The Cochin Port Trust has set a productivity record in cargo handling by unloading the highest quantity of industrial salt from the ship M.V.J.S. Belmar on July 8.

Port workers discharged 13,477 tonnes of industrial salt in bulk from the ship, the highest ever quantity of industrial salt handled on a single day at the port.

This surpasses all the previous records so far achieved said. The ship was carrying a total of 36,000 tonnes of salt for Travancore Cochin Chemicals (TCC), berthed at Q8 of Ernakulam Wharf on July 7 and sailed out on July 11 with a record in ship berth day output.

Aspinwall and Company was the steamer agent and stevedore of the vessel. The port is focusing to develop the Ernakulam Wharf as a major bulk cargo consolidation centre of South India, the release added.