Setting records comes easily to Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT). It is something that the facility has excelled in over the years, enabled by supportive government policies, forward-looking managements, dedicated employees, and the continuous and growing patronage of its users.
A few months after achieving a record throughput of 4.83 million TEUs in 2017-18, JN Port has crossed another significant milestone by handling over 5 million TEUs in calendar year 2018. The throughput was close to 5.04 million TEUs on the last day of the year at the time of going to press, an enormous figure that speaks volumes of the efficient operations at the port terminals, world class infrastructure, stakeholder support and management policies, among others.
This year’s throughput is a considerable improvement over the 4.71 million TEUs the port handled in calendar year 2017, which is reflective of its steadfast and growing stature as the No. 1 container gateway for India’s international trade—despite the increasing competition from other ports and terminals.
It is the port’s individual terminals that make up the whole. The volumes were again led by GTI, with 2.07 million TEUs, while JNPCT handled 1.17 million TEUs. NSICT, NSIGT and BMCT had throughputs of 0.56, 0.89 and 0.33 million TEUs, respectively.
One can now expect the fiscal year (2018-19) volumes to be even better. And the records look set to continue after the 4.8-million TEU capacity 4th container terminal is built in its entirety and the port’s many other infrastructure augmentation projects come to fruition.
