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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.
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]
The port is administered by the Mumbai Port Trust (MbPT, formerly the Bombay Port Trust (BPT)), an autonomous corporation wholly owned by the Government of India. [5] The port is primarily used for bulk cargo, while most container traffic is directed to Nhava Sheva port across the harbour.
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 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.
According to Constitution of India, maritime transport is to be administered by both the Central and the State governments. While the central government's shipping ministry administers the major ports, the minor and intermediate ports are administered by the relevant departments or ministries in the nine coastal states of Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Odisha ...
Vadhvan Port is a proposed deep seaport at Vadhvan in Palghar district of Maharashtra.The ground breaking for start of construction was done by PM Narendra Modi on 30 August 2024.The concept plan for an offshore mega Port was designed by Surendra Sharma a fellow of NMIS in 2015 for MMB; the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Authority (JNPA) is responsible for the construction of the port. [1]
The Western Dedicated Freight Corridor or Western DFC is a 1,506 km long, under-construction 1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in) freight corridor in India. It will connect Dadri in Uttar Pradesh (near Delhi) with the Jawaharlal Nehru Port in Navi Mumbai, Raigad District, Maharashtra.