Kamarajar Port

The Chennai Port Trust and its subsidiary Kamarajar Port Ltd have set a target of crossing 100 million metric tonne of cargo in the current financial year, a top official said here on Monday. Both the ports handled 92.46 million metric tonne of cargo in the last financial year, Chairman and Managing Director Sunil Paliwal said. On the performance of the Ports, he said Chennai Port Trust handled 48.95 million metric tonne of cargo, which was up by 0.8 per cent from 48.56 million metric tonne handled last year. Kamarajar Port handled 43.51 million metric tonne of cargo in 2022-23 up by 12.31 per cent from 38.74 million metric tonne recorded the previous year. "Container is the major cargo handled by Chennai Port Trust. It is about 58 per cent. While liquid bulk and dry bulk cargo also witnessed a good growth this year," he told reporters. To a query, the Chairman said exports of automobiles grew last year at Chennai Port Trust following the signing of agreements with several automaj

This system can also be equipped with an echo sounder, GPS System and broadband communication technology, to deliver precise depth measurements

Private ports too strengthening contribution to cargo volume increase

The time-tabled container services were introduced on August 20, and have been running daily between Chennai Harbour and Whitefield. Each way trip fetches a revenue of Rs 4.3 lakh

Cargo volumes at these 12 major ports under the control of the Centre declined for the fourth straight month in July 2020 and all ports barring Mormugao saw a negative growth

The LPG carrier M T BW MAPLE was outbound and M T Dawn Kanchipuram was in-bound