The Major Ports recorded a growth of 4.83 per cent and together handled 461.21 million tonnes of cargo during the period April to November 2018 as against 439.96 million tonnes handled during the corresponding period of the previous year.
For the said period, nine ports—Kolkata (incl. Haldia), Paradip, Visakhapatnam, Kamarajar, Chennai, Cochin, New Mangalore, JNPT and Deendayal—registered positive growth in traffic.
Cargo traffic handled at the Major Ports
The highest growth was registered by Kamarajar Port (20.15 per cent), followed by Cochin (11.73 per cent), Paradip (9.73 per cent), Kolkata [inc. Haldia] (8.52 per cent) and Deendayal (7.37 per cent). Kamarajar Port’s growth was mainly due to increase in traffic of containers (19.8 per cent), other liquids (16.42 per cent), thermal and steam coal (10.71 per cent) and POL (9.24 per cent).
During April to November 2018, Deendayal Port handled the highest volume of traffic, i.e. 77.33 million tonnes (16.77 per cent share), followed by Paradip with 71.30 million tonnes (15.46 per cent share), JNPT with 46.40 million tonnes (10.06 per cent share), Visakhapatnam with 43.03 million tonnes (9.33 per cent share) and Mumbai with 40.32 million tonnes (8.74 per cent). Together, these ports handled around 60.36 per cent of Major Port traffic.
The commodity-wise percentage share of POL was maximum, i.e. 33.40 per cent, followed by container (20.71 per cent), thermal and steam coal (15.09 per cent), other misc. cargo (10.64 per cent), coking and other coal (8.13 per cent), iron ore and pellets (5.65 per cent), other liquid (4.25 per cent), finished fertiliser (1.18 per cent) and fertiliser raw materials (FRM) (0.95 per cent).
