Daily Shipping Times Special Issue on 26th Anniversary of JNPT released 

 

MUMBAI: Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) celebrated its 26th Anniversary year and also honoured top performers at Hotel Taj Mahal in Mumbai on 28th August 2015 amidst the presence of Senior Officials of JNPT, stakeholders along with its trade partners and valued customers.

 

The occasion became more special with the release of much awaited JNPT’s 26th Anniversary Special issue published by Daily Shipping Times. This special issue was released by Mr. Neeraj Bansal, Chairman In-charge, JNPT along with Mr. Pradip Agrawal – CEO, APM Terminals Mumbai (GTI), Mr. Ravi Gaitonde, COO – APM Terminals Mumbai (GTI), Mr. Ajay Singh – CEO, DP World Nhava Sheva (NSICT) and Senior Officials of JN Port in the august gathering of shipping fraternity.

 

While addressing the gathering Mr. Neeraj Bansal, thanked his team, Trustees, labour union, trade fraternity and all its stake holders for their outstanding support in making JNPT a premier Port of the Country. He began by reminding the trade its journey of success when it began its operation way back in 1989 with an annual throughput of merely 33,000 TEUs while achieving an annual throughput of 4.47 Million TEUs in 2014-15. He was also confident of achieving 10-12 Million TEUs in another 5-7 years with the help of its existing expansion plans. 

 

He stressed that it was challenging journey since last eleven years while dealing with the efficiency parameters of the JNPCT and how it was overcome with the support of all its stakeholders. He felt very proud in stating that the port has done a very commendable job since then on most of the efficiency parameters with hardly any waiting period and shut outs which were made possible only with the immense support of his dedicated team.

 

Speaking about congestion problem faced by the trade he allayed the fears by spelling out many concrete steps taken by the port officials in order to sort out the congestions in future. 

 

He highlighted that Holding Yards have been made operational in order to reduce the trailers traffic with undocumented factory stuffed cargo boxes on the road. For this purpose the port has opened up nearly 15 hectare of Holding yards. He also assured the trade that Central Parking Plaza will be operational by the December 2016. Almost 37 hectare of parking area would be opened up in order to deal with congestion and traffic issues.

 

He laid special emphasis on the regular monitoring system which has been started with port officials reporting on the road congestion three times a day. Documentation and other processes have also been simplified with the discontinuation of pre-berthing meeting, which is now a online process. Apart from this, nearly 2.5 hours have been reduce at the liquid berth in order to accommodate more vessels. To make the port more efficient, he said that we are sitting with an open mind and our doors will always be open to sort out any problem faced in future.

 

Highlighting on the financial parameters, he said that JNPT is in a very comfortable position and some of the revenues will be utilized to develop new Ports and inland facility. JNPT plans to develop a new Port at Wadhwan near Dahanu in Maharastrta having a natural draught of 20 meters.

 

Speaking on the new initiative taken by the port to reach out its customer directly, JNPT had recently organized a trade meet in Ludhiana and Chandigarh. Transparency and congestion were the key concerns of the trade fraternity and they needed an assurance from Port management regarding the certainty of transaction cost and the likely time to be taken in the process of the overall transaction. He assured the trade that JNPT would be working on these parameters as well in serving them more efficiently in near future.

 

Earlier, Mr. A K Bose, Chief Manager (Traffic) JNPT gave a welcome speech by thanking all JNPT’s stakeholders and its valued customers for their continuous support. Pointing out the key salient feature of JNPT and its future expansion plans of the Ports, he highlighted how JNPT is still the number one Container handling port in India and initiatives taken by the port authority in ease of doing business. He highlighted that JNPT handled around 63.8 Million tonnes of cargo with an Operating Income of Rs.1500 crore and net surplus of Rs.556 crores for the last year.

 

Some of the existing and future expansions plans of JNPT highlighted in the presentation given by Mr. A. K. Bose were –

 

·         Commissioning of two mooring dolphin in March 2015

 

·         Development of 4th Container terminal in two phases with handling capacity of 2.4 Million TEUs in each phase. This will double the capacity of handling cargo at JNPT from current levels in future.

 

·         Stand alone container handling facility of DP World’s with a quay length 330 meters build on DBFOT basis which was partially operational since April 2015.

 

·         Increase draught from 12.5 Meters to 14 Meters with further plans to increase to 15 meters.

 

·         Development of additional liquid cargo jetty which will add 7.5 Million Tonnes of handling capacity to existing infrastructure with an investment of Rs.795 crores to be built on PPP basis and is expected to be completed by 2019.

 

·         Plan to develop satellite port projects near Wadhwan, Dhahanu forming a JV with MMB in additions of developing two additional dry ports near Nagpur at Wardha and the other at Jalna both in Maharashtra.

 

·         JNPT is also likely to develop the port project outside India at Chabahar Port in Iran in association with Kandla Port for Bulk as well as Container handling.

 

·         Widening of 4 lane roads to 8 lane with an investment outlay of Rs.3200 crore.

 

·         Increasing the rail traffic from current 18% to 30 % in future once the DFC project is ready by March 2018.

 

·         Port based Multi Product SEZ for which 277 hectare of land has been already identified and is likely to be finalize by the end of this year.

 

·         Promotion of Coastal Shipping projects through Shallow berth. 

 

·         Inter terminal transfer between JNPCT and NSICT and GTI.

 

·         Focusing on automated gates by eliminating Form No 13 and 11.

 

·         Registration of CFS with PCS along with implementation of RFID.

 

After the welcome speech of Mr. A K Bose, a numbers of key stake holders also spoke on this occasion congratulating the JNPT for its grand success and thanking the JNPT management for their continuous support to the trade fraternity. Speaking on the occasion were Mr. Pradip Agrawal – CEO, APM Terminals Mumbai (GTI), Mr. Ajay Singh – CEO, DP World Nhava Sheva, (NSICT), Mr. Sudip Mallick – GM Logistics, BPCL, Mr. Suresh Amirapu – CEO, Bharat Mumbai Container Terminals, Mr. Ashish Pednekar – President BCHAA, Capt. Ram Iyer representing MANSA, Capt. J. S Gill representing CSLA, Mr. Shantanu Bhadkamkar – President,  MACCIA. 

 

Almost all the speakers were unanimous in their opinion of making JN Port more efficient and transparent by expressing their continuous support and thanked the management of JNPT for its high operational efficiency.

 

While delivering vote of thanks Mr. Neeraj Bansal, Chairman In-charge JNPT once again thanked all its stake holders for making JNPT a premier port of the Country and also highlighted that very soon the coastal shipping services would commence from JN Port.

 

Top Port Customers felicitated for 2014-15

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mr. Pradip Agrawal – CEO, APM Terminals Mumbai (GTI) congratulated the JNPT Chairman and his team for creating a major milestone in achieving a throughput of 4.47 Million TEUs in last financial year. During last year APM Terminal too have achieved a milestone of 2.01 Million TEUs, which was the highest productivity and throughput ever achieved by APM Terminals Mumbai. Apart from listing several improvements at the port he especially highlighted how the gate process which use to take 8 to 10 minutes earlier has now come down to less than 3 minutes benefitting the export import trade community.

Mr. Ajay Singh – CEO, DP World Nhava Sheva (NSICT) thanked JNPT for its continuous support which enabled DP World to create many milestones in the past. DP World has always been pioneers in addressing the issue concerning the shipping industry through innovations. Recently DP World has launched the Parking Plaza, which will help the trade in relieving the congestion problem.

 

Through inter-terminal transfers, nearly 50,000 trucks have been moved between JNPT and APM Terminals, resulting in a saving of almost 200 Thousand dollars. This is quite unique and happened for the first time in Nhava Sheva. On behalf of the DP World we would like to assure the trade that we will continue to innovate by bringing new technology and talent to enhance our services.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Capt. J. S Gill representing CSLA congratulated the JN Port for achieving tremendous results last year. I would like to highlight some of most important things done differently at the JNPT. The terminal came up with newer cranes, shallow water operations became much easier allowing more vessels to call shallow water apart from doing away with several restrictions and processes. This year when the JNPT changed their windows by allowing larger movement of cargoes we were very apprehensive as to how would they do it. But to our surprise, the JNPT team have really worked very hard indeed. The gate movement at the terminal in terms of productivity has gone up by almost 60% which is a tremendous task touching a peak of almost 3200 containers trucks going in and out in a single day. We congratulate once again for such a tremendous effort on the part of JNPT team. Though the problems do creep up with time but it can be controlled by all the stakeholders coming together so that the trade doesn’t suffer too much due to such problems. On behalf of CSLA i once again congratulate for the great performance achieved by the JNPT and hope that it would be sustained and enhanced further going ahead with the team effort of all the stakeholders.