These are: online facility for scheduling examination of import cargo, scanner for non-intrusive examination of unaccompanied baggage, and customs clearance work on Sunday and public holidays
Container cargo traffic at Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) recorded a 65.38 per cent growth in May at 4,54,385 TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units) over 2,74,755 TEUs in the same month last year
The core issue is that China, which recovered faster from Covid, revved up export economy and is paying premiums for containers, making it more profitable to send them back empty than to refill them
Global trade is being roiled by a shortage of containers because dire predictions of a collapse this year that prompted carriers to cancel sailings have proved too pessimistic
The highest sailing cancellation since the Covid-19 outbreak was in February, registering a spike of 105 cancellations across Trans-Pacific, Asia-Europe, and the Mediterranean trades.