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JAWAHARLAL NEHRU PORT

JNPT, situated in Navi Mumbai, is the biggest container handling Port in India, handling around 60 per cent of the country's containerized cargo.

The port has set for itself a long term goal of achieving 10 million twenty foot equivalent units (TEU's) by the year 2014-15.

JNP boasts of a full fledged Customs House, 23 Contanier Freight Stations and a large number of inland container depots spread across the country.

JNPT will soon invite bids to build a fourth terminal on its premises with a capacity to handle 4.8 million tonnes of container every year. This, after a consortium led by PSA International backed out after failing to sign the contract.

Both the ports are well connected to the other parts of the state and the country by rail and road network.