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Jawaharlal Nehru Port, also known as JNPT and Nhava Sheva Port, is the second largest container port in India after Mundra Port. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Operated by the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust Authority (JNPTA), it is located on the eastern shores of Arabian Sea in Navi Mumbai , Raigad district, Maharashtra.
Over the decades, the port underwent tremendous expansion, with the addition of berths and cargo handling capacities. However, Mumbai's expanding growth and population pressure constrained the growth of the port by the 1970s. This led to the establishment of the Nhava Sheva port across Mumbai Harbour in Navi Mumbai on the Konkan mainland. Nhava ...
This article lists the world's busiest container ports (ports with container terminals that specialize in handling goods transported in intermodal shipping containers), by total number of twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) transported through the port. The table lists volume in thousands of TEU per year.
The port is one of the six ports in India through which drugs are permitted to be imported, which is handled by the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO), the other ports being Kolkata, Mumbai, Nhava Sheva, Kochi and Kandla ports. [107] As of 2011, cargo movement to the port is increasing by 21 percent. [61]
Navi Mumbai has the second-largest container terminal in India after Mundra Port, Jawaharlal Nehru Port at Nhava Sheva near Uran. [29] It is well connected by road and rail and handles approximately 56.13% of India's container traffic. [30] [31] The Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport, 30 km away, is the nearest airport to the city.
The NH 66 connects the major sea ports of West India, Mumbai, JNPT at Nhava Sheva, Vizhinjam International Seaport at Trivandrum, Mormugao , New Mangalore , International Container Transshipment Terminal, Kochi, Kollam Kollam Port and Ratnagiri Port and other important ports like Beypore Port and Kollam Port.
Port of Kollam; Port of Nhava Sheva (Jawaharlal Nehru Port) ... Port of Tuticorin (V. O. Chidambaranar Port) Indonesia. Port of Cirebon, Cirebon; Port of ...
The Mumbai Trans Harbour Link, officially named as Atal Bihari Vajpayee Sewri–Nhava Sheva Atal Setu and colloquially known as Atal Setu, is a 21.8 km (13.5 mi) 6-lane grade separated expressway [9] bridge, which connects Mumbai with Navi Mumbai, its satellite city. It is the longest sea bridge in India, and the world's 12th longest sea bridge.