Karachi Port operations

Published May 24, 2002

KARACHI, May 23: Four ships carrying containers are expected to arrive at the outer anchorage on Friday, according to KPT sources.

Ship movements at the wharves were maintained on the higher side where 10 ships were berthed and sailed out.

The ships, which were berthed included Safe Marine Tana, Leixoes, Oriental Bright and Hammurabi to unload and

load containers, Multan to offload and load general

cargo and Johar to offload crude oil.

Bombay Star, Lanka Mahapola, Trade Selene and Fuji Hoshi sailed out, while NCC Hijaz, Bear-G, Hammurabi, Johar, Safe Marine Tana and Leixoes are due to sail out on Friday.

Owing to larger handling of liquid tonnage, the total rose to 0.118m tons comprising 11,002 tons of export cargo and 0.107 tons of import cargo including 83,836 tons of oils.

The following ships are due on Friday: L.M.Z. Christiana, with 60,000 tons of crude oil, Global Power, Kota Teraju and Eos-1, with containers.

Port Qasim

KARACHI, May 23: A ship, Qem Star, to unload 6,267 tons of chemicals was allotted berth at Engro Vopak Terminal while another ship, Christira Venture, carrying general cargo also arrived at the outer anchorage, says a PQA press release on Thursday.

Eight ships Anastasia, Semi Ramis, Mighty, Safmarine Victory, New Toyokaze, Gulf Tiger, Miyama-1 and Qem Star were at the wharves loading/ offloading wheat, containers, and edible oil, furnace oil, iron ore and chemicals respectively.

The port handled some 68,859 tons of cargo comprising 61,324 tons of import tonnage and 7,535 tons of export cargo, in addition to 244 containers (Teus).

Following is the detail of cargo handling:

Commodity Import Export

Chemicals 2,260 —

Wheat — 7,535

Furnace oil 42,372 —

Edible oil 10,360 —

Iron ore 6,332 —

Containers 25 219

Sub-total 61,324 6,395

Total 68,859

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