The total export cargo of 3,680 tonnes comprised of 3,680 tonnes of containerised cargo. As many as 3,545 containers comprising of 2,789 containers import and 756 containers export were handled during the last 24 hours on Thursday. The breakup of imported containers shows 757 of 20's and 922 of 40's loaded while nil of 20's and 94 of 40's empty containers, whereas that of exported containers shows 114 of 20's and 53 of 40's loaded containers while 132 of 20's and 202 of 40's empty containers were handled during the business hours.
There were six ships namely KMTC Mumbai, MT Karachi, Doric Victory, Nordic Tianjin, Dream Jasmine and Heilan Brother carrying containers, oil tanker, coal, vehicle and general cargo respectively sailed out to sea during the reported period. There was ten vessel viz. Kota Layar, Kota Nilam, Sti Memphis, Bengal Orchid, Rowan-3, Alam Manis, Dream Jasmine, African Falcon, Roelof and BBC Ocean carrying containers, oil tankers, coal, vehicle, steel and general cargo respectively currently at the berths. There was one ship namely African Falcon carrying steel sailed out to sea on Thursday, while two ships namely Lark and Aragonit carrying coal and DAP respectively are expected to sail on Friday.
There were three vessels Sima Genesis, Calix and BW Amazon carrying containers, soyabean meal and chemical respectively due to arrive on Thursday while seven vessels viz. Al Farahidi, APL Japan, Bodo Schulte, DL Violet, Frontier Ace, Tansy and Global Phoenix carrying containers, chemical, vehicle and coal respectively are due to arrive on Friday.
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