Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT), handled 459,920 million TEUs in the month of December, 2020, which is the highest container volume handled in a month, ever recorded in the last twenty months. The container traffic increased by 9.90% over the same month of last year and the overall traffic grew by 10.04% to 6.37 million tons from the 5.79 million tons handled in December-2019.
Also in rail operations the port handled a record 556 rakes in December 2020. The average monthly terminal handling time of trains improved to 4:42 hours in December from 6:18 hours in September. The average monthly turn-around time of trains (from placement to removal of trains) also reduced to 9:35 hours in December from 13:34 hours in September.
In the calendar year 2020, the total container traffic handled by port is 4.47 million TEUs, with APM Terminals Mumbai (GTI) handling 1.69 million TEUs, DP World NSIGT - 0.77 million TEUs, DP World NSICT - 0.64 million TEUs , JNPCT - 0.56 million TEUs and BMCT handled 0.81 million TEUs. Overall traffic handled in the CY 2020 was 62.32 million tonnes including Liquid and other cargo.
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