State-owned Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) has handled 5 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) this fiscal, becoming the first Indian port to scale the peak.
The milestone comes three decades after JNPT was built as a satellite port to de-congest Mumbai Port Trust with an investment of ₹1,109 crore, of which ₹956.97 crore was loaned by funding agencies, with the World Bank being one of the major contributors.
JNPT has five container terminals, of which four are run by private entities and one is run by the port trust itself.
In FY18, JNPT handled 4.83 million TEUs. Till March 26, 2019, it handled 5.03 million TEUs.
Of the 5 million TEUs handled this year, Gateway Terminals India Pvt Ltd, the facility run by a joint venture between APM Terminals Management BV and Concor, emerged the top terminal yet again by handling 2.01 million TEUs. The container terminal run by the government-owned port authority handled 1.04 million TEUs.
Nhava Sheva International Container Terminal, Dubai government-owned DP World’s first facility at JNPT and operating since 2000, handled 5.47 lakh TEUs. Nhava Sheva (India) Gateway Terminal, also run by DP World, handled 9.26 lakh TEUs.
Bharat Mumbai Container Terminals, run by Singapore’s PSA International Pte Ltd, handled 5.03 lakh TEUs.