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V. O. Chidambaranar (VOC) Port handled 3.94 cardinal tonnes of cargo during October 2025, which includes 75,110 TEUs of containers, registering a 10.94% and 20.83% summation respectively.
During the aforesaid play past year, the larboard handled lone 3.55 cardinal tonnes and 62,158 TEUs.
In the existent fiscal twelvemonth until October, the larboard has handled 25.23 cardinal tonnes of cargo, including 5,03,204 TEUs of containers, representing a 2.71% maturation successful wide cargo postulation and an 8.44% summation successful instrumentality traffic.
The port’s show is further highlighted by the emergence successful vessel calls, with 1,064 vessels handled up to October 2025 arsenic against 1,004 vessels during the corresponding play of the erstwhile year. In summation to the maturation successful cargo and instrumentality handling, the instrumentality vessels mean Turnaround Time (TRT) improved from 20.16 hours to 19.20 hours, among the champion performer ports crossed India.
Commenting connected the achievement, Susanta Kumar Purohit, IRSEE, Chairperson, stated that the sustained maturation crossed each sectors reflects the port’s beardown performance, enhanced ratio and customer-centric approach. He emphasised that the larboard volition proceed to absorption connected infrastructure augmentation, integer translation and greenish initiatives to further fortify its presumption arsenic a cardinal operator of maritime commercialized and economical improvement successful the region.
