Bulk and Break-Bulk Cargo in Mumbai
Mumbai exists because of its harbour. The old port on the eastern waterfront and Jawaharlal Nehru Port at Nhava Sheva across the water together carry a very large share of India's container and bulk trade, with the clearing, forwarding and warehousing business built around them.
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Jawaharlal Nehru Port, Nhava Sheva
Port authority
Jawaharlal Nehru Port at Nhava Sheva, across the harbour in Navi Mumbai, opened in 1989 and is the largest container port in India, handling more than half the country’s container traffic through five terminals run by AP
Port authority
Mumbai Port, the old Bombay Port Trust of 1873, runs the docks along the eastern waterfront — Indira Dock, Prince’s and Victoria Docks, the Jawahar Dweep oil berths and the Sewri and Haji Bunder bulk berths — from its he
Shipping line
Great Eastern Shipping, founded in 1948 by the Sheth and Bhiwandiwalla families, is the largest private shipping company in India, listed on the exchanges and headquartered at Ocean House, 134/A Dr.
Shipping line
Shipping Corporation of India, the Government’s shipping company formed in 1961, is headquartered at Shipping House, 245 Madame Cama Road, Nariman Point, and runs tankers, bulk carriers, container ships and the Andaman p
Sewri and the Eastern Waterfront
Shipbuilder
Mazagon Dock, the Government shipyard at Mazagaon on the eastern waterfront, builds warships and submarines for the Navy — the Scorpène submarines and the Visakhapatnam-class destroyers — on a site that has built ships s
Steel stockyard
Steel Authority of India’s stockyard at Kalamboli, in the steel market of Navi Mumbai, is the distribution point for its plates, coils and structurals in the Mumbai region; the Kalamboli steel market around it is the lar
Bulk and Break-Bulk Cargo across the city
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