Lucky Cement Limited announced that the company has successfully started operation of export oriented loose cement storage and ship loading terminal at Berth 25 West Wharf, Karachi Port. This is a state of the art project based on latest technology from Europe and the first of its kind in the South East Asia and Middle East Region, said an official announcement of the company at Karachi Stock Exchange on Feb. 27, 2009.
On arrival of ships the loose cement is pumped directly into sea going vessels from storage facility through complete automatic machinery.
It is stated that the total storage capacity of this terminal is 24,000t of loose cement which is divided into four steel fabricated silos with individual storage capacity of 6000t each.
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