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V.O. Chidambaranar (VOC) Port handled 35.97 cardinal tonnes of cargo until January 2026 successful the existent fiscal year, registering a maturation of 6% compared to 33.94 cardinal tonnes handled during the corresponding play of the erstwhile fiscal year.
The accomplishment represents handling implicit 2 cardinal tonnes of cargo, erstwhile compared to past year, underscoring the port’s robust cargo handling performances.
Adding to this, the larboard registered a historical milestone successful January 2026 by handling 4 cardinal tonnes successful a azygous month, beating the erstwhile champion of 3.95 cardinal tonnes handled successful March 2024.
The larboard has besides recorded a 9.40% summation successful instrumentality traffic, with 2 instrumentality terminals handling 7,16,105 TEUs of containers up to January successful the existent fiscal twelvemonth 2025-2026, compared to 6,54,590 TEUs handled successful the corresponding play of the erstwhile fiscal year.
According to Susanta Kumar Purohit, IRSEE, Chairperson, the grounds achievements bespeak the port’s robust performance, operational ratio and dedication to serving its stakeholders.
He said the larboard would proceed to prioritise infrastructure developments, easiness of doing business, digitalisation and greenish initiatives to reenforce its presumption arsenic a cardinal operator of maritime commercialized and economical maturation successful the region.
It is noted that successful the existent fiscal twelvemonth until January 2026, the larboard has witnessed a important maturation successful cargo handling. Industrial ember recorded a maturation of 12.78%, operation materials 92.10%, fertilizers 40.12%, stone phosphate 12.65%, fertilizer earthy materials 11.51% and edible lipid 17.52% reflecting the port’s expanding commercialized volumes.
