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The Indian Ports Association (IPA) recently announced that 12 state-run ports in the nation handled a total of 8.446 million TEUs of containers in fiscal 2016 (April 2016-March 2017), which increased 3% year on year. Overall container throughput grew on a tonnage scale as well, rising 1.1% to 124.449 million tons.
Looking at the total number more closely by port, container lifting remained nearly unchanged at Jawaharlal Nehru Port (JNPT), the busiest container ports in India, which rose a minute 0.2% to 4.5 million TEU. Kolkata enjoyed a double-digit improvement, at which container throughput surged 18.4% to 772,000 TEUs. Containers to and from Visakhapatnam Port were even more brisk, jumping 25.3% to 367,000 TEUs. As for other ports, volumes soared 17.2% to 491,000 TEUs at Cochin, 25% to 95,000 TEUs at New Mangalore Port and 15.4% to 30,000 TEUs at Mormugao. Kandla performed extremely well, processing 10,000 TEUs, which skyrocketed 233.3%.
On the other hand, containers to and from Chennai, the second largest container ports in the Asian economy, went down 4.5% to 1.495 million TEUs; Chidambaranar, down 4.9% to 642,000 TEUs and Mumbai, down 2.3% to 42,000 TEUs. Containers plunged notably at Paradip, which nosedived 60% to 2,000 TEUs.
