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Mumbai Container Volume Surged 35 Percent

1/29/2011 9:42:01 AM

The volume of containers handled by India’s Port of Mumbai climbed 35 percent year-over-year in the nine months ending Dec. 31, the port authority said in a statement.

 

Container traffic for the first three quarters of the port’s fiscal year was estimated at 55,520 20-foot equivalent units, up from 41,162 TEUs.

 

Volume in December increased to 6,541 TEUs from 4,860 TEUs in the same month the previous year.

 

The west coast hub handled 40.66 million tons of cargo in the nine-month period, up 0.74 percent from 40.36 million tons a year earlier. Tonnage in December was on par with the year before, at 4.5 million tons.

 

The port handled 3,942 ship calls during April-December, down from 4,210 calls in the year-ago period.

 

The Journal of Commerce Online

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