Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT), handled 4,59,920 million Twenty-foot Equivalent Units in the month of December 2020, which is the highest container volume handled in a month, ever recorded in the last twenty months. The container traffic increased by 9.90 per cent over the same month of last year and the overall traffic grew by 10.04 per cent to 6.37 million tonnes from the 5.79 million tonnes handled in December 2019.<br />''<br />''In the calendar year 2020, the total container traffic handled by port is 4.47 million TEUs, with  APM Terminals Mumbai (GTI) handling 1.69 million TEUs, DP World NSIGT – 0.77 million TEUs, DP World NSICT – 0.64 million TEUs , JNPCT – 0.56 million TEUs and BMCT handled 0.81 million TEUs. Overall traffic handled in the CY 2020 was 62.32 million tonnes including Liquid and other cargo.<br />''<br />''During the year gone by, the Centralized Parking Plaza became operational, helping in boosting Direct Port Entry, saving cost and time for Export Containers. In 2020, the port also received the operational status for India's First Port Based Special Economic Zone, JNPT SEZ. JNPT also completed the construction of a coastal berth with the capacity to handle 2.5 million tonnes of coastal cargo including liquid cargo, keeping with its commitment towards providing world-class amenities to stakeholders and to give momentum to coastal shipping and will immensely boost coastal cargo trade. <br />