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Saturday, Sep 18, 2004
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Logistics
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Shipping Kolkata port hopes to achieve 45 mt throughput Our Bureau
Kolkata , Sept. 17 THE Kolkata Port Trust hopes to end up the current fiscal with a traffic throughput of more than 45 million tonnes as compared with 41.05 mt in 2003-04, according to a KoPT release. Between April and August, Kolkata Port Trust (including Haldia dock ) posted a traffic throughput of 16.09 mt as compared with 14.83 mt in the same period of 2003-04, thus posting 8.5 per cent growth. During the period, Haldia dock alone handled 14.216 mt (13.049 mt) thus registering 8.94 per cent growth. In August alone, Haldia's cargo throughput was 3.23 mt, an all-time record cargo volume handled in single month thus surpassing the previous best of 3.15 mt in July this year. In August, the crude throughput was 1.17 mt and iron ore throughput 0.47 mt. Between April and August 2004, the container throughput at Kolkata Dock System (excluding Haldia dock) was 61,851 TEUs, posting 28.52 per cent growth over that in the same period of last year.
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