India, Sept. 4 -- In a significant boost for India's maritime capabilities, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Singaporean counterpart, Lawrence Wong, on Thursday virtually inaugurated the second phase of the PSA Bharat Mumbai Container Terminal (BMCT) at the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Authority (JNPA). The launch commissions BMCT as India's largest standalone container terminal, doubling its cargo handling capacity from 2.4 million to 4.8 million TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units). It also makes JNPA the country's largest container port by capacity.

The Rs.7,915 crore project - developed through a 30-year public-private partnership between JNPA and PSA International, a Singapore-based port operator - represents the largest single foreign ...