The Karachi Port handled 185,057 tonnes of cargo comprising 130,368 tonnes of import cargo and 54,689 tonnes of export cargo including 1,985 loaded and empty containers during the last 48 hours ending at 0700 hours on Monday. The total import cargos of 130,368 tonnes comprised of 48,260 tonnes of containerised cargo; 830 tonnes of bulk cargo; 35,265 tonnes of DPA; 12,185 tonnes of yellow peas; 1,600 tonnes of canola and 32,228 tonnes of oil/liquid cargo.

The total export cargos of 54,689 tonnes comprised of 38,826 tonnes of containerised cargo and 15,863 tonnes of clinkers. As many as 1,985 containers comprising of 792 containers import and 1,193 containers export were handled during the last 24 hours on Monday. The breakup of imported containers shows 156 of 20's and 175 of 40's loaded while nil of 20's and 143 of 40's empty containers, whereas that of exported containers shows 418 of 20's and 326 of 40's loaded containers while 33 of 20's and 45 of 40's empty containers were handled during the business hours.

There were eleven ships namely Northern Dexterity, Nordmed, Hyundai Singapore, Al Safa, Sea Ambition, Al Mahboobah, Diavolezza, Clipper Endeavour, Sam Hawk, Marie Grace and Bao Flourish carrying containers, oil tankers, chemical, canola, DAP, clinker and general cargo respectively sailed out to sea during the reported period. There were six vessels viz. Ever Deluxe, Cape Male, Hyundai Singapore, Victoria, Serene Sky and Heilan Cruiser carrying containers, fertilizer and general cargo respectively currently at the berths.