KARACHI: Shipping activity remained active at the port where four ships, Maritime Sotoshio, IVS Beach Wood, Thong Long and Red Eagle carrying Coal, Palm Kernel and Diesel oil were allotted berths at Port Qasim Electric Power Terminal, Multi-purpose Terminal, Grain & Fertilizer Terminal and FOTCO Oil Terminal respectively on Wednesday.
Meanwhile four more ships, Engiadina, Pacific Talent, Sun Ploeg and NCC Maha with coal and Palm oil also arrived at outer anchorage of Port Qasim during last 24 hours. A total of ten ships namely, Maersk Euphrates, MSC Algeciras, Riva Wind, Soho Trader, Madrid Trader, Maritime Setoshio, IVS Beach Wood, Alamanda, Thong Long and Red Eagle are currently occupying PQA berths to load/offload Containers, Wheat, Talc Powder, Project Cargo, Coal, Palm oil, Palm Kernal and Diesel oil respectively during last 24 hours. Cargo throughput during last 24 hours stood at 121,162 tonnes, comprising 46,694 tonnes import cargo and 74,468 tonnes export cargo inclusive of containerized cargo carried in 3,218 Containers (TEUs), (287 TEUs imports and 2,931 TEUs exports) was handled at the Port .
Two ships, Container vessel Maersk Euphrates and General cargo carrier Madrid Trader sailed out to sea on Thursday morning, while another container vessel MSC Algeciras is expected to sail on same day.
Five ships, CMA CGM Al-Maviva, CMA CGM Nerval, Engiadina, Pacific Action and Bunga Lily carrying Containers, Coal, General cargo and Chemicals are expected to take berths at QICT, PIBT, MW-1 and EVTL respectively on Thursday, 29th March while three more ships Adamastos, Uni Florida and Libra with containers are due to arrive at Port Qasim on Friday.
