The Nhava Sheva International Container Terminal (NSICT) was born when P&O Ports, now DP World, won a 30-year Build Operate Transfer concession in 1997 to invest $250m in a second container terminal at the Jawaharlal Nehru Port in Mumbai. Having fought off competition from the likes of Hutchison Port Holdings and PSA and required to handle a projected 500,000 teu by its 16th year of operations, NSICT achieved this figure in just its the second year. It also quickly set a string of records for crane productivity, berth throughput and vessel turnround.