Tuticorin Port creates new record in coal handling

V O Chidambaranar Port Trust here today said it has created a new record by handling 48,701 tonnes of thermal coal in a single day on March 20.

Earlier, the port had handled 42,508 tonnes in a single day on January 14 last, a release said.

Neyveli Thermal Power Plant, too, handled 3.28 million tonnes of coal during 2016-17 and 3.11 million tonnes during this financial year upto February.

Chairman of the port trust I Jeyakumar, who thanked the staff and the stakeholders for the feat, said the port was continuously striving to achieve improvement in performance and productivity in order to attract more volume of traffic.