Adani Ports and Special Economic Port Ltd (APSEZ) has begun work on expanding the container handling capacity at Mundra Port. Approximately Rs.1, 239 Cr will be spent on the project. The work on container terminal 5 has started which will add 1.2 million teus to the port capacity.
Mundra, the flagship port of APSEZ, India’s biggest private port operator, runs four container terminals with a combined capacity of 7.5 million teus. In Fy22, Mundra handled 6.5 million teus, 15% more than the 5.66 million teus handled in FY21. The higher container volumes helped Mundra clock an overall 4% growth in volumes to 150.24 million tonnes in FY22 from 144.38mt in the previous year.
