State-owned Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) has handled 5 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) this fiscal, becoming the first Indian port to scale the peak.
The milestone comes three decades after JNPT was built as a satellite port to de-congest Mumbai Port Trust with an investment of ₹1,109 crore, of which ₹956.97 crore was loaned by funding agencies, with the World Bank being one of the major contributors.
JNPT has five container terminals, of which four are run by private entities...