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Jawaharlal Nehru Port (JNPT) in Mumbai is choked with containers, prompting lines to divert vessels from the Indian gateway.
All the three terminals are reporting severe delays, the Hindu Business Line reported. According to one estimate, the collective yard is host to some 50,000 TEUs and the ICD is holding around 9,000.
Of this, nearly 67 percent comprises boxes bound for New Delhi and the National Capital region.
Hamburg Sud, operating a service between Europe-West Asia-India-Pakistan, has informed its customers that it will route via Mundra port all cargo bound for Ahmedabad, Delhi (ICD Tughlakabad, Dadri and Loni), Jaipur, Jodhpur and Ludhiana.
Safmarine has announced a diversion of all north India bound boxes to Pipavav port "to provide better transit time to customers in North Indian ICDs." Maersk and CMA CGM are also planning to shift their north India bound traffic to Pipavav.
Cargonews Asia
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