Jawaharlal Nehru Port's 2008 box volume rises 7.5pc
India's Port of Jawaharlal Nehru, in the Mumbai area, the country's biggest container terminal, posted a 7.5 per cent increase in container traffic in 2008 over 4.17 million TEU moved in 2007.
Within this total, Gateway Terminals, operated by AP Moller-Maersk, handled the greatest volume of containers at 1.52 million TEU, followed by DP World-managed Nhava Sheva International Container Terminal at 1.46 million TEU, and the state-owned terminal with 1.19 million TEU, reports Newark's Journal of Commerce.
Earlier forecasts indicated Jawaharlal Nehru will see container throughput rise to 4.5 million TEU in fiscal 2008-09 ending March 31, up from 4.06 million TEU in fiscal 2007-08.
The nearby Port of Mumbai said in a statement that its container traffic between April and December 2008 declined by seven per cent compared with the same period the year before to 77,349 TEU, down from 82,781 TEU in 2007.
India's second largest container port, Chennai, handled 1.2 million TEU in 2008, up from 1.05 million TEU in 2007, with its April to December box volume totalling 895,447 TEU.
Tuticorin's PSA-Sical Terminal handled 367,001 TEU between April 2008 and January 2009.
Within this total, Gateway Terminals, operated by AP Moller-Maersk, handled the greatest volume of containers at 1.52 million TEU, followed by DP World-managed Nhava Sheva International Container Terminal at 1.46 million TEU, and the state-owned terminal with 1.19 million TEU, reports Newark's Journal of Commerce.
Earlier forecasts indicated Jawaharlal Nehru will see container throughput rise to 4.5 million TEU in fiscal 2008-09 ending March 31, up from 4.06 million TEU in fiscal 2007-08.
The nearby Port of Mumbai said in a statement that its container traffic between April and December 2008 declined by seven per cent compared with the same period the year before to 77,349 TEU, down from 82,781 TEU in 2007.
India's second largest container port, Chennai, handled 1.2 million TEU in 2008, up from 1.05 million TEU in 2007, with its April to December box volume totalling 895,447 TEU.
Tuticorin's PSA-Sical Terminal handled 367,001 TEU between April 2008 and January 2009.