Another record of cargo discharge was created at the Paradip Port on Tuesday with a ship discharging oliflux for importer Tata Steel.
The ship JS Colorado discharged 24,500 MT of cargo in 24 hours, surpassing the previous best daily record of 19,000 MT of the same cargo of oliflux at the port on July 28, 2013 from the ship TN Dawn of Tata Steel.
JS Colorado carrying 59,600 MT of oliflux loaded from Norway berthed at Paradip on Sunday night and is expected to sail out on Thursday after discharging its full cargo.
The Tata Steel and Ripley & Co had created a record a few days back in loading the highest chrome concentrate in a ship at Paradip.
The port has crossed its target of all cargo handling quantity in January 2014, two months before the end of current financial year, under the able leadership port Chairman Sudhanshu Sekhara Mishra.