Agricultural Commodities

Port of Karachi is an all-round port for agricultural commodities. In KPT you will find a broad selection of services for the transshipment and storage of agricultural products, such as corn, grains, rice, soybeans and oilseeds, such as rapeseed. Furthermore, port region includes various leading companies with expertise in processing and trading agricultural commodities. The large quantities of cargo this involves produce attractive economies of scale for the food, animal feed and biofuel industries.

Coal Import & Transshipment

Karachi Port is the heart of the coal transshipment sector in Pakistan. No other port transships as much thermal coal and coking coal as the Port of Karachi. KPT is not only a transshipment port of coal for power plants and blast-furnaces in Pakistan. Karachi Port handles coal transshipment for seven coal-fired power plants in Pakistan.

Karachi Port is the port of choice for the supply and transshipment of coal to destinations in Pakistan and conjunction with China as part of Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative. The port’s maximum water depth is 16 meters, making it the only port in the Pakistan where maximum size vessels can discharge and load their dry bulk coal. The port consequently offers attractive economies of scale.

Industrial Minerals Import & Transshipment

Karachi Port is an important hub for industrial minerals and other raw materials for the construction, chemical and steel industries in Pakistan and Central Asia. KPT is strategically located with excellent connections on the basis of an intermodal network. The extensive offer of transshipment, storage and value-added services, and the presence of a strong chemical cluster make the Port of Karachi attractive for the import and export of industrial minerals such as alumina, iron alloys, magnesite, salt, borates, sand, cement, clinker and gravel.

Terminals and storage of bulk minerals and construction materials

KPT is a comprehensive port: various appropriate, reliable terminals and freight forwarders are present for any type of mineral or raw material for the construction industry. There are many suppliers, which means that you can always find a service provider that optimally meets your requirements, whether it concerns valuable minerals that require storage under specific, contamination-free conditions or construction materials that can be stored in the open air.

Distribution of minerals within Central Asia

Its excellent intermodal connections to destinations throughout Central Asia, make KPT an important transshipment port. In addition to the terminals, there are also buoys and dolphins that make direct ship-to-ship handling possible. Following their arrival in the port via deep sea vessel, the minerals can immediately be distributed across nationally and internationally, for example, so that these products can quickly be on their way to their final destination.