Port Qasim

Published December 31, 2008

KARACHI, Dec 30:Oil tanker MT Stella carrying 66,611 tons furnace oil arrived at the outer anchorage of Port Qasim while a total of seven ships, MV Orient-II, MV Eastern Sun, MV Tourloti, MT Royal Emerald, MT AI-Soor lI, MT Valentine and MV Haadi, occupied berths at PQA to load/offload containers, cement, rice, wheat, palm oil, diesel oil, chemicals and iron ore, respectively, during the last 24 hours.

The total cargo volume of 28,461 tons, comprising 22,027 tons of import cargo and 6,434 tons of export cargo, was handled during the period.—APP

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