V. O. Chidambaranar Port creates 3 New Handling records in August

TUTICORIN: V. O. Chidambaranar Port, Tuticorin, has created new record by handling 14,590 tonnes of wheat import on Aug 5 from the vessel MV. Dream Ocean at VI Berth surpassing the previous record of 12,000 tonnes handled from the vessel MV. Lefkes on July 10, 2015. Aspinwall & Co Ltd is the Vessel Agent and Inter Ocean Shipping Pvt Ltd is the Stevedoring Agent.

RECORD HANDLING OF COPPER SLAG

Furthermore, the Port has created new record by handling 22,055 tonnes of Copper slag on Aug 9 from the vessel MV. Ata-M at Berth No II surpassing the previous record of 10,815 tonnes handled from the vessel MV. Oriente Prime on July 8, 2007.

Navship Marine Services Pvt. Ltd is the Vessel Agent and Villavarayar & Sons is the Stevedoring Agent.

RECORD HANDLING OF SULPHUR

The Port also created another new record by handling 15,735 tonnes of sulphur on Aug 18 from the vessel MV. Ken Moonys at Berth No IV surpassing the previous record of 12,157 tonnes handled from the vessel MV. Maratha Prestige on Sept 7, 2011.

Seatrans Ship Management Services Pvt. Ltd is the Vessel Agent and Diamond Shipping Agencies Pvt. Ltd is the Stevedoring Agent.

Mr S. Anantha Chandra Bose, Chairman and Mr S Natarajan, Deputy Chairman, V. O. Chidambaranar Port Trust, while thanking the stakeholder, officers and the employees of the Port, who have contributed to achieve these records in August alone (as on Aug 1 conveyed that the Port is continuously striving to achieve improvement in performance and productivity in order to attract more volume of traffic through the Port.

Both the Chairman and Deputy Chairman requested all the concerned to continue to improve the performance in future also.

Source: - Dailyshippingtimes.com