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Singapore's PSA International was crowned as the leading container throughput terminal operator according to Drewry's latest Global Container Terminal Operators Annual Review and Forecast report.

The new service provides a plethora of services - including the transportation of Direct Port Delivery (DPD) boxes from PSA Mumbai to Deshabhimani Publications' factory in Cochin, returning the destuffed empty containers to Mumbai before trucking to an empty container depot at Nhava Sheva.

The company said this multimodal solution was established to service the needs of Deshabhimani Publications, a major Indian paper importer.

The maiden rail freight service carries FEUs from PSA Mumbai to the India Gateway Terminal (IGT) in Cochin.

The new route reduces transit time to the end factory in Cochin from 70 days to 40 from the Russian port of origin St Petersburg.

In addition to bolstering key rail corridors between north and central India and PSA Mumbai, the new service offers a more sustainable solution enabling lower carbon emissions.

Processing 63.4 million TEU last year, the operator was tailed by APM Terminals (which saw a massive 10.3 per cent increase in box throughput) and Cosco, processing 50.4 million TEU and 49 million TEU respectively.