Exim News Service reported that Jawaharlal Nehru Port has emerged as the number one in terms of traffic growth and third in total throughput handled during the first quarter of 2008-09 among Major Ports by handling 14.98 million tonnes of total cargo during April to June 2008 period and registering a growth of 18.83% YoY over the same period of 2007-08. It had registered a throughput of 12.60 million tonnes in the first quarter of 2007-08.

Container traffic handled during April to June 2008 quarter was 1,056,556 TEUs, of which JNPCT contributed 314,659 TEUs, NSICT 371,744 TEUs and GTI 370,153 TEUs. Container traffic handled during the same period of 2007-08 was 941,829 TEUs. Thus, the growth in box traffic in Q1 of this fiscal has been 12.18% YoY. Of the total 257,576 TEUs of ICD traffic handled during the period under review, JNPCT had 67,569 TEUs, NSICT 103,144 TEUs and GTI 86,863 TEUs.

JNP handled 1 million tonnes of liquid cargo, 179,000 tonnes of dry bulk cargo and 2000 tonnes of break bulk cargo during the first quarter of 2008-09.

In June 2008, JNP handled 457,760 tonnes of liquid cargo at the BPCL Jetty, which is an all time monthly record since the commencement of operations at the jetty. The earlier liquid cargo handling record was 445,662 tonnes in April 2005. It is expected to maintain a growth rate of over 20% during the current fiscal.