The Hindu Business Line : Ports traffic up by 7.2% in first half

Chennai, Oct. 17 Traffic through Indian ports increased by 7.20 per cent in the first half of the current fiscal ended September 30, 2008, according to data released by the Indian Ports Association.

However, the ports missed the cargo handling target fixed by the Shipping Ministry by 7.32 per cent.

Cargo handling

The country’s 12 major ports handled 262 million tonnes (mt) of cargo between April and September 2008 compared with 244 mt in the corresponding period last year. Only three ports – Visakhapatnam, Ennore and Kandla – surpassed the cargo handling target fixed by the ministry for the first half.

Topping the list in cargo handling was Kandla port with 38 mt, a 23 per cent growth over the corresponding period last year. Visakhapatnam was second with 33 mt, an eight per cent growth, and Jawaharlal Nehru port was third with 30 mt, a 17 per cent increase.

Container handling at Jawaharlal Nehru port in the first half was 2.13 million TEUs (twenty foot equivalent units) compared with 1.94 million TEUs in the first half of last year – a 10 per cent growth. Chennai, the country’s second-largest container port, had a 14 per cent growth to 6.29 lakh TEUs (5.52 lakh TEUs).

Iron ore handling increased by 1.54 per cent to 40 mt (39.48 mt), according to IPA data.

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