Container vessels to India will lose time window due to Suez traffic

Some bunching at Chennai and JNPT, bulk and liquid vessels to be less impacted

With the Ever Given container vessel having gotten freed a couple of days ago, it is the container vessels coming to India that will have lost their time window leading to some bunching taking place at ports such as Chennai and Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT), industry officials said today.

* Chennai Port expecting 7-day delay

* Chennai Port has spare capacity to handle vessel bunching

* Bulk, liquid vessel schedules to remain unaffected

* Container vessels to lose time window

* Around 400 vessels to be shipped across globe remain stuck at Suez

“Bulk and liquid vessels follow the queuing system and