Chennai Port

Empty box outflows constrain Indian inventory capacity amid strong demand

While government and industry leaders in India continually call for greater equipment availability to keep pace with rising exports, an analysis of port data reveals one exceptional fact: a sequential rise in the export of empty containers through the country’s larger ports.

For example, Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (Nhava Sheva) saw empty exports reach 127,000 TEU between November and January, from about 104,000 TEU of empty boxes sent out in the prior three months. In contrast, empty imports...

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Chennai Port Welcomes Largest Container Ship

  • The Chennai Port welcomed the largest container vessel MV CMA CGM Rhone to visit India’s south and eastern coast.
  • The 299.95-m-long vessel has a capacity of 9365 TEUs. The vessel arrived from Singapore with 2434 TEUs imports and loaded 1345 TEUs exports.
  • The container vessel was berthed at the Chennai Container Terminal, operated by DP World.
  • The NEMO service is the only direct service to Europe from the South and East coast ports of India.

According to an article published in Indian Transport...

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Cleanliness campaign launched at Chennai port

Chennai Port launched ‘Swachhata Hi Seva’ (Cleanliness is service) campaign on Wednesday. Apart from cleaning activities, the campaign will focus on reducing the use of plastic and completely do away with single-use plastic. P. Raveendran, chairman of Chennai Port, inaugurated the campaign by administering the ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’ pledge to more than 300 officers and staff of the port.

Read more on The Hindu.

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Chennai Port to handle Kia Motors exports

Chennai Port Trust (ChPT) has scored over three ports in the south to bag a contract from Kia Motors to handle the exports of the South Korean carmaker.

“It is a tremendous win for us as we had to compete with well-known ports in the south,” said P. Raveendran, chairman, ChPT.

“This win has given us the confidence to develop car exports from ChPT in a big way,” he said.

Ever since Kia Motors announced its readiness to roll out cars from its Anantapur plant in Andhra Pradesh, Kamarajar Port, L&T...

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Chennai port sets new record in box handling

The Chennai port has surpassed its own record in container handling. The East Coast’s gateway port handled 15.70 lakh TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units) as on March 21 — 10 days ahead of the fiscal closure .

The previous record of 15.65 lakh TEUs was achieved in 2015-16.

The Chennai port has two private container terminals — Chennai International Terminals Pvt Ltd, a subsidiary of PSA International, Singapore, and Chennai Container Terminal Pvt Ltd of DP World, Dubai.

The port handles around 1.5...

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Kamarajar Port to become a subsidiary of Chennai Port Trust

Kamarajar Port was originally designed as a satellite port to Chennai Port Trust to handle dusty cargo such as coal and iron ore and free Chennai, just 20 kms away, from such cargoes polluting the city. However, it later diversified to cater to clean cargo including containers, pitting itself in direct competition with Chennai Port Trust, creating over capacity in and around Chennai.

Being a corporate port, Kamarajar is free to set rates based on market forces while the rates at the 11 major...

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