Karachi Port operations

Published February 14, 2008

KARACHI, Feb 13: Seven ships including a carrier with 950 cars is due to arrive at the outer anchorage on Thursday, according to KPT sources.

Berthing activity at the wharves was modest where five ships, including Steela Deneb, to offload imported cows, St. Irene, to unload and load containers and Valinat, an oil tanker were berthed after the departure of four. The ships, which departed included Even Given, Kapitan Bankin, Longquimay, and Guan He Kou departed on Wednesday, while Steela Deneb, Jindal Kamla, APL Brisbane, St. Irene, Annita, Valiant, Orient Stride, Formosa Product Cosmos and Jewel-1 are due to sail out on Thursday.

Cargo handling activity at the wharves was maintained on the higher side where a total tonnage of 0.148m tons comprising 47,998 tons of export cargo and 0.100m tons of import tonnage was handled on Wednesday.

The following ships are due on Thursday: Frontier Ace, with 950 cars, Adriatic Wind, with 25,000 tons of palm oil, Augusta, and Eric G. Gibson, with containers, Anastasia, with coal, Carla, and Iron Butterfly, both with project cargo.

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