Going by the trend, the port officials were planning to achieve 68 million tonne cargo volume by end of the financial year. VPT had ranked fourth leading port in traffic during last fiscal after Kandla, Paradip and JNPT. The refinery modernisation project envisages increasing the capacity from 8.33 to 15 million tonne. Maintaining its momentum, the port handled 65.30 million tonne during 2018-19 as against 63.54 million tonne during 2017-18. VPT through its internal accruals and PPP projects has increased capacity from 67 million tonne in 2014 to 127 million tonne.

Source: The Hindu July 01, 2019 20:03 UTC