WASHINGTON: Kandla Port for the first time in its history achieved 100 MMT (Million Metric Tonnes) cargo throughput in 2015-16 after it registered a 8.17 percent increase in cargo volumes during the just ended fiscal compared to 2014-15. Kandla is the second port in the country to touch this mark after Adani Group’s Mundra port in 2012-13.
In the year 2014-15, KPT had clocked 92.5 MMT in cargo volumes. “This throughput at Kandla Port was accomplished despite Essar Refinery shutting down on account of maintenance, rain and bad weather affecting routine port operations, maintenance at cargo berth number six, idling of container terminal at the port and the continued industrial slowdown in the country,” stated a release from Kandla Port Trust.
