News / Rail steams in to rescue South India's shippers as haulage remains scarce

Credit PSA Mumbai

Southern India shippers are increasingly turning to direct mainline options via Nhava Sheva/Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) – a focal point of the Indian west coast container trade – as transhipment connections at Colombo Port in Sri Lanka see more disruptions because of truck capacity shortages.

French carrier CMA CGM has begun a block train service from New Mangalore Port (NMPT) to Nhava Sheva with the Container Corporation of India (Concor). The 90 teu, full capacity train is said to be ...