Paradip port handled excess cargo this year
Paradip Port Trust chairman Mr K Raghuramaiah expressed satisfaction over the performance in cargo handling during the first six months of the the current financial year, marking an increase over the corresponding period of last year. PPT officials said principal commodities, which have registered significance increase in volume during the first six month of the current financial year, are 1,244,148 tones of fertilizer raw materials (dry) which is 41.18 per cent more than the corresponding period of the previous year. A percentage of 29.72 increase in petroleum oil and lubricants was achieved by handling 627.219 tones against 483.528 tones during the first six months last year.
The traffic on fertilised raw materials will be further boosted after the formal agreement with Indian Farmer’s fertilizer Co-Operative Ltd on Sunday for cargo handing operations in the captive berth. The PPT has plans to install special fertiliser terminal to be constructed on Build-Operation-Transfer (BOT) on southern side of the port. A new container will also be built on this side to handle the increasing cargo.
Results of the first six months of the current year showed that the total traffic handled during the period was 17,679,558 tones against 16,115,190 tones handled during the corresponding period of the previous year. Similarly, iron ore handled by the port was 5,645,623 tones against 4,745,785 tones in the same period last year. Further, a record quantity of 1,76,437 tones of hard coke was imported during the month surpassing the previous record of 1,58,996 tones handled during October, 2005.
