KARACHI: Two ships Genuine Galaxy and Ever Rich-6 carrying 23,500 tonnes Palm oil and 4,490 tonnes LPG took berths at Liquid Cargo Terminal and Engro Vopak Terminal respectively on Wednesday.
Meanwhile two more ships Suez Canal and JS Green Star with containers and Chemical also arrived at outer anchorage of Port Qasim during last 24 hours.
Berth occupancy was managed at the port at fifty three percent on Wednesday where a total nine ships are currently occupying berths to load/offload containers, project cargo, steel coil, Canola seed, LPG, LNG, Palm oil, Mogas and Diesel oil during last 24 hours.
Cargo throughput during last 24 hours stood at 108,274 tonnes, comprising 59,455 tonnes import cargo and 48,792 tonnes export cargo inclusive of containerized cargo carried in 2,904 containers (TEUs), (336 TEUs import and 2,568 TEUs exports) was handled at the Port.
Four ships Maersk Kensington, Bao Succes, Maistros and Al-Nuaman sailed out to sea on Thursday Morning, while another ships Zi Jing Song is expected to sea on same day. Four ships, Suez Canal, Pan Ocean, AC-D and Glorious scheduled to load/offload containers, Rice, Chemicals and Diesel are expected to take berths at QICT, MW-2, EVTL and FOTCO respectively on Thursday, while three more containers ships, Hugo Schulte, CCNI Arauco & Prosper and an oil tanker Quetta and LNG carrier Ejnan and LPG carrier Tiamat Gas are due to at Port Qasim on Friday.