Gateway Terminals handles 1 millionth container in 2008

Gateway Terminals surpassed handling 1 mn TEUs for this year on August 28th, 2008 at 11:00 Hrs. The much awaited milestone was achieved in 241 days of efficient operations.

Mr. Arvind Bhatnagar, CEO stated, 'this is yet another landmark achievement at GTI'. Mr. Prakash Tulsiani, COO added 'GTI is productive, at the same time efficient and safe'.

Gateway Terminals India Private Ltd.(GTI) is a joint venture company of A.P. Møller - Mærsk A/S and Container Corporation of India Ltd.(CONCOR). GTI has signed a license agreement

with Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) to build and operate for the next 30 years a state of the art common user container terminal at Nhava Sheva.

The terminal has a through put capacity of 1.3 million TEU and runs with modern equipment. It has 8 post panamax twin pick cranes with an 18 wide outreach, 29 energy efficient RTG's, 3 Rail Mounted Gantry Cranes, reach stackers, empty handlers and a fleet of tractor-trailers.