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India’s Major Ports Surge Closer to Billion-Tonne Milestone with Record 915 MT Cargo in FY26
The financial year 2025-26 has been an outstanding year for India’s major ports with cargo handling of 915.17 million tonnes (MT) surpassing the annual target of 904 MT and having a healthy growth of 7.06% over the preceding financial year. This brings us closer to its vision of breaking through the 1 billion tonne cargo handling capacity of Indian Ports, helping to drive greater efficiencies of the sector and its role in the economy.
PIB reports that Deendayal Port Authority (160.11 MT), Paradip Port Authority (156.45 MT) and Jawaharlal Nehru Port Authority (JNPA) (102.01 MT) have excelled. The Mormugao Port Authority had the highest growth (15.91%) while the growth of Kolkata Dock System and JNPA was double-digit. Majorly coal, crude oil, containers, fertilisers and petroleum products were handled.
The Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways credited the progress to its ongoing reforms and investments in capacity creation, digitisation, improvements in the multimodal transport efficiency and the turnaround times. Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal attributed this to the government’s plan under the Maritime Amrit Kaal 2047, to build Sea India.
According to the Economic Times, it not only indicates the strong post-pandemic (COVID-19) recovery, but also improvements in efficiency in the 12 major ports.
The Hindu gives credit to the contribution of ports like Deendayal and Paradip in improving the cargo traffic.
But the Times of India credited the work to the good performance of Mumbai (75.15 MMT) and New Mangalore, suggesting all-round growth.
The latter, according to industry analysts, would be the outcome of new investments towards port modernisation and development of logistics. As India’s trade expands, the emphasis is now on greening ports and practices for sustainable/eco-friendly development, and more investments towards capacity building for the billion tonne target in the next 5 years.
This is likely to provide an impetus for manufacturing, exports and employment, and improve India’s trade connectivity, through supply chains. The mark-up gives an assurance that port-led development will continue for decades and is indicative of a strong economy. And the government policy will see India’s port sector continue to sparkle in FY27 and beyond.
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