Blackout at JNPT on May 1, traders worried about reefers
Sisir Pradhan | The Dollar Business Movement of export and import containers are likely to be affected at India’s most busiest container port, Jawaharlal Nehru Port (JNP) in the coming days as the port authorities have announced a total blackout for maintenance work on May 1. The worst hit are likely to be reefer containers as diesel motor powered generators will feed only 190 numbers of refrigerated cargo containers at the port. Notably, the port is facing congestion issues as Gateway Terminals India (GTI), which handles around 20% of India’s total container traffic, closed its south entrance gate for export cargo starting from Sunday, 12th April 2015. Read here: JNP, which handled 4.16 million TEUs of container traffic ...
