JNPCT handles highest container traffic in Apr 2016 

The Dollar Business Bureau

JNPCT (Jawaharlal Nehru Port Container Terminal), one of JN Port’s three terminals, has handled 133,195 TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent unit) in April this year. Since its establishment, this is the highest traffic handled by the terminal in a month.

A comparison on month-to-month basis shows that the throughput in April 2016 has witnessed a growth rate of 35 percent than the same month last year.

In addition, during the year 2015-16, the port registered a growth of 12 percent over the average cargo handling on monthly basis. The previous highest traffic handled by the terminal was 132155 TEUs, during the month of August 2015. 

JN Port, the biggest container handling port in India, handles around 56 percent of the containerised cargo in the country.

The Port, operated by the port authority, has handled container traffic of around 4.467 million TEUs during the fiscal of 2014-15, a growth of 7.33 percent. Since its inception, this is the highest ever container traffic handled by the JN port in a year and 56.13 percent of the combined container traffic of the major ports of India. 

Out of the combined traffic of 4.467 million TEUs, the share of the JNPCT was 1.294 million TEUs (29 percent), Nhava Sheva International Container Terminal’s (NSICT) share was 1.160 million TEUs (26 percent) and M/s APM Terminals had the remaining share of 2.012 million TEUs (45 percent).