The Hindu Business Line : Record single-day handling by Kandla

THE Kandla Port Trust (KPT) is all set to cross a throughput of 40 million tonne during the current fiscal, having already touched 38.09 million tonnes on March 11.

With another 20 days to go, the KPT is confident that it is on course to cross the 40-million tonne mark. This would be a major improvement on the last fiscal's performance by the port when it had clocked 37.72 million tones.

According to a media release by the KPT here on Friday, the memorandum of understanding that it had signed with the Ministry of Shipping, the Kandla port had set a target of 39 million tones for 2002-03. With almost three weeks to go for the end of the fiscal, the port was on course to exceed this target by one million tonnes, the release said.

The other significant achievement, that it handled 3.26 lakh tonnes of cargo on March 11, is a new national record for the highest single day handling by any major port. A total volume of 3,26,420 tonnes of cargo was handled by the Kandla port , comprising 2,67,121 tonnes of crude oil, 17,107 tonnes of other liquid cargo and 42,192 of dry cargo.

In the process, the port surpassed its own national mark of 3.20 lakh tonnes that was handled on September 7, 2000. The Vizag port is close behind with 3.16 lakh tones that it handled on February 17 this year.

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