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India's JNPT handles 4.83m TEU in FY2017-18, up 7.4pc
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INDIA's Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) finished fiscal year 2017-2018 with a record container throughput volume of 4.83 million TEU and is now looking to take advantage of the 2.4-million-TEU capacity injection from PSA International's new Bharat Mumbai Container Terminals (BMCT).
At JNPT, India's largest public port, container throughput for the fiscal year that ended March 31 rose by 7.4 per cent compared with fiscal 2016-2017, according to port data collected by JOC.com.
The volume total was led by the APM Terminals-operated Gateway Terminals India, whose annual traffic rose by 13 per cent to 2.03 million TEU, up from 1.8 million TEU the previous year.
Port-owned Jawaharlal Nehru Container Terminal (JNCT), however, registered a 3.4 per cent year-on-year decline to 1.48 million TEU, IHS Media reported.
This comes as some ocean liners have reorganised their berthing window arrangements at JNPT to achieve economies of scale and higher productivity rates, following the opening of BMCT. As a result, JNCT lost the weekly Indamex service in the India-North America trade to DP World's Nhava Sheva (India) Gateway Terminal (NSIGT).
DP World Nhava Sheva, which includes Nhava Sheva International Container Terminal (NSICT), also had mixed results last year. NSIGT's volume soared 48 per cent to 659,400 TEU from 445,111 TEU a year ago, with the terminal benefitting from the Dubai-based company's operational realignment at JNPT to lessen the impact of royalty payments and tariff complications.
However, NSICT suffered a 12 per cent decline in box throughput to 641,122 TEU. New concessionaire BMCT, which began full operations in early February, loaded and discharged 23,212 TEU in the first two months of this year.
In spite of productivity improvements, JNPT faces fierce competition since private port rival Mundra is working hard to expand its hinterland reach and ocean carriers are increasingly undertaking multiple west coast port calls to maximise liftings. One example is MSC, which is revising its India-Europe service network to include weekly sailings from JNPT, Mundra and Hazira.
At JNPT, India's largest public port, container throughput for the fiscal year that ended March 31 rose by 7.4 per cent compared with fiscal 2016-2017, according to port data collected by JOC.com.
The volume total was led by the APM Terminals-operated Gateway Terminals India, whose annual traffic rose by 13 per cent to 2.03 million TEU, up from 1.8 million TEU the previous year.
Port-owned Jawaharlal Nehru Container Terminal (JNCT), however, registered a 3.4 per cent year-on-year decline to 1.48 million TEU, IHS Media reported.
This comes as some ocean liners have reorganised their berthing window arrangements at JNPT to achieve economies of scale and higher productivity rates, following the opening of BMCT. As a result, JNCT lost the weekly Indamex service in the India-North America trade to DP World's Nhava Sheva (India) Gateway Terminal (NSIGT).
DP World Nhava Sheva, which includes Nhava Sheva International Container Terminal (NSICT), also had mixed results last year. NSIGT's volume soared 48 per cent to 659,400 TEU from 445,111 TEU a year ago, with the terminal benefitting from the Dubai-based company's operational realignment at JNPT to lessen the impact of royalty payments and tariff complications.
However, NSICT suffered a 12 per cent decline in box throughput to 641,122 TEU. New concessionaire BMCT, which began full operations in early February, loaded and discharged 23,212 TEU in the first two months of this year.
In spite of productivity improvements, JNPT faces fierce competition since private port rival Mundra is working hard to expand its hinterland reach and ocean carriers are increasingly undertaking multiple west coast port calls to maximise liftings. One example is MSC, which is revising its India-Europe service network to include weekly sailings from JNPT, Mundra and Hazira.