<div> <div> <div><img> Chennai’s efforts to regain lost ground have lately been complicated by its deteriorating quayside and landside productivity rates. Photo credit: Shutterstock. </div> </div> </div> The <a>Port of Chennai’s</a> one-year market share decline trend, due mainly to productivity issues, appears to be accelerating, despite steady demand growth in India’s southern region. From a long-term market hold of about 40 percent that was visible until the end of 2016, the largest east coast, public harbor saw its share of the South India container trade slip to 35 percent in January, from 36.5 percent in the prior month, according to...

Chennai’s efforts to regain lost ground in container handling have lately been complicated by its deteriorating quayside and landside productivity rates.

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