Karachi Port operations

Published December 21, 2008

KARACHI, Dec 20: Three ships carrying urea, containers and crude oil, are due to arrive at the outer anchorage on Sunday, according to KPT sources.

Berthing activity at the wharves was active where four ships, Sima Sahba, Amiya Scan, to unload and load containers and general cargo, Suez Express, to offload steel products, and Rising Om, to load naphtha berthed after the departure of five.

The ships, which departed were led by Bunga Bidara, Eric G Gibson, TS Dubai, Faisal and Southern Bull, while Amiya Scan, Lalazar, Rising Om, Suez Express, Martha Russ, Lucky-7, Thuringia Express and Eastern Fortune are due to sail out on Sunday.

Cargo handling activity at the wharves fell further to 54,602 tons owing to lesser handling of liquid tonnage. The export tonnage amounted to 12,369 tons and import tonnage 42,233 tons.

The following ships are due on Sunday: Quetta, with crude oil, Xibohe, with containers, Leader-1, with 30,020 tons of urea.

The following vessels are due on Monday: Hua Seng and Hyun Jin KS-3, to load 6,000 and 10,500 tons of cement, Equinox Sea, with 40,000 tons of coal, Arnis, Sinar Bintan, YM Improvement, and Ainaftis, with containers.

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