Traffic increases at major Indian ports by 4.58%

Major Indian ports registered a growth of 4.58% for the period between April 2017-January 2018 as compared to 3.64% growth registered between April-December 2017.

The 12 major ports put together handled 560.97 Million Tonnes (MT) of cargo during these ten months of FY2018 as against 536.41 MT handled during the corresponding period of last year.

The eight ports of Kolkata (including Haldia), Paradip, Visakhapatnam, Chennai, Cochin, New Mangalore, Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust and Deendayal Port (former Kandla Port) have registered positive growth in traffic, as per statistics the shared by Ministry of Shipping.

Once again, the highest cargo traffic growth was registered by Cochin Port at 18.36%, followed by Paradip at 16.01%, Kolkata (including Haldia) at 13.47%, New Mangalore at 7.37% and JNPT at 5.95%. Mumbai Port, which earlier used to witness traffic growth registered a dip.

Commodity-wise percentage share of Petroleum, Oil and Lubricants was highest with 33.74%, followed by container at 19.70% share.

Whereas, thermal and steam coal had 13.72% share of cargo share. The balance cargo comprised of other miscellaneous cargo, coking and other coal (7.60%), iron ore and pellets (6.72%), other liquid (4.15%), finished fertilizer (1.17%), etc.