JNPT ends the year on a high note, handles 459,920 mn TEUs in December

Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT), handled 459,920 million TEUs in the month of December, 2020, which is the highest container volume handled in a month, ever recorded in the last twenty months. The container traffic increased by 9.90% over the same month of last year and the overall traffic grew by 10.04% to6.37 million tons from the 5.79 million tons handled in December-2019. Sanjay Sethi, IAS, Chairman, JNPT said, “CY 2020 has been a challenging year for all of us but we can look back with a certain degree of satisfaction on what we did to keep JNPT up and running and help maintain the supply of essential goods and trade flows critical for the countr y. am thankful to all our stakeholders and employees for lending a helping hand as the team effort helped us sail through the pandemic and credit is also due to the Ministr y of Ports, Shipping, and Waterways for the swif t actions it took to deal with the fallout of the pandemic on trade and transport.”

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