KARACHI: Six ships, PS Milano, Devon Bay, Horizon, Sea Elegant and Tomson Gas scheduled to load/offload Condensate, Steel coil, Palm oil, Chemicals and Petroleum gas were arranged berthing at Oil Terminal, Multi-Purpose Terminal, Liquid Terminal, Engro Terminal and Sui Sothern Terminal respectively on Wednesday.
Meanwhile five more ships, Meratus Jayawijaya, Aristomenis, Jeeppesen Merask, Sunbird Arrow and Sea Bravery scheduled to load/offload Containers, Bitumen and Coal also arrived at outer anchorage of Port Qasim during last 24 hours.
PQA berths were engaged by eleven ships to load/offload Containers, Cement, Condensate, Coal, Soya bean, Chemicals, Petroleum gas and Palm oil, out of them, two Container vessels, Maersk Detroit and MSC Samu sailed out to sea on Thursday morning, and five more ships, Clipper Barolo, Devon Bay, Taxi Diara, Sea Elegant, Tomson Gas and are expected to sail from MW-2, MW-1, MW-4, EVTL and SSGC on same day (today) in the afternoon.
A cargo volume of 163, 717 tonnes, comprising 88, 442 tonnes imports cargo and 75, 275 tonnes export cargo, inclusive of containerized cargo carried in 3, 434 Containers (207 TEUs imports and 3, 227 TEUs export), was handled at the Port during last 24 hours.
There are Seventeen ships are currently at Outer Anchorage of Port Qasim and waiting for berths, out of them four ships, Sunbird Arrow, Aristomenis, Jeeppesen Merask and Jasco Zhang Zgou scheduled to load/offload Bitumen, Containers and Coal are expected take berths at MW-1, QICT and PIBT on Thursday, while two more ships, General cargo carrier ‘BBC Diamond’ and Container vessel ‘Xpress Euphrates’ are due to arrive at Port Qasim on same day, and other two Containers vessels Meratus Jayawijaya and CMA CGM Rigoletto & a gas carrier Maran Gas Tory are due to arrive on Friday.