The total container traffic has reached an all-time high at the New Mangalore Port Trust (NMPT). The port handled a total of 21,859 TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units) of containers during the current financial year as against 14,607 TEUs in the corresponding period of the previous fiscal, recording a growth of 49.65 per cent. Highest-ever so far Mr P. Tamilvanan, NMPT Chairman, said that the port has crossed the total container traffic of 2007-08.
During the last financial year, it handled 21,460 TEUs of containers.
This is also the highest container traffic handled at the port, since it was introduced in March 2000. He said NMPT is hopeful of handling 30,000 TEUs of container traffic by the end of the current financial year.
The number of container vessels handled at the port also increased to 41 during the current year as against 32 in the previous fiscal.
The average parcel size of the vessels also increased during year. Mr Tamilvanan said that there is increase in the handling of cargoes such as raw cashew, coffee, reefer cargo, cashew kernels, project cargo, gherkins and wooden logs.
He attributed the reasons for the increase in the container traffic to the infrastructure addition and improvement at the port, and to the efficient handling by port workers and better planning by port officers and staff.
He said the increase in arrival of mainline container vessels to New Mangalore Port with raw cashew containers, which were earlier transhipped mostly at Colombo Port, is a boon to the trade here.
During the last financial year, it handled 21,460 TEUs of containers.
This is also the highest container traffic handled at the port, since it was introduced in March 2000. He said NMPT is hopeful of handling 30,000 TEUs of container traffic by the end of the current financial year.
The number of container vessels handled at the port also increased to 41 during the current year as against 32 in the previous fiscal.
The average parcel size of the vessels also increased during year. Mr Tamilvanan said that there is increase in the handling of cargoes such as raw cashew, coffee, reefer cargo, cashew kernels, project cargo, gherkins and wooden logs.
He attributed the reasons for the increase in the container traffic to the infrastructure addition and improvement at the port, and to the efficient handling by port workers and better planning by port officers and staff.
He said the increase in arrival of mainline container vessels to New Mangalore Port with raw cashew containers, which were earlier transhipped mostly at Colombo Port, is a boon to the trade here.