Major ports mark 3.91% growth during April-June 2018

July 12, 2018: The major ports in India have recorded a growth of 3.91 percent and together handled 174.02 million tonnes of cargo during the period April to June, 2018 as against 167.48 million tonnes handled during the corresponding period of previous year.

For the period from April- June 2018, nine ports - Kolkata including Haldia, Paradip, Visakhapatnam, Kamarajar, Chennai, Cochin, New Mangalore, JNPT and Deendayal (Kandla) Port have registered positive growth in traffic.

The highest growth was registered by Kamarajar Port (11.93 percent), followed by Kolkata including Haldia (10.21 percent), Paradip (9 percent), Cochin 7.85 percent) and Visakhapatnam (7.24 percent)

Kamarajar Port growth was mainly due to increase in Other Liquids by 29.63 percent, Other Miscellaneous Cargo by 15.06 percent, POL by 7.51 percent and Thermal & Steam Coal by 4.93 percent. In Kolkata Port, overall growth was 10.21 percent. Kolkata Dock System (KDS) registered traffic growth of 2.82 percent. Whereas Haldia Dock Complex (HDC) registered impressive growth of 13.49 percent which is highest among all the major ports.

During the period April to June 2018, Deendayal (Kandla) Port handled the highest volume of traffic i.e. 29.13 million tonnes (16.74 percent share), followed by Paradip with 26.64 million tonnes (15.31 percent share), JNPT with 17.37 million tonnes (9.98 percent share), Visakhapatnam with 16.20 million tonnes (9.31 percent share) and Kolkata including Haldia with 15.13 million tonnes (8.69 percent). Together, these five ports handled around 60 percent of major port traffic.

Commodity-wise percentage share of POL was maximum i.e. 30.36 percent, followed by Container (20.36 percent), Thermal & Steam Coal (16.26 percent), Other Miscellaneous Cargo (12.41 percent), Coking & Other Coal (7.49 percent), Iron Ore & Pellets (6.47 percent), Other Liquid (4.06 percent), Finished Fertilizer (1.42 percent) and FRM (0.9 percent).