Syedain Raza Zaidi, Chairman, Karachi Port Trust (KPT), has announced that bulk carrier Tomini Felicity is still loading cement at KPT in 1.5t jumbo bags destined for Houston, Texas USA. He was speaking at an event to mark the first-ever shipment to the USA, attended by officials of DG Khan Cement and other stakeholders in Karachi today.

Chairman KPT added that it is a great achievement for Pakistani cement manufacturers to obtain huge orders in a very competitive environment and hopefully would benefit Pakistan when it needs foreign reserves.

The USA delegation recently visited Karachi Port to review the shipment facility earlier.

A DG Khan announcement says that we are gathered in Karachi to celebrate and announce that we have secured an order from a Group in the USA to supply 50,000t of cement every month for the next twelve months totalling 600,000t. This figure could double if all goes well.

The USA presently import cement from Mexico, Canada, Vietnam, Turkey and Turkey.

D.G. Khan Cement Company Limited (DGKCC) is among largest the cement manufacturers in Pakistan, with a production capacity of 22,400 tons per day (6.72Mta). DGKCC has four cement plants, two located at Dera Ghazi Khan and one at Khairpur Distt. Chakwal and one at Hub Lasbela District (Balochistan). All the plants are based on the latest Dry Process Technology.

Pakistan’s cement and clinker exports in the first ten months of FY21-22 (July 2021 to April 2022) earned US$203.83m in revenue by dispatching 5.312Mt of cement and clinker overseas to US$225.05m from 6.624Mt of exports in the year-ago period. Consequently, the sector saw a fall of 9.43 per cent in dollar terms and reported a double-digit decline of 19.70 per cent in volume during the export period. The negative trend also noted exports valued in Pakistani rupees, which eroded by 3.05 per cent to PKR35.241bn during this period.

Pakistan has been exporting clinker and cement to Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Madagascar, South Africa, Tanzania, India and now the USA.