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New PSA terminal at JNPT, India ramps up competition for market share
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PSA International's new container terminal has opened at Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) in India, and already looks poised to upset the status quo since PSA's Bharat Mumbai Container Terminals (BMCT) has already taken a major customer away from APM Terminals-operated Gateway Terminals India (GTI).
Local trade sources told IHS Media that an eight-vessel consortium led by Hapag Lloyd in the India-Europe trade will start calling at BMCT on February 11 with the arrival of the 10,114 TEU Express Rome.
Officials at APM Terminals Mumbai (APMT Mumbai) downplayed the setback, stating that the loss has been offset by the addition of a new weekly intra-Asia service jointly introduced by Cosco Container Lines and Wan Hai Lines. GTI will hold its first call from the intra-Asia, five-vessel loop on February 10.
Hapag Lloyd operates the Europe-Pakistan-India Consortium 2 (EPIC 2) service through a vessel sharing agreement (VSA) with Hamburg Sud and CMA CGM. Eight vessels are deployed on the service with capacities ranging from 8,000 TEU to 10,000 TEU.
The port rotation for the EPIC2 is: Hamburg, Antwerp, London Gateway, Tanger Med, Jeddah, Khor al Fakkan, Jebel Ali, port Qasim, Mundra, Nhava Sheva (JNPT), Jeddah, Tanger Med, and back to Hamburg on a 56-day round-trip voyage.
"Our berths will hopefully remain full," APMT Mumbai officials said. However, it should be highlighted that vessels used in the Cosco-Wan Hai route are half the size of those in the EPIC2, which could mean much lower liftings for GTI.
BMCT performed a total of 650 export-import moves on its maiden call from the 3,426-TEU Centaurus, one of five ships deployed in the Swahili Express (SWAX) service under a CMA CGM-Emirates Shipping Line VSA in the India-Africa trade. The SWAX previously used DP World-operated Nhava Sheva International Container Terminal (NSICT).
With a berth line of 1,000 metres, a 90-hectare storage yard with 9,336 ground slots, 12 quay cranes, four rail-mounted gantry cranes, 36 rubber-tire gantry cranes, and 324 reefer slots, BMCT increases JNPT's capacity by 2.4 million TEU per year and will add another 2.4 million TEU when the second phase is ready by 2022.
Local trade sources told IHS Media that an eight-vessel consortium led by Hapag Lloyd in the India-Europe trade will start calling at BMCT on February 11 with the arrival of the 10,114 TEU Express Rome.
Officials at APM Terminals Mumbai (APMT Mumbai) downplayed the setback, stating that the loss has been offset by the addition of a new weekly intra-Asia service jointly introduced by Cosco Container Lines and Wan Hai Lines. GTI will hold its first call from the intra-Asia, five-vessel loop on February 10.
Hapag Lloyd operates the Europe-Pakistan-India Consortium 2 (EPIC 2) service through a vessel sharing agreement (VSA) with Hamburg Sud and CMA CGM. Eight vessels are deployed on the service with capacities ranging from 8,000 TEU to 10,000 TEU.
The port rotation for the EPIC2 is: Hamburg, Antwerp, London Gateway, Tanger Med, Jeddah, Khor al Fakkan, Jebel Ali, port Qasim, Mundra, Nhava Sheva (JNPT), Jeddah, Tanger Med, and back to Hamburg on a 56-day round-trip voyage.
"Our berths will hopefully remain full," APMT Mumbai officials said. However, it should be highlighted that vessels used in the Cosco-Wan Hai route are half the size of those in the EPIC2, which could mean much lower liftings for GTI.
BMCT performed a total of 650 export-import moves on its maiden call from the 3,426-TEU Centaurus, one of five ships deployed in the Swahili Express (SWAX) service under a CMA CGM-Emirates Shipping Line VSA in the India-Africa trade. The SWAX previously used DP World-operated Nhava Sheva International Container Terminal (NSICT).
With a berth line of 1,000 metres, a 90-hectare storage yard with 9,336 ground slots, 12 quay cranes, four rail-mounted gantry cranes, 36 rubber-tire gantry cranes, and 324 reefer slots, BMCT increases JNPT's capacity by 2.4 million TEU per year and will add another 2.4 million TEU when the second phase is ready by 2022.