Cargo figures for few months cannot say Adani has overtaken JNPT: Sethi

We will revisit all the processes and facilities and the entire analysis will be done with a different lens hereon, said JNPT chairman

With three of the ports’ cranes damaged by rains and uncertainty in trade continuing to loom amid the Covid-19 outbreak, Sanjay Sethi, chairman of Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT), talks of the port’s readiness to improve risk mitigation at its facilities, while taking necessary steps to tackle stiff competition with Adani’s Mundra port terminal. Edited excerpts:

The recent storm damaged three cranes of JNPCT (Jawaharlal Nehru Port Container Terminal). How well equipped is the port in terms of insurance coverage? Is it not a failure on the port’s part that the issue could not be addressed for two whole days?