JNPT records 5.11% growth in container traffic in Q1
The Dollar Business Bureau Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT), India’s biggest container port, recorded a rise of 5.11% in container traffic by handling 1.20 million TEUs, during the first three months of the current fiscal over the same period last year. “India’s largest container port, Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT), registered a 5.11% growth in container traffic in the first quarter of the current financial year by handling 1.20 million TEUs as compared to 1.14 million TEUs in the corresponding quarter of the last financial year,” Ministry of Shipping said in a statement. TEU or twenty-foot equivalent unit are used for measuring the cargo carrying capacity of a ship. Port owned container terminal, Jawaharlal Nehru Port Container Terminal (JNPCT) handled 4.01 lakh TEUs during the April-June ...
Week-long strike comes to an end at Nhava Sheva port
The Dollar Business Bureau APM Terminals Mumbai has announced that labour issues related to its outsourced RTG (Rubber Tire Gantry) cranes’ operators has been resolved and normal operations have resumed from Wednesday. Due to the strike by RTG operators, container handling operations have been severely affected at the terminal for the last week, leading to congestion and delay in sailing of vessels. APM Terminals Mumbai, also known as Gateway Terminals India (GTI), is India’s largest container terminal handling facility and one of the three major terminals of Jawaharlal Nehru Port. The terminal had handled 2.01 Million TEUs in FY2014-15, representing approximately 20% of India’s total containerised cargo. APM Terminals Mumbai has said that a fresh round of discussions on August 11 between ...
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 ...
