MUMBAI: The Indira Dock Complex at Mumbai Port Trust, the second oldest Major Port after Kolkata handled a record traffic of 8.36 MMT in the financial year 2014-15 recording a remarkable increase of over 28.53% over its previous year cargo throughput of 6.51 MMT.

 

Amongst various commodities handled in the Indira Dock Complex, the highest growth of over 117.5% was registered in Iron and Steel import segment followed by 82.78% in import of raw fertilizers and 42.29% in export of vehicles in thousand tonnes.

 

Shri Ravi M. Parmar, Chairman, Mumbai Port Trust said, with this record handling of bulk, break bulk and vehicular traffic from its facility, Indira Dock Complex has emerged to be a major export-import hub for the steel & fertilizer industries and automobile manufacturers located in and around the city of Mumbai promoting India's share of export-import trade.