The ports are Deendayal (erstwhile Kandla), Mumbai, JNPT, Mormugao, New Mangalore, Cochin, Chennai, Kamarajar (earlier Ennore), VO Chidambaranar, Visakhapatnam, Paradip and Kolkata (including Haldia).
While iron ore saw a 30.24% jump to 33.95 mt handled, thermal coal shipments declined by 17.82% to 58.17 mt, data showed. The 12 ports had handled 26.07 mt of iron ore and 70.79 mt of coal during April-November of the previous fiscal. Handling of coking and other coal rose by 1.95% to 37.17 mt during the eight months as compared with 36.45 mt of coking coal handled in the corresponding period last fiscal. Finished fertiliser volumes jumped 24.08% but raw fertiliser volumes declined by 3.12%.
Containers recorded a growth of 3.36% in terms of TEUs (20-foot equivalent units). According to the figures, Deendayal port handled the highest traffic volume at 82.20 million tonne.
