Around 3,000 trucks are stuck at the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT), India’s biggest port, following Sunday’s violence in which over 28 truck drivers assaulted policemen and torched the vehicles. On Monday, Navi Mumbai police’s top officials met the terminal management and agitators to keep things under control. Though port officials claimed that the high congestion was a result of industrial unrest and violence on Sunday, insiders say long queues of trucks is a daily affair.
The quantum of business loss due to congestion and delays can be ascertained only after knowing the type of cargo in each truck, experts said. But it is expected to run into hundreds of crores of rupees.
Congestion is also leading to business moving to countries like Singapore, Dubai and neighbouring China and Sri Lanka. JNPT has three terminal operators – JNPCT, NSICT and GTI.
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