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IT disruption affected our terminal ops but
no loss in revenue: JNPA
NPA (Jawaharlal Nehru Port Authority)
Jchairman Sanjay Sethi confirmed that
some of the vessels berthed at JNPCT had
to be shifted and the terminal operations
were affected in terms of loading, offloading
and moving containers to yards due to the
IT disruption (suspected cyber attack) that
happened on Feb 20, 2022.
However, the chairman noted that the
incident didn't cost JNPA any revenue loss and
that all operations are now back to normal in all
respects. "If I had to get a consultant and give
him one lakh rupees well that's no loss. When
you do the math we still get the revenue part
of the royalty. The difficulty was for one week
as we had to do some manual handling, some
containers dealy," he said.
He was talking to the media in Mumbai
about how JNPA is aligning its projects towards
the PM Gati Shakti initiative, the national
master plan for multimodal connectivity.
APM Terminals Mumbai to invest
China lockdowns to $115 mn to increase container
hurt supply chains handling capacity
he announcement of nationwide
Tlockdowns in China is pushing
supply chains to prepare for another
round of turmoil in the coming
months, impacting the flow of
container movement as importers
worldwide prepare for the coming
peak season later this year.
Two weeks since the start of the
Russia-Ukraine conflict, "there seems
to be negligible impact on container
prices and leasing rates in China,"
according to the latest update from
Container xChange.
"Container availability has improved PM Terminals Mumbai, also needs for larger vessel capability,"
soon after the Chinese New Year until Aknown as Gateway Terminals according to an official statement.
Friday across key ports in China. At India (GTI), will invest $115 million GTI is a joint venture between APM
the port of Ningbo, the average price in infrastructure development to Terminals and domestic rail operator
for a 40-feet high cube container increase the container handling Container Corporation of India
dropped from $5,930 on February 14 to capacity by 10 percent to 2.18 (Concor) operating at Nhava Sheva.
$5,248 on March 10. Similarly, average million TEUs. "The company is The terminal includes a berth line of
prices fell 10-15 percent at Shanghai, investing in Ship-to-Shore (StS) 2,336 feet, 128 acres of yard space,
Qingdao and Shenzhen. Shenzhen has cranes and Rail Mounted Gantry and modern service equipment
witnessed a drop of 8 percent in the (RMG) cranes. The investment including 10 twin-lifting quay cranes,
past two weeks." is aimed at enabling GTI to 40 rubber-tire gantry cranes, and
accommodate changing customer three rail-mounted quay cranes.
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