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Last December PSA India’s network of container terminals handled a new monthly record throughput of 257,347 TEU, reflecting the strong recovery in the Indian economy. Moreover, 2021 has got off to a positive start with the arrival of Wan Hai 507 at PSA Mumbai on 3rd January 2021 as part of the new joint Wan Hai Lines / Interasia Lines CI2 / ICI service. This is the terminal’s seventh weekly service call and its fifth direct connection to the Far East.
The service will be maintained by six vessels with a capacity of 4,250 TEU, four of which will be deployed by Wan Hai and two by IAL. Sivakumar Kaliannan, Managing Director of PSA Mumbai, said, “We are immensely grateful to Wan Hai Lines and Interasia Lines for entrusting a second service to us with the arrival of the CI2/ICI, soon after the launch of their CI6 service in December. December was an extra special month for us, as PSA Mumbai reached its highest ever monthly throughput of 94,728 TEU.”
PSA Chennai joined PSA Mumbai in setting its own record monthly high of 93,514 TEU, while other facilities in Kolkata and Tuticorin also performed well. PSA India Managing Director, Mike Formosa, added, “All our terminals operated uninterrupted throughout 2020, handling every scheduled vessel call and many more unscheduled ones, thanks to the unstinting efforts of our staff, contractors and stakeholders working steadfastly and safely alongside each other. With this new service call from Wan Hai and Interasia Lines, 2021 is off to a strong start and we will also soon see new products and developments for PSA India, including enhancements of the ODEX digital online payment solution launched in September 2020.”
PSA Mumbai is located in Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT), which handled a total of 459,920 TEU in the month of December 2020, 9.9% up on the same month of 2019 and its highest monthly figure in 20 months. The total volume of container traffic handled by the gateway port in 2020 was 4.47 million TEU, of which PSA Mumbai amounted for around 810,000 TEU. The busiest terminal was APM Terminals Mumbai (GTI), handling 1.69 million TEU, while DP World’s two terminals handled around 1.41 million TEU between them. The port authority controlled JN Port Container Terminal recorded a throughput of around 560,000 TEU.
Shri Sanjay Sethi, Chairman, JNPT said, “The calendar year 2020 has been challenging 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 country.”
