The Karachi Port handled 111,108 tonnes of cargo comprising 98,138 tonnes of import cargo and 12,970 tonnes of export cargo including 3,227 loaded and empty containers during the last 24 hours ending at 0700 hours on Friday. The total import cargo of 98,138 tonnes comprised of 22,864 tonnes of containerised cargo; 2,101 tonnes of general cargo; 17,065 tonnes of bulk cargo: 6,750 tonnes of DAP; 2,799 tonnes of sunflower seeds; 2,394 tonnes of palm kernel expeller and 56,108 tonnes of oil/liquid cargo.
The total export cargo of 12,970 tonnes comprised of 6,626 tonnes of containerised cargo; 496 tonnes of general cargo; 2,048 tonnes of DAP and 3,800 tonnes of oil/liquid cargo. As many as 3,227 containers comprising of 1,685 containers import and 1,542 containers export were handled during the last 24 hours on Friday.
The breakup of imported containers shows 493 of 20's and 561 of 40's loaded while nil of 20's and 35 of 40's empty containers, whereas that of exported containers shows 139 of 20's and 89 of 40's loaded containers while 123 of 20's and 551 of 40's empty containers were handled during the business hours.
There were six ships namely Kota Kasturi, MSC Krittika, Northern Dependant, Adele Marina Rizzo, Chemway Lara and Chong Ming carrying containers, oil tankers and general cargo respectively sailed out to sea during the reported period.
There were six vessels viz. Cosco Wellington, MOL Endowment, Xin Zhang Zhou, MT Quetta, UACC Shams and CTG Cobalt carrying containers and oil tankers respectively currently at the berths.
There are four ships namely Cosco Wellington, MOL Endowment, TEO and Yuan Hai carrying containers, DAP and general cargo respectively expected to sail on Saturday. There were four vessels viz. GH Seabiscuit, Selin-D, Spar Libra and Heilan Ewuilbrium carrying SB meal, molasses, coal and general cargo respectively due to arrive on Friday while six vessels viz. Polo, Prosper, Oriental Jasmine, Saehan Estrella, Kiran Caspian and Rainbow carrying containers, oil tanker, chemical and general cargo respectively are due to arrive on Saturday.