The Karachi Port handled 215,946 tonnes of cargo comprising 131,060 tonnes of import cargo and 84,886 tonnes of export cargo including 3,086 loaded and empty containers during the last 48 hours ending at 0700 hours on Monday.
The total import cargos of 131,060 tonnes comprised of 55,555 tonnes of containerised cargo; 548 tonnes of bulk cargo; 22,424 tonnes of DPA; 514 tonnes of MAP and 52,019 tonnes of oil/liquid cargo.
The total export cargos of 84,886 tonnes comprised of 30,064 tonnes of containerised cargo; 20 tonnes of DAP; 42,702 tonnes of clinkers and 12,100 tonnes of oil/liquid cargo.
As many as 3,086 containers comprising of 1,205 containers import and 1,881 containers export were handled during the last 24 hours on Monday.
The breakup of imported containers shows 179 of 20's and 349 of 40's loaded while nil of 20's and 164 of 40's empty containers, whereas that of exported containers shows 421 of 20's and 415 of 40's loaded containers while 202 of 20's and 214 of 40's empty containers were handled during the business hours.
There were ten ships namely Nordmed, Hyundai Shanghai, MT Quetta, Al Safa, Dong Ting Hu, Navig8 Aragonite, Hinode Maru, Le Hi, River King-B1 and King-T1 carrying containers, oil tanker, mogas, chemical, clinkers anf general cargo respectively sailed out to sea during the reported period.
There were nine vessels viz. Ever Decent, Northern Discovery, Cape Male, Hyundai Shanghai, Luctor, CT Fronter, Oriental Sakura, Navig8 Aragonite and Clipper Endeavour carrying containers, oil tankers, chemical and fertilizer respectively currently at the berths.