Place of visit: Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT), Navi Mumbai
Date of visit: 13th March 2020
Coordinator:prof. Praful Sarangdhar and Prof. Vivek Dighe
Accompanied by: prof. Minal Dhotre and prof.Snehal Kulkarni
No. of students attended: 33 from IMERT and MMCOE MBA.
Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) is the most modern port of India. More than 43% of India’s cargo is handled by JNPT. It is a profit making PSU of the Government of India. JNPT is the center of Import-Export business of India. Therefore, it becomes highly important to take PG students of MBA to visit JNPT.
The students were amazed looking at giant ships parked at the jetty. All operations were live. Container handling was shown to the students. While observing these operations, the information provided about ships, tug boats, containers, weight & goods inside of the containers, cranes and the business contributed by each ship. After this information on the jetty,participants moved to observe container yard, refrigeration facility for the containers containing perishable goods, scanning of containers, rail transport of containers, gantry cranes, etc