The Karachi Port handled 225,763 tonnes of cargo comprising 129,111 tonnes of import cargo and 96,652 tonnes of export cargo including 4,500 loaded and empty containers during the last 48 hours ending at 0700 hours on Monday. The total import cargos of 129,111 tonnes comprised of 53,224 tonnes of containerised cargo; 11,466 tonnes of DAP and 64,421 tonnes of oil/liquid cargo.
The total export cargos of 96,652 tonnes comprised of 27,758 tonnes of containerised cargo; 1,000 tonnes of bulk cargo; 5,124 tonnes of barite lumps; 5,124 tonnes of talcum powder; 32,800 tonnes of clinkers and 24,400 tonnes of oil/liquid cargo. As many as 4,500 containers comprising of 2,471 containers import and 2,029 containers export were handled during the last 24 hours on Monday.
The breakup of imported containers shows 1,043 of 20's and 592 40's loaded while nil of 20's and 122 of 40's empty containers, whereas that of exported containers shows 451 of 20's and 202 of 40's loaded containers while 166 of 20's and 504 of 40's empty containers were handled during the business hours. There were nine ships namely Ever Decent, Xin Mei Zhou, Northern Discovery, Chembulk Jakarta, MT Lahore, Panagia Lady, Olivia, Beijing Venture and Gladiator carrying containers, oil tankers, talcum powder and general cargo respectively sailed out to sea during the reported period.
There were five vessels viz. MS Tiger, Hyundai Mercury, Ever Decent, Xena and Apanemo carrying containers and oil tankers respectively currently at the berths.