Recently, due to power outages, southern India's Adani Ennore Container Terminal (AECT) operations face disruption, the shipping company Duffy had to call the port on a regular basis to change the port of container ships.
It is understood that Duffy's a deployment in the NEWMO route, capacity of 9326 TEU container ship APL Boston wheel in the Enol port queue waiting for two days, still can not get berth, APL Boston wheel had to be transferred to the Chennai port (Chennai) unloading.
This will enable us to continue loading the export containers already at the terminal," said Duffy's Indian agent. Our priority remains to clear as many export containers as possible."
Ennore Port has been facing power outages over the past week, in addition to capacity pressure on the port as MSC used its ownership interest in Ennore Port to issue a series of unscheduled or temporary transhipment vessel calls.
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"The yards at Enol are overflowing with containers that cannot be loaded onto scheduled flights," said a shipping agent at Chennai port.
"The available berthing windows are being allocated on a rotational basis, creating a chaotic situation for ship scheduling."
The sources also pointed out that the impasse has forced some vessels to shift from Enol harbour to Kattupalli, which is also the Adani Group's terminal on the Chennai coast.
The NEWMO route, which has been calling directly to Enol since last year, prioritises faster turnaround and higher productivity as Enol has more advanced and sophisticated harbour cranes and better draught levels.
Seventeen vessels are utilised in the new service stream, with weekly connections to London Gateway, Rotterdam, Hamburg, Antwerp, Le Havre, Valencia, La Spezia, Fos Sur Mer, Pointe Des Galets, Port Louis, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Fremantle, Singapore, Ennor and Colombo on a 119-day round-trip rotation cycle.
The call of APL Boston also marked a milestone for Chennai as it became the deepest draught container vessel ever handled.
The previous record for Chennai port was the call of CMA CGM Mozart in January 2017, according to port sources.
According to port data, throughput at Enol Port was around 61,000 Teu in April, up from 49,000 Teu in the same month last year, while relative throughput at Chennai Port increased to 135,000 Teu from 124,000 Teu.
More broadly, the data showed that transhipments at India's major government ports have increased sharply in recent months, with total transhipments soaring to about 53,000 teu in April from 16,500 teu a year earlier, a spike that sources believe reflects diversion of cargoes related to the Red Sea crisis.
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