Tuticorin Port has crossed 10 million tonnes during fiscal Apri 1 to Sep 13 2008, by surpassing the corresponding previous year handling of 89.59 lakh tonnes,registering a growth of 12.08 per cent.
The port is confident of crossing the target of 240.60 lakh tonnes set by the Ministry for Tuticorin Port for the year 2008-09, a port release said.
This performance was possible due to increase in anchorage operation for handling industrial coal and increased traffic due to cargoes like Copper concentrate, fertiliser and fertiliser raw material, containerized cargo and other commodities,the release said.
