Mundra becomes India’s first port to handle cargo volumes of 16 MMT in a month

Adani Group’s flagship Mundra port set another record by handling 16.1 million tonnes of cargo in October, the highest of any port in India, it said in a release.
The country’s largest port has handled 102 MMT of cargo so far this year, a year-on-year growth of 9 percent. The port crossed the 100 MMT mark in 210 days, surpassing last year’s record of 231 days.
Mundra for containers and liquids and gases witnessed double-digit growth year-on-year, said a press release issued on Sunday.

Further, it achieved another milestone of handling 4.2 million twenty-foot equivalent (TEUs) containers in just 203 days, a feat achieved in 225 days in the previous financial year.

It has added new cargoes like Hydrolysis Pie Gas (HPG) to its portfolio. So far in 2023, it has docked more than 2,480 vessels and serviced more than 11,500 rakes.