Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust

JNPA records nearly 12% rise in Oct container traffic to 614,651 TEUs

Jawaharlal Nehru Port Authority (JNPA) on Tuesday said container traffic at its port rose 11.86 per cent year-on-year to 6,14,651 TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units) in October. The port had handled a total of 5,49,487 TEUs of containers in October last year, it added. In the previous month, it handled 7.62 million tonnes of total cargo, 2.26 per cent more compared to the total cargo handled in October 2023. In October 2024, the port said, it handled 562 container rakes and 88,224 TEUs compared to 555 rakes and 88,412 TEUs in the year-ago period. In the seven months to October, the total container traffic grew 13.12 per cent year-on-year to 4,142,134 TEUs of containers, while the total cargo during this period stood at 52.42 million tonnes, recording a 5.6 per cent year-on-year growth, it said.

REC inks pact with JNPA for financing projects up to Rs 45,000 crore

REC will provide funds for JNPA's infrastructure projects, including the Vadhavan port development plan

JN Port to scale up handling capacity to over 10 mn TEUs by April

Union Minister for Ports, Shipping, and Waterways Sarbananda Sonowal on Thursday said that the container handling facility at Jawaharlal Nehru Port is being scaled up to 10 million TEUs. Speaking with reporters after reviewing various infrastructure and development projects at the port, the minister also said that the upcoming Vadhvan Port in the Palghar district of Maharashtra would generate 10 lakh jobs in the region. To be built as an all-weather port, the greenfield deep draft mega port will come up at an investment of Rs 76,200 crore. The minister said JNPA soon will have a container handling capacity of around 10 million TEUs. A senior JNPA official said that the container handling capacity currently stands at 7.4 million TEUs, which will go up to 10.4 million TEUs by April next year. Sonowal said that Jawaharlal Nehru Port has become the first 100 per cent landlord port in the country, adding that, "accordingly we are aiming for bigger and bigger ships at this facility."

Cargo traffic across 12 major Indian ports surges 6.8 % to 69.8 MT in June

Cargo traffic across 12 major Indian ports rose 6.8 per cent to 69.08 million tonnes (MT) in June from 64.69 MT in the year-ago month, with ten ports showing positive growth while the remaining two witnessed a decline. Jawaharlal Nehru Port in Maharashtra recorded the highest growth in cargo handling at 15.12 per cent during the reporting month, followed by Cochin Port with 15.12 per cent, Kamarajar Port (10.70 per cent), Deendayal Port (8.57 per cent) and New Mangalore Port (8.53 per cent), according to the data released by the major ports' apex body Indian Ports Association (IPA). The 12 major ports are Deendayal (Kandla), Mumbai, Mormugao, New Mangalore, Cochin, Chennai, Ennore (Kamarajar), Tuticorin (V O Chidambaranar), Visakhapatnam, Paradip and Kolkata (including Haldia) and Jawaharlal Nehru Port. According to the IPA, VO Chidambaranar Port's cargo traffic grew 7.73 per cent and Paradip Port 7.41 per cent growth, respectively, during the previous month. SMP Kolkata Port ...

Cabinet nod for Rs 76K-crore Vadhavan Port soon: Sarbananda Sonowal

The estimate of Rs 76,220 crore is Rs 11,000 crore more than the previously approved amount by the cabinet. The project had been stuck in environmental regulations for the past two years

Atal Setu: Mumbai gets India's longest sea bridge, operations begin today

PM inaugurates the Mumbai Trans Harbour Link project

Welspun One to invest Rs 700 crore in infra at Jawaharlal Nehru Port's SEZ

Welspun One said on Wednesday said it will develop an industrial and logistics hub at the Jawaharlal Nehru Port's Special Economic Zone with an investment of around Rs 700 crore. This investment is the second deployment from Welspun Ones' latest Fund 2, which is a Rs 2,000-crore Alternative Investment Fund, the company said in a statement. The development of a 1.2-million square feet industrial and logistics hub spread across 55 acres at JNPA SEZ signifies a paradigm shift in India's infrastructure sector, Welspun One said. The total investment of Rs 700 crore includes land as well as construction cost and the project will be financed through a mix of debt and equity, it said. According to the statement, this strategic collaboration is the beginning of a partnership between JNPA (developer) and Welspun One (as co-developer), leveraging synergies to build future-ready industrial and warehousing infrastructure. "We have partnered with Jawaharlal Nehru Port Authority (JNPA) as ...

Govt plans to develop Nehru Port as smart port within a year: Sonowal

The government plans to develop the country's premier container port Jawaharlal Nehru Port as a fully smart port within one year, Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal said on Thursday. Speaking at the 34th anniversary of the JNPA, the Minister for Ports, Shipping and Waterways said the government wants the facility to compete with the best ports in the world. "The government will develop JNPA into a fully smart port within one year. We want it to be a fully electronically connected system for better services," the minister said. He also said that Jawaharlal Nehru Port Authority (JNPA) has seen 29 industrial units coming up in its SEZ under the Sagarmala Project. The SEZ project at JNPA is part of the port-led industrialisation plan, developed on 277.38 hectares of freehold land by the JN Port, incorporating the land use plan of the port. An initiative under the Sagarmala national flagship policy of the shipping ministry, the SEZ is aimed at boosting exports, generating employment, ..

Jawaharlal Nehru Port Authority logs record growth in container traffic

Jawaharlal Nehru Port Authority (JNPA) on Monday said it has logged a record growth in container traffic at 6.05 million TEUs (Twenty-foot equivalent units) in FY23, a growth of 6.4 per cent over the year earlier. Total container traffic at the port in the fiscal year that ended March 31, 2022, was recorded at 5.68 million TEUs. The total traffic handled at the port during the just-concluded fiscal year stood at 83.86 MMT, which is 10.35 per cent higher than 76 MMT traffic handled for the same period of last year. "This proves our commitment towards making the Port a perfect getaway for EXIM trade. It is a token of port's consistent efforts and commitment to providing best services to our clients," said Sanjay Sethi, Chairman, JNPA. The port during the year also handled 6,504 container rakes and 1,022,951 TEUs as compared to 6,278 rakes and 1,008,079 TEUs during corresponding period of FY22, JNPA said. Sethi said that the container traffic at the port is expected to log 6.5 per ce

Tata Projects consortium served termination notice over 'intolerable' delay

Move over 'inordinate delay' in executing crucial stretch of Western DFC

BEL, UK-based Smith Detection to build high-tech scanners within 3 years

Under the deal, BEL will handle front-end requirements in the market and support localisation of projects, while Smiths Detection will provide screening tech

SC provides relief to Adani Ports in connection with bidding process

Sector experts feel the court has cleared the air on an issue which saw multiple stands from high courts across the country

Govt assures bank support for smooth business through Chabahar port

Despite the port being exempted from Iranian sanctions for the development of Afghanistan and India's investment in the port, banks have been risk-averse

India, Uzbekistan agree pilot trade shipment through Chabahar Port

The shipment is expected to be executed in the next 15-20 days, an official in the know of the matter said

Links between infra & growth

It's hard to argue that infrastructure is now the binding constraint

Adani Ports moves SC as HC rejects plea against JNPA for disqualifying bid

The contract was for upgrading a container terminal in Navi Mumbai; Adani counsel urges top court to restrain JNPA from proceeding with other bids

JNPA to operate Jalna dry port as multi-modal logistics park: Report

It already has a similar arrangement with NHAI for its Wardha dry port, its Chairman Sanjay Sethi said at a media briefing

JNPT's cargo volumes reach pre-Covid levels in April-July period

Compared to 2020-21, when cargo volumes were at 11,92,165 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs), during April-July, the rise was around 50.8 per cent

Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust signs Rs 100 crore pact with CNB Logitech

Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) has signed a memorandum of understanding with CNB Logitech of Rs 100 crore per annum to monitor, track and optimise the movement of 50 lakh containers in EXIM trade

A move towards the landlord port?

Of the five container terminals in the JNP, the port itself runs only one. Of the others, one is run by APM Terminals, another by the Singapore Port Authority and two by DP World