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 ...
JNPT sets new record of handling container traffic
The Dollar Business Bureau Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT), India’s largest container port, handled 4.48 million TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units) of container traffic in the calendar year 2015 as compared to 4.47 million TEUs handled in 2014, thereby registering a growth of 0.10%. “This is the highest ever container traffic handled in a calendar year since the inception of JNPT,” Ministry of Shipping said in a statement. Out of the total container traffic of 4.48 million TEUs, the share of Jawaharlal Nehru Port Container Terminal (JNPCT) is 1.37 million TEUs – the highest since the inception of the port, surpassing the previous record of 1.35 million TEUs in the year 2006 - which was 30.63% of the total container traffic ...
Congestion grounds export consignments at Gateway Terminals India
Sisir Pradhan | The Dollar Business Export container movement at Gateway Terminals India has been affected after the terminal closed south entrance gate starting from Sunday, April 12, 2015. Brihanmumbai Custom House Agents’ Association (BCHAA) has issued a ‘trade advisory’ in this regard. The association’s export committee chairman Milan Desai in an official ‘trade advisory’ said that the south gate entrance to the terminal was closed on April 12, 2015 and is non-functional. The outside queue for the terminal was about six kms with trailers in two rows. The gate operation was also very slow and trailer turnaround time at the terminal was on average five hours. Similarly, traffic queue outside the gates of Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) ...
