25 Jawaharlal Nehru Throughput: 4,185,000teu (+7.6%)

Container volumes at India's busiest container port saw growth of over 17% in the first half of the fiscal year, but were severely dented in the second half, to bring full-year growth down to 7.6%.

The situation has continued to deteriorate, with Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) reporting volumes declining 14.4% in December, 22.7% in January and 26.6% in February, compared with the same months a year earlier.

Container throughput and vessel calls are both down, with export traffic down "substantially", exacerbated by a newly imposed duty on steel exports.

Three of the 40 main liners operating from JNPT – Zim Integrated Shipping Services, Malaysia International Shipping Corp and Hanjin Shipping – have withdrawn their services, and those that remain are handling lower volumes.

(This year, Cargo Systems is reporting calendar year figures for JNPT, compared to the fiscal year figures previously published).