After Monday’s devastating Cyclone Vardah passed through the eastern seaboard of India, severely damaging the port city of Chennai, disrupting electrical and mobile networks, and causing damage to the city’s transport systems – especially rail infrastructure, workers at the Port of Chennai are doing everything they can to resume operations at India’s busiest east coast container gateway.
While the port proactively pulled all berthed vessels outside view for safety reasons, “there has been no official statement from the port or state authorities on the extent of damage to cargo handling facilities and other infrastructure (JOC).” As the city works to return to normalcy, the Chennai & Kattupalli Port terminals along with CFS facilities continue to assess damage inflicted by the cyclone.
Deringer will continue to monitor the situation and provide updates as conditions warrant. Please send an email to Deringer’s Marketing Department with any questions.