CARGO VOLUMES AT MAJOR PORTS UP 27 PER CENT IN Q1

Cargo handled at India’s dozen state-owned major ports soared 27.16 per cent
during the April-June quarter to 180.609 million tonnes (mt) from 142.033
mt a year ago. The rebound in cargo volumes during the first quarter of the current fiscal was led by solid growths in containers, iron ore and pellets, thermal and steam coal, as well as coking coal, according to the Pinistry of ports, Shipping and Waterways.
The 12 major ports handled a combined 2.753 million twenty-foot equivalent
units (TEUs), 57.86 per cent more than the 1.744 million TEUs handled
during the first quarter of FY21. Of this, Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT),
India’s busiest state-run container gateway, handled 1.364 million TEUs from
848,000 TEUs during the same period last year.