Container traffic through India’s Port of Jawaharlal Nehru reached an all-time high in fiscal 2010-11 ending March 31, buoyed by a strong turnaround in the country’s foreign trade.
Total volume handled by the west coast port’s three terminals increased 5 percent to 4.27 million 20-foot equivalent units from 4.06 million TEUs the previous fiscal year, according to latest traffic figures released by the port authority.
Gateway Terminals, operated by A.P. Moller-Maersk subsidiary APM Terminals, handled 1.85 million TEUs, up from 1.76 million TEUs a year earlier.
Volume via DP World’s Nhava Sheva International Container Terminal grew to 1.54 million TEUs from 1.53 million TEUs.
Traffic at the port-run terminal totaled 880,000 TEUs compared with 780,000 TEUs in 2009-10, which ended March 31, 2010.
Nehru is India’s largest container gateway, moving nearly 65 percent of the country’s total containerized export and import cargo.
The Journal of Commerce Online
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