JNPT looks toward optimisation

June 16, 2016: Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust is intensely focusing on productivity improvements as India’s largest public container handler experiences a healthy pickup in cargo movements after sluggish growth last fiscal year. The top port expanded its “inter-terminal truck transfer” procedure designed to speed drayage by connecting APM Terminals-operated Gateway Terminals India to DP World’s Nhava Sheva International Container Terminal, and vice versa.

“As part of the port’s continuous endeavor to create more value for the trade and ensure better service coupled with reduction in congestion on the approach roads leading to the terminal gates, the final leg of the procedure under ITT has now been implemented,” JNPT said in a trade announcement.

The inter-terminal procedure allows truckers to drop off laden export containers at one terminal and pick up import units from a neighboring facility with a single gate transaction. The system was initially set up between port-owned Jawaharlal Nehru Container Terminal and GTI, and buoyed by a positive impact on gate movements, authorities introduced the program between JNCT and NSICT toward the end of March 2015.