Sea transport is the largest carrier of freight in the world. In India, Nhava Sheva International Container terminal (Jawaharlal Nehru Port) in Navi Mumbai handles the highest traffic in the country. Find out more about the world's busiest ports.
The Nhava Sheva International Container terminal in Navi Mumbai (Jawaharlal Nehru Port) is the busiest port in India, handling nearly 60 per cent of India's port traffic.
Nhava Sheva is India's first privately managed container terminal. Developed at a total cost of $250 million, the terminal handled around 1.5 million TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent unit -- containers are counted in 20-foot lengths) in 2007-08.
Currently it is managed by DP world under a build-operate-transfer agreement set up with the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust.
Image: Containers are loaded onto a ship at the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) premises. | Photograph: Indranil Mukherjee/AFP/Getty Images
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