Nov 09, 2016: Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) has achieved a growth of 34.44 percent in October 2016 over the same period last year and a growth of 7.40 percent over September 2016, in the number of containers delivered under Direct Port Delivery (DPD) format. The Government is promoting the DPD from container terminals as a major step towards reducing cost of transaction at ports. JNPT has eased up the norms and procedure for EXIM trade covered under ACP (Accredited Client Programmer) to clear more containers under DPD. The total numbers of ACP clients who have registered for DPD with the JNPT have increased to 52 in October 2016 against 11 ACP clients in the February this year, mainly due to the removal of minimum volume ceiling to be qualified for availing DPD.
JNPT’s another initiative of Inter-Terminal Transfer (ITT) of Tractor Trailers (TT) has also helped in reducing the traffic on Port roads upto 10 percent and optimal utilisation of transport resources. Under ITT facility, total 13,365 trucks completed 17,260 transactions in October 2016, while April-October period showed a total of 1.21 lakh trucks with 1.44 lakh transactions.
In the month of October 2016, JN Port handled total volume of 3.68 lakh TEUs. JNPCT (Jawaharlal Nehru Port Container Terminal), port-owned container terminal, handled 1.29 lakh TEUs showing a cumulative growth of 10.58 percent.