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Cargo volume at Jawaharlal Nehru Port fell by 3.32 per cent in the last fiscal, mainly due to labour troubles and cut in output by one of the private terminals, JNPT said on Friday.
The country’s largest container port which handled 62.35 million tonnes of cargo during fiscal 2013-14 as compared to 64.49 tonnes in the previous year, said while the government-owned terminal registered a growth of 8.66 per cent in volume, its two private terminals reported lower volumes.
Throughput of two private terminals — NSICT run by DP World Dubai and GTI operated APM Terminals — fell by 7.15 per cent (0. 97 million TEUs) and 6.35 per cent (1.88 million TEUs) respectively, a port official said.
Strike callWhile both the terminals were hit by strike and go-slow action by employees, NSICT fearing revenue loss, reduced the volume after the tariff regulator cut its rate in 2012.
The JNPT’s own terminal handled 1.31 million TEUs as against 1.21 million TEUs in the previous year. Of the total, containerised cargo was 55.24 million tonnes (88.59 per cent), liquid cargo 6.29 million tonnes (10.10 per cent) and dry-bulk and break-bulk 0.82 million tonnes (1.31 per cent).
The total container volume (including private terminals) fell by over two per cent to 4.16 million TEUs from 4.26 million TEUs. The port’s volumes represent 55.74 per cent of the total containerised cargo (7.47 million) handled by all Major Ports in 2013-14.
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