October 11, 2008

Kandla Port crosses 50 million tonnes mark

Exim News Service reported that Kandla Port, in its steady march towards becoming a facility par excellence in the international maritime sector, has crossed the milestone of handling 50 million tonnes of cargo in 2007-08, well ahead of the close of the financial year. Its target for the current fiscal is 60 million tonnes. Hence, it is just 10 million tonnes away from this target, with about 73 days to go.

Mr Sanjay Bhaty public relation officer & head of the port’s business development cell said that it touched the magic figure on January 18th 2008, which was an impressive 9.6 million tonnes more than the 40.8 million tonnes it handled by the same day in 2006-07.

He said that “Till date, the overall growth rate of Kandla Port in this fiscal has been 23.60% as against the national growth rate of 11%. Its productivity has also increased by 33% during 2007 fiscal till January 18.

In 2006-07, the Kandla Port had attained the 50 million tonne mark only by the middle of March 2007, with the final throughput for the fiscal being 52.98 million tonnes. It has now achieved this magical figure more than 2 months before the fiscal end.