PSA International Pte Ltd-owned Bharat Mumbai Container Terminals Pvt Ltd (BMCT), which runs India’s largest container terminal at Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust, has said it will erect three Super Post Panamax Quay Cranes to the nine it already operates. It has handled 5.20 lakh containers in the first full year since it began operations in February 2018.

With the addition of the three mega cranes, BMCT will reach the full Phase 1 capacity of 2.4 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) as the new cranes will be progressively activated to operations after final commissioning, BMCT said in a statement.

“BMCT has handled more than 520,000 TEUs in the last financial year (2018-2019), a significant achievement for a start-up terminal that has just crossed its first year of operations,” it said. “The new cranes are equipped with the latest technology and will allow BMCT to handle multiple large container vessels concurrently alongside our 1,000 metre-long berth. BMCT’s consistently high productivity and berthing flexibility due to our scale offers customers numerous possibilities to hub and grow their service networks at BMCT,” Sivakumar K, General Manager, BMCT said.

BMCT has hired consultants to plan the Phase 2 of the terminal on which construction will start by December this year. The Phase 2 expansion is expected to be operational by end 2022 and will bring the total capacity of BMCT to 4.8 million TEUs with a land area of 200 hectares, BMCT said. PSA International, one of the world’s top container port operators, is owned by Temasek Holdings Pte Ltd, the sovereign wealth fund of Singapore.

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