The city is classified as an industrial zone and has port facilities to handle container traffic.

During the last decade, there has been a steady growth of container traffic at the Indian ports.

As a result, container traffic at the port has increased to over 77 million tons from 55 million five years ago.

During 2008-09, the port recorded a 17.2% share of container traffic in India.

It is well connected with road, and handles approximately 65% of India's container traffic.

This will also take account of the increasing significance of container traffic from the ports.

The state's small ports cannot handle large volumes of container traffic.

Over sixty percent of the world's container traffic is conveyed on the top twenty trade routes.

DO's management early recognized the potential in coast-to-coast container traffic.

The docks at Felixstowe were expanding and in 1967 started handling container traffic.