Six to eight hours instead of 20 minutes; five to eight days for tasks that used to take two days. These were the words on a recent poster regarding the Ennore port in Tamil Nadu. Even if this is happening at our ports due to geopolitics, we have major lessons to learn from it. We only realise how sluggishly we are handling matters at Trivandrum port when we look at the number of containers currently handled by Ennore port.
In August, Ennore port handled 58,414 containers. Unlike TRV, this is almost entirely gateway cargo. The picture shows us the situation when an average of 2,000 containers hit the road daily from Ennore port alone.
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