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Container handling charges hike gets flak

Container handling charges hike gets flak

Various industry chambers and exporter associations have urged Dubai Port World, which is managing the Vallarpadam International Tran shipment Container terminal in Kerala, not to go ahead with the proposed increase in handling charges from January 1, saying such a move would hit port users in the State.

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Mangalore port box handling crosses 10k TEUs

Mangalore port box handling crosses 10k TEUs

The container handling at New Mangalore Port Trust (NMPT) crossed 10,000 TEUs mark in the first 75 days of the current financial year as against 8,917 TEUs in the corresponding period of the previous fiscal, recording a growth of 13 per cent.

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The aim is to both have and avoid transhipment

The aim is to both have and avoid transhipment

As container handling operations begin at the Vallarpadam terminal around noon on 18 February, G Krishnakumar, Deputy Chairman, Cochin Port Trust, pauses his interview with Shashidhar Nanjundaiah, and looks out the expansive windows of his office—overlooking the CPT-owned terminal—for the understated but historic moment.