Jawaharlal Nehru Port Container Terminal (JNPCT), one of the four terminals at JN Port, which is directly managed by the Port authority, handled 14,29,936 TEUs till March 7, 2017, surpassing last fiscal's record of 14,29,277 TEUs and registering 7.6 per cent YoY growth in cargo throughput.

In a major attempt to rise above conventional standards and achieve high benchmarks, the Port-owned container terminal has taken a series of measures to improve the productivity parameters, leading to this record achievement. For the month of February 2017, the berth productivity was 73.37 moves/hour, recording 13 per cent growth over the previous year's average of 64.98 moves/hour. Deployment of adequate number of cranes according to parcel/window size and the initiative of ˜Identifying Champions' proved very effective in motivating individuals and the team in achieving the overall terminal target. As a result, there has been a drastic reduction in shift change time, thus helping increase the crane productivity from the regular 16 moves/hour to 20 moves/hour. Efforts are on to further improve this to 22 moves/hour for faster handling of containers.

The JNPT management congratulated the entire team of JNPCT for this record performance and thanked all the stakeholders for their continued support in achieving the feat, said a release.