New Parking facility to ease port traffic at APM Terminals
The Dollar Business Bureau To ensure smooth movement of vehicles, APM Terminals Mumbai at the Jawaharlal Nehru Port (JNP) has opened a new parking facility which will provide easy access for tractor trailers carrying export cargoes. The new facility is exclusively for handling of factory-stuffed export containers arriving via road, bound for outgoing vessel calls at the terminal. In view of the fact that “factory-stuffed cargo covers 70% of the gate movements at APM Terminals”, JNP authorities reserved the parking space to streamline access for port users and to alleviate local traffic congestion at the terminal. As the terminal witnesses almost half of JNP’s overall traffic volume, congestion due to illegal parking by unauthorized truckers often becomes a serious challenge at the ...
APM Terminals Mumbai handles record 2.01 mn TEUs in FY2014-15
The Dollar Business Bureau APM Terminals Mumbai one of three terminals currently operating at Jawaharlal Nehru Port (JNP), is India’s largest container port, accounting for 45% of JNP’s throughput, and approximately 20% of India’s total container traffic. Recently, the Terminals established a new record for Indian ports by handling a total of 2.01 million TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent unit) during the Fiscal Year of 2014-15, from April 1, 2014 to March 31, 2015. The growth in the container traffic was achieved mainly due to the deepening of the Mumbai harbour channel in 2014 combined with an increase in the vessel size and container volumes. The increase, however, is straining the existing Indian port infrastructure, which must also deal with regulatory issues ...
