The Hindu Business Line : Haldia Dock handles record monthly traffic in January

HALDIA dock's traffic throughput in January at 3.257 million tonnes (mt) was an all-time high monthly figure, surpassing the previous record of 3.226 mt in August 2004, according to Kolkata Port Trust sources.

Cumulatively, between April 2004 and January 2005, the dock handled a total of 29.699 mt, registering a growth of 10.2 per cent over 26.949 mt handled in the same period of the previous year.

The dock's iron ore throughput of 7.177 lakh tonnes in January this year was also the highest ever, surpassing the previous best of 5.79 lakh tonnes handled in October 2004. In terms of number of vessels handled, 203, January 2005 stood out, surpassing the previous highest of 192 handled in January 2004.

The Kolkata Dock System posted a growth in container throughput. Between April 2004 and January 2005, the container throughput was 1,30,109 TEUs, representing 27.27 per cent growth over the same period last year. In first 10 months of the current fiscal, the container throughput of KDS thus surpassed that (1,22,419 TEUs) handled in the whole of 2003-04.

Between April 2004 and January 2005, Kolkata port (including Haldia dock) handled a total of 37.4 mt, comprising 29.7 mt by Haldia and 7.7 mt by KDS. At this rate, the port might end the current fiscal with an estimated throughput of 46 mt against 41.26 mt in 2003-04. "If that really happens, Kolkata port will be the second highest cargo handling port after Visakhapatnam port," observe KoPT sources.

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