Barring New Mangalore Port Trust and Haldia Dock Complex, all the major seaports in the country registered a positive growth in traffic volume from April to October 2014.
The country as a whole recorded a 24 per cent dip in iron ore volume and 2.77 per cent in coking coal. There was no change in petroleum, oil and lubricant traffic at 109.85 million tonnes (MT). Major gainers were raw fertilizers and other cargoes.
Compared with the previous year’s volume, 12 major ports handled 336.04 MT of cargoes against 321.13 MT in the previous year, marking an increase of 4.64 per cent. Mormugao Port led the pack with 20.46 per cent growth, followed by Kamarajar Port (16.08 per cent). The remaining ports posted growth in single-digit.
Kandla Port handled 54.70 MT of cargo, followed by Paradip (41.40 MT), JNPT (37.52 MT), Mumbai (35.28 MT) and Visakhapatnam (34.27 MT).
New Mangalore and Haldia Dock volumes came down due to a dip in POL and iron ore. Chennai Port handled huge volume of iron ore, fertilizers, break bulk and containers. But it fell short of last year’s volume in POL, thus leading to a marginal growth of 2.84 per cent over the corresponding period last year.
