The six-month suspension of the use of one berth by Mumbai in March to boost productivity and capacity at the APM terminal led to severe congestion at the JNPT, which in turn led to the supply chain woes being exacerbated by the fact that India's trade-active container carriers are increasingly neglecting to dock at the Port of Nhava Sheva (JNPT).
Maersk pointed out: "Due to operational restrictions, Dafei Coral 9BW, which is expected to sail on April 8, will omit Navashewa Port." "All containers on the ship will be transferred to the Maersk Cape Verde 405 standby ship, which set sail on April 11."
In addition, the MESAWA service (Middle East-India-South/West Africa) jointly operated by Dafei has also issued a similar notice to Maersk.
According to the latest trade news, Indamex service (India-US East Coast) and EPIC2 service (India-Europe), there were no out-of-port flights last week in these two key long-haul links. Among them, the Frankfurt Express on the Indamex and the Osaka Express on the EPIC2 are both vanity ships.
CMA CGM (India) said that the cargo already booked on the ship will be planned to use the next EPIC2 ship, the Colombo Express.
terminal gets some blame for bottleneck
Sunil Vaswani, executive director of the Indian Container Shipping Association, said that both the refurbishment of the GTI (APMT Mumbai) and the dredging of the BMCT (PSA) could be done at a better time to help take care of the heavy cargo flow towards the end of the financial year.
Vaswani added that the congestion was due to poor planning by onshore stakeholders, which caused some of the cargo flow bottlenecks. In addition to erratic berth supply, operators have also been hit by rising costs as the national port regulator approved a significant increase in tariffs on BMCT from April and GTI from May.
Maersk West Central Asia Regional Marine Management Director said the congestion at Nhava Sheva Port (JNPT) was caused by a number of factors and the disruption had a knock-on effect on port flows across the region.
the company is trying to alleviate supply chain problems for customers, however, due to limited loading space, maersk has been forced to reduce rail container arrivals for the as Christiana, which is scheduled to sail from mundra port on April 4.
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