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Inaugurated the first phase of the fourth container terminal of the port of Jawaharlal Nehru (Mumbai)
Managed from group PSA, it has an ability to traffic of 2,4 million teu
February 19, 2018
Yesterday the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Ways has inaugurated the completion of the first phase of the project of construction of the fourth container terminal of the port of Jawaharlal Nehru (Mumbai), that 730 million dollars have involved an investment of 47,2 billion rupees () and that will be managed by group PSA International of Singapore through the Bharat Mumbai Container Terminals branch within a contract of the type design, build, fund, operated and transfer of the duration 30-year-old(on 12 October 2015).
The new Fourth Container Terminal (FCT), than currently has three docks for a total of about thousand linear meters of approaches equipped with 12 cranes super ship-to-Shore post-Panamax, can receive the largest portacontainer super post-Panamax currently in service and has an ability to annual traffic pairs to 2,4 million container teu.
In financial year 2016-17, that it is finished on March 31, 2017, the port of Jawaharlal Nehru has enlivened a traffic of the container pairs to 4,5 million teu, analogous volume to that of the year precedence.
With the completion of the second phase of the project of construction of terminal FCT, that it is previewed in 2022 and that will involve an investment almost 32 billion rupees for the construction of ulterior three docks for others thousand linear meters of approaches equipped with 12 cranes ship-to-Shore super post-Panamax, the annual ability to traffic of terminal FCT it will go up to 4,8 million teu and that total one of the Indian port to about ten million teu.
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