In a significant landmark that buttresses its stature as the country’s premier container handling port, and is also reflective of India’s growing international trade, Jawaharlal Nehru Port (JNP) has crossed, for the first time, a throughput of 5 million teus in a fiscal. As per the latest information available at the time of going to press, the port had handled nearly 5.04 million teus in 2018-19, a few days before the end of the financial year.
It has thus become the first Indian port to cross this milestone. Its throughput was 4.83 million teus in 2017-18.
Of the port’s five terminals, APM Terminals Mumbai (GTI) maintained its No.1 position in volumes handled with over 2.01 million teus, while the Port Trust-run JNPCT registered 1.04 million teus.
DP World’s NSIGT and NSICT handled about 9.31 lakh and 5.47 lakh teus, respectively, while PSA International’s BMCT had a throughput of nearly 5.03 lakh teus, it is learnt.
