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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 ...

The Dollar Business Bureau April 2017 saw an increase in cargo movement at India's 12 major ports, which handled a total capacity of 55.75 million tonnes (mt) during the month. An increase of 6.27% was recorded, in comparison with the cargo volume reported in April 2016, which stood at 52.46 mt. The increase in cargo traffic was attributed to the rising demand demonstrated for raw materials like iron ore and coking coal. During the month, Iron ore volumes spiked by 40% to 5.37 mt while coking coal traffic grew by 15% to 4.61 mt. Demand in the container traffic sector also shot up, as a result of which volumes rose by 9.78% to 7 lakh TEUs (twenty foot equivalent units). POL (petrol, oil and lubricants) also witnessed a rise of 7% in ...

 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 ...

The Dollar Business Bureau The traditional Plaque being handed by Mr. Raymond Samervel, Director Commercial, China Shipping India Pvt Ltd and his team to Master of H.S.Paris   HS Paris, part of the China Shipping Containers reached APM Terminals, Mumbai for the first time on March 20, 2015. The maiden call was made as part of the Middle East-Indian Subcontinent-North America (MINA) Service, jointly operated by the United Arab Shipping Company, Hanjin Shipping, CMA CGM and China Shipping.  The 6,500 TEU capacity HS Paris completed 1,292 import and export moves in approximately 12 hours, for a berth productivity of 106 moves per hour. The MINA Service operates on fixed-day weekly sailing linking Khor Fakkan, Jebel Ali, Port Qasim, Nhava Sheva (APM Terminals ...

 The Dollar Business Bureau As part of its ongoing efforts to provide a safe working environment to all stakeholders, APM Terminals Mumbai is now in the final stages of completing its container weighing project that will help in identifying weights in mis-declared containers. The terminal also known as Gateway Terminals India (GTI) set a new benchmark recording 164,678 TEUs in February 2015 surpassing its previous high container handling of 162,946 TEUs in February 2013. The February volumes recorded at GTI in 2015 is the highest throughput achieved by an Indian container terminal in the given month. “APM Terminals Mumbai ranks among the top four productive terminals globally. Special thanks to the trade for appreciating the various initiative undertaken at ...