No congestion at port, says JNPT.

MUMBAI: The Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust authorities have said that there is no congestion at the port (JN Port).

Reacting to the news item 'More carriers to levy congestion charge at JNPT' (ETSL, July 12, 2010), they have informed : "All three terminals of JN Port (JNP Container Terminal , Nhava Sheva International Container Terminal and Gateway Terminals India) are taking all out efforts to ensure speedy connection of boxes to vessels for export and to rail/road as well in case of import containers."

A statement from the port informed that the average dwelling period of import containers bound to CFS at JN Port is well within the period of 1.72 days as against the free period. In case of average dwelling period of ICD containers , especially bound to TKD (New Delhi) at individual terminals is not exceeding more than 6.42 days which is well within the free period. Further to this, the port has adequate number of pilots for serving various tonnage vessels and no delay has been noticed for sailing and berthing of vessels at JNP.

As far as ITRHO is concerned , steps have already been taken by the port terminals to ensure faster movement of import containers and export containers in order to ensure speedy connection to the designated vessels, it pointed out.

As far as dealing with the inbound and outbound containers are concerned, the port is having enough container yard capacity which can accommodate up to 76,000 TEUs altogether at any given point of time. “For the benefit of trade, the port is always taking proactive measures and is having interaction with them at regular intervals with the joint efforts of Concor, private terminals operators, railways etc in order to meet the demand of exim trade,” it said.

Source : Economics Times