Congestion has hit Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) again — the number of import containers awaiting evacuation being more 14,000 TEUs with another 1,000 TEUs awaiting Customs clearance, reported The Hindu.
Predictably, the authorities of the port have sought immediate intervention of the Container Corporation of India (Concor).
“While we understand the imbalance between imports and exports at this stage, Concor could have averted this congestion by interacting with shipping lines continuously to envisage the flow of cargo well in advance as the port has no role in nomination of import containers to a particular inland depot,” port authorities stated in a communiqué to Concor.
The authorities had earlier agreed to allocate an additional dedicated rail line to facilitate quicker evacuation of accumulated boxes from DP World’s terminal.
The present congestion, as Concor sources point out, has been thrown up by a mismatch — with imports exceeding exports. The average daily loading of import containers by Concor at JNPT is about 18-19 trains against the arrival of 14-15 trains of exports. In the first two months of the current fiscal year, imports totalled 131,000 TEUs and exports 89,700 TEUs.
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