Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone last week received the first batch of new marine equipment that India’s biggest port operator plans to install at its under-construction Adani CMA Mundra Terminal, a joint venture with France shipping giant CMA CGM.
The new equipment included four super post-Panamax rail-mounted quay cranes with twin-lift capability and three rubber-tire gantry cranes that will allow the port to handle its increasing throughput at a time of weak demand.
ACMT, the fourth container facility at Mundra Port, is expected to start operations in the first half of next year.
On completion, the new terminal will have 2,133 feet of quay, draft of 54 feet, 67 acres of yard space, four rail-mounted quay cranes and 12 rubber-tire gantry cranes, capable of handling ships with capacities of 18,000 twenty-foot-equivalent units. The terminal will have an initial capacity of 1.3 million TEUs per year, taking Mundra’s combined throughput capacity to 5.5 million TEUs.
Mundra’s other container facilities include APSEZ-operated Adani Mundra Container Terminal; Adani International Container Terminal, a joint venture between APSEZ and Mediterranean Shipping Co.; and DP World-managed Mundra International Container Terminal.
Mundra is about 300 nautical miles from Jawaharal Nehru Port Trust, India’s largest major, state-owned container port complex.
Port statistics compiled by JOC.com show the privately held Mundra port increased container volumes by 10 percent in the first fiscal half through the end of September from a year earlier to 1.48 million TEUs. Though the growth rate was much slower than the same period last fiscal year, when Mundra recorded a 29 percent year-over-year volume gain, it was still significant in the wake of sluggish global demand.
Adani Group’s port operations in India include cargo facilities at Hazira, Tuna-Tekra (Kandla), Dahej, Goa, Dhamra, Visakhapatnam, Kattupalli and a new container terminal at Ennore, near Chennai. In addition, the company is building a deep-water container transshipment terminal at Vizhinjam, a green-field site near Trivandrum.
Source: JoC
Source: JoC