Paradip port handles a record carge in Feb

01 March, Paradip (Odisha)

Paradip Port Trust (PPT) has achieved record handling of 7.09 million metric tonnes of Cargo in a single month in February 2016 surpassing the previous highest quantity of 6.50 million metric tonnes of Cargo handled in a month in January 2016.

PPT sources said It is indeed a great moment for Paradip Port that it had crossed 7 million metric tonnes in the month of February 2016 for the first time in the history and achieve a growth of approximately 26 per cent over the corresponding month of last year.

Paradip Port Trust has handled 68.77 million metric tonnes of cargo till the end of February 2016 as compared to 64.52 million metric tonnes handled during the corresponding period of previous year, an increase of 6.58 per cent over the traffic handled during the correspondent period of the previous year.BM