India's Nehru Port handled 64.21m tons of cargo, 4.25m TEUs in 2012
Shri L. Radhakrishnan, IAS, Chairman, JNPT announced the performance achieved in calendar year 2012 in the customary New Year Meeting with the Port customers and stake holders/ agencies at the Port Administration Building here on January 2, 2013, Daily Shipping Times reported.
During the meet, he pointed out that Jawaharlal Nehru Port (JN Port) handled 64.21 million tonnes cargo and 4.25 million TEUs containers in 2012.
JNPCT (the port's own terminal) handled 1.2 million TEUs and registered highest annual growth of 23.48% over the last calendar year. GTIPL and NSICT handled1.96 million TEUs (with growth of 3.64%) and 1.9 million TEUs (with reduction of 24.64% ) respectively.
Of the total, the share of containerized cargo was 57.78 million tonnes (89.98%), liquid cargo 5.70 million tonnes (8.88%) and the remaining 0.73 million tonnes (1.14%) was miscellaneous cargo in the form of dry bulk and break-bulk.
Addressing the gathering, the Chairman conveyed his New Year Greetings to all and informed the achievements of 2012.
These included the commencement of the channel to the 14 m dredging (15% completed) enabling JNPT to bring bigger sizes of vessel, the award of PPP for 330 meter quay of 0.8 million TEUs capacity.
The commissioning of & twin lift RMQCs at the JNPCT etc. The resolving of the long pending issue of allotment 12.5 % land to the PAPs pending since the inception of the port was also a land able achievement.
The Chairman informed that steps are underway to develop additional capacity to match the demand from trade by developing the two container terminals totaling around 5 million TEUs p.a. capacity, these will be completed in 3 years simultaneously.
The demand on the second phase of dredging for deepening the channel upto 17 meter to accommodate new generation vessels are being prepared by M/s TCE and Ernst and Young jointly.
An SEZ of 750 acrs of area is beingdeveloped.
The first phase landdevelopment, is to be done in 2013 -14. The 5th Mega container terminal of Nhava with an additional 10 million TEUS p.acapacity is being designed by M/s URS Scott Wilson.
An additional liquid handling capacity of 30 m tonnes p.a. will be result in a being designed byM/s L&T Ramboll. Additional bulk/break bulk berths with modern facilities, coal berths, logistic parks and green initiatives for non-conventional energy and water conservation are other projects in the pipeline.
The Chairman expressed gratitude for the support from the Port's customers, terminal operators, employees, the trade and all stake holders for the success of all JNPT's activities.
Further, there was a cake cutting ceremony which was presided by Mr. L. Radhakrishnan, Chairman of Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT), along with the Heads of Department and Senior Officials of the Port. Representatives of the trade .
Shri N.K.Kulkarni , Chief Manager(Admn.) &Secy in his concluding remarks specially thanked CISF for providing excellent security and gave the credit for record achievements and advance planning for the project to the dynamic leadership of the Chairman Shri L. Radhakrishnan.