KARACHI: Six ships, African Horn Bill, Free State, Star Antares, SC Tianjin, Yu Fu and Al-Thumama scheduled to load/offload Cement, Coal, Chemicals, Palm oil and LNG took berths at Multi-purpose Terminal, Port Qasim Electric Power Terminal, Pakistan International Bulk terminal, Engro Vopak terminal, Liquid cargo terminal and Engro Elengy Terminal respectively on Wednesday.
Meanwhile three more ships scheduled to load/offload Containers, Condensate and Diesel oil also arrived al outer anchorage of Port during last 24 hours.
A total twelve ships namely, GSL Tianjin, MSC Heidi, Daytona Beach, African Horn Bill, Star Antares, Free State, Low Land Amstel, ST Cergue, Sakizaya Champion, SC Tianjin, Al Thumama and Yu Fu are currently occupying PQA berths to load/offload Containers, Rice, Cement, Soya Bean seeds, Coal, Chemicals, LNG and Palm oil respectively during last 24 hours.
A record cargo handling was achieved at the port on Wednesday where a cargo volume of 222,321 tonnes, comprising 165,265 tonnes import cargo and 57,056 tonnes export cargo inclusive of containerized cargo carried in 3,290 containers (TEUs), (795 TEUS imports and 2,495 TEUs exports) was handled during last 24 hours.
Two ships, container vessel GSL Tianjin and Bulk cargo carrier ST Cergue sailed out to sea on Thursday morning, while two more ships, MSC Heidi and SC Tianjin are expected to sail on same day.
Four ships, and MSC Saturn, Tucapel, New Actively and Chemroad Quest scheduled to load/offload containers, Condensate and Phosphoric Acid are expected to take berths at QICT, FOTCO and EVTL respectively on Thursday.
