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India's major ports have seen a 1.74% increase in cargo traffic. Union Minister for Ports, Shipping and Waterways, Sarbananda Sonowal, says turnaround time is 0.9 days, and investments in port ...

India's major ports handled the highest ever cargo at 795 million tonne in 2022-23, Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways Secretary Sudhansh Pant said today.

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India’s major ports handled the highest ever cargo at 795 million tonne in 2022-23, Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways Secretary Sudhansh Pant said on April 21.

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The 12 major ports of India handled 393.73 million tonnes cargo during the first six months of this fiscal year, representing a 2.35 per cent rise over the same period of the last fiscal and ...

New Delhi: Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Friday said that India’s major ports handled the highest-ever cargo at 795 million metric tonne in 2022-23, registering an increase of 10.4% over ...

The average turnaround time for the major ports in India has nearly halved to 48.06 hours in 2023-24 from 93.59 hours in 2013-14.

Enormous progress has been made. At what the government classifies as its “major ports”—a dozen of them—capacity has more than doubled in the past decade from 745m tonnes to over 1,600m.

“Our major ports have handled the highest ever cargo in the history of the ports at 795 million metric tonne. This is 10 per cent higher than the previous year’s cargo handled,” he told PTI.