Paradeep Port cargo up 5% in Apr-Dec

port's cargo traffic in the period rose from 52.39 to 55.13 mt

Paradeep Port Trust (PPT) has recorded 5.23 per cent growth in its total cargo in April-December period of 2015-16.

The port's cargo traffic in the period rose from 52.39 million tonne (mt) to 55.13 mt. The port handled 1156 ships compared to 1064 ships in the year-ago period. 

PPT has taken a slew of measures which has ensured improvement in productivity of ship days from 17,289 tonne in 2014-15 to 19,856 tonne in the period under review.

The port recently declared its facility of CQ-1/CQ -2 and South Quay for handling Baby Cape ships up to 260 metres length, beam with 43 metres and draft of 14.5 metres. The port infrastructure like road and railway and drainage system is accordingly being realigned to augment the cargo handling capacity matched with the discharge /load rate of baby Capesize ships.

The Port is witnessing lot of queries from the various section of trade for regular calling of baby Cape size ships shortly, said a PPT release.