Tag: Tonnes

Truck with 40 metric tonnes of copper stolen

QUETTA: A truck carrying 40 metric tonnes of blister copper extracted in the Saindak Copper-Gold Project was stolen last week in the coastal district of Lasbela, Pakistan Today learned on Thursday.
According to sources, the vehicle was part of a convoy of about 32 trucks, all carrying blister copper - mixture of Copper and Gold - from Saindak to Karachi under the heavy escort of Balochistan Frontier Corps and Pakistan Customs.
They said that the truck went missing somewhere

125,000 tonnes of sugar destined for Punjab

KARACHI: Eight out of 45 sugar mills in Punjab have begun crushing and the rest will commence processing shortly, Punjab Food Minister Chaudhry Abdul Ghafoor stated on Wednesday.
"The remaining sugar mills have ignited their boilers and farmers have started harvesting standing cane crop," he said, while addressing a news conference after reviewing the loading of Punjab's sugar quota from the Trading Corporation of Pakistan (TCP). "At least 25,000 metric tonnes of imported white

Punjab acquiring 100,000 tonnes of sugar to resolve crisis

LAHORE: In a bid to rein in the price of sugar in the province, the Punjab government has decided to acquire 100,000 tonnes of imported sugar from the Trading Corporation of Pakistan (TCP).
In this regard, Punjab Food Secretary Irfan Elahi has left for Karachi to purchase the requisite sugar stock. Talking to reporters at the airport, Elahi said the provincial government had decided to control skyrocketing price of sugar and he was going to Karachi to make immediate arrangements