KARACHI: Shipping activity remained active at the port where three ships, OOCL Washington, Central Park and Thor Courage carrying Containers, Chemicals and Coal were arranged berthing at Qasim International Container Terminal, Engro Vopak Terminal and Port Qasim Electric Power Terminal respectively on Thursday,1st March-2018.
Meanwhile two more Container ships, CMA CGM Amazon and Qingdao Tower, and a LPG carrier Tomson Gas also arrived at outer anchorage of Port Qasim during last 24 hours. Berth occupancy was observed at the port at forty seven percent on Thursday where a total of eight ships namely, OOCL Washington, MSC Busan, Amadeus, Ionna Pol, Thor Courage, Central Park, Yuhua Star and Al-Salam-II were occupying at PQA berths to load/offload Containers, Soya been seeds, Coal, Phosphoric Acid, Palm oil and Diesel oil during last 24 hours.
Cargo volume of 88,347 tonnes, comprising 59,277 tonnes import cargo and 29,070 tonnes export cargo inclusive of containerized cargo carried in 1,685 Containers (TEUs), (155 TEUs imports and 1,530 TEUs exports) was handled at the port during last 24 hours.
Four ships, Central Park, Yuhua Star, OOCL Washington and Ionna Pol sailed out to sea on Friday morning, while containers vessel Qingdao Tower is expected to sail at night hours. Following ships are currently at outer anchorage for waiting to berths.
A total of seven ships, CMA CGM Amazon, Qingdao Tower, Uni Florida, Pacific Victory, Tomson Gas, Chemroad Sirius and Petali Lady carrying Containers, Coal, LPG, Palm oil and Diesel oil are expected to take berth at QICT, MW-4, SSGC, LCT and FOTCO respectively on Friday, 2nd March. while another bulk cargo carrier “Caravos Liberty” is due to arrive at Port Qasim on same day, and four more ships CMA CGM Narmada, Jack London, Libra and Al-Dasma with containers and Diesel oil are due to arrive at Port Qasim on Saturday, 3rd March, and MS Tiger is due to arrive on Sunday, 4th March. Container vessels MSC Silvana, MSC Saturn and Express Makalu and Gas carrier C-Express are due to arrive Monday, 5th March-2018.
