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KARACHI, Aug 28: Five ships carrying chemicals, containers, general cargo and to load ethanol are due to arrive at the outer anchorage on Friday, according to KPT sources.
Berthing activity on the wharves showed slight improvement where six ships were berthed. They are: Hyundai Future, Dubai, to unload and load containers, Pacific Skipper to offload steel cargo, Engin Kaptan Oglu, to unload DAP fertilizer, Mary Ann to offload high speed diesel and Bow Dejin, to unload chemicals.
Three ships, APL Portugal, Dong He and Sport Queen departed on Thursday, while L.M.Z. Christina, Hyundai Future, Diana-C, Orient Stride, Bow Dejin, Dubai and Mary Ann are due to sail out on Friday.
Cargo handling activity at the wharves was brisk where the total tonnage rose to 0.117m tones comprising 17,582 tons of export cargo and 99,399 tons of import tonnage including 64,422 tons of oils.
The following ships are due on Friday: Orient Jasmin, to load 4,900 tons of ethanol, Chemstar Eagle, with 9,000 tons of chemicals, Wan Hai-305, with containers, Love Letter, with project cargo and Chitral, with 6,500 tons of general cargo.
KARACHI, Aug 28: Two ships scheduled to load and offload containers were allotted berths at Qasim International Containers Terminal during the last 24 hours, said PQA press release on Thursday.
Berth occupancy remained steady as five ships, Aurora, Rosa-M, Austria, Contship Germany and Eburna were busy in loading/offloading containers and edible oil.
A cargo volume of 33,133 tons comprising 19,091 tons of import cargo and 14,042 tons of export tonnage was handled.
Sailing was also active as two ships, Aurora and Contship Germany sailed out, Rosa-M and Eburna were due to depart. Maersk Avon and Igloo Star were awaiting their berthing turn at the outer anchorage.
