Nhava Sheva

Turning to freight, customs scrutiny and port bottlenecks are redrawing global dry bulk routes.

At India's Jawaharlal Nehru Port, customs authorities have held sixty container loads carrying fifteen hundred metric tons of soybeans declared as originating in the landlocked African nation of Nigeria.

The issue centers on documentation.

Authorities suspect these cargoes originated in Nigeria and were improperly routed to exploit duty-free tariff benefits reserved for least developed countries.

Okay, for example, okay, if you're talking about a customer moving from New Jersey, so New York will be the port of loading, and, uh, moving to Pune or, uh, Mumbai.

So where, uh, the, the port, uh, of, uh, discharge will be Nhava Sheva in Mumbai.

So the sailing time it is about 34 days to 38 days.

Or somebody's moving to, uh, Gurgaon, um, or, uh, Delhi, or in north.

So again, you know, these containers, it, uh...

The port of discharge will be, uh, Nhava Sheva in Mumbai or in Mundra in Gujarat, and from there it'll connect on rail.

And, uh, when you consider the port to port, I'm talking about from the origin port till the final destination, that is, uh, in, uh, Delhi, there is a inland container depot where we call it as ICD, dry ports.

So to reach there it'll take about 48 days to 52 days.

There is an article in the Journal of Commerce about how Indian ports are emerging as alternative transshipment hubs for Middle East-bound cargo as ocean carriers reroute vessels in response to the Middle East war.

Navasheva has become a central hub handling 703,251 TEUs of transshipment cargo from March through August, compared with 513,432 TEUs during the entire 2025 to 2026 fiscal year.

MUNDRA handled about 755,000 TE use from April through July, up from 640,000 TES a year earlier.

The additional traffic has increased yard density and caused periodic congestion and inland delays, prompting investment in additional storage infrastructure.