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Mumbai needs no cabotage relaxation as transshipments mean so little
STATE-OWNED Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT), India's big container port near Mumbai, will not have any relaxation of cabotage laws, which restrict coastal shipping to domestic carriers, said JNPT deputy chairman Neeraj Bansal.
"We do not have a very significant number of transshipment container volumes," Mr Bansal told the Delhi-based Live Mint financial newspaper.
This differs from farther south on India's west coast where Kochi near the tip of the subcontinent have sought exemptions from the law, thus allowing foreign shipping to pick up along the coast to reach Kochi for transshipment to ports worldwide.
A transshipment container is one that arrives in a port, is unloaded and then re-loaded on another ship and taken to another destination.
"If you look at the total volumes, JN port handles on to two per cent transshipment containers. So, we are primarily a hub port where direct export-import containers are shipped," he said.
"In that sense, cabotage is not an issue which really affects JN port. So, we are not applying for the relaxation," he said.
JN port, located near Mumbai, handled 4.467 million TEU in the year ending March 2015.
"We do not have a very significant number of transshipment container volumes," Mr Bansal told the Delhi-based Live Mint financial newspaper.
This differs from farther south on India's west coast where Kochi near the tip of the subcontinent have sought exemptions from the law, thus allowing foreign shipping to pick up along the coast to reach Kochi for transshipment to ports worldwide.
A transshipment container is one that arrives in a port, is unloaded and then re-loaded on another ship and taken to another destination.
"If you look at the total volumes, JN port handles on to two per cent transshipment containers. So, we are primarily a hub port where direct export-import containers are shipped," he said.
"In that sense, cabotage is not an issue which really affects JN port. So, we are not applying for the relaxation," he said.
JN port, located near Mumbai, handled 4.467 million TEU in the year ending March 2015.
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