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Santanu Sanyal

Kolkata, Sept 1 Two new quay cranes, to be supplied by ZPMC of China, will start functioning at Gateway Terminals India’s (GTI) existing berth at the Jawaharlal Nehru port from April next year.

With this, the number of cranes at GTI terminal will rise to 10.

The installation of the new cranes will push up GTI’s handling capacity by an additional five lakh TEUs annually, according to Mr Prakash Tulsiani, COO of GTI.

The cranes, estimated to cost $6.9 million, would arrive some time in December, Mr Tulsiani said.

Meanwhile, GTI has surpassed the throughput of one million TEUs recently for this year.

“We’ve achieved the milestone on August 28, i.e., precisely within 241 days,” said Mr Tulsiani, attributing it to efficient operation.

The throughput in the whole of 2008, he estimated, would be around 1.45 million TEUs against the capacity of 1.3 million TEUs.

“We would have achieved an even higher throughput this year but for the arrival of the new cranes and the preliminary work related to their installation”, he said.

In 2007, GTI achieved a throughout of 1.179 million TEUs.

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