India’s 12 leading ports handled a total of 463.8m tonnes in 2006- 07, equivalent to an increase of 9.51% over the 423.6m tonnes reported for the previous year. Nevertheless, the target forecast had been for 465.7m tonnes, resulting in a 0.4% shortfall.The three leading ports were: Visakhapatnam (56.3m tonnes), Calcutta/Haldia (55.05m tonnes) and Chennai (53.4m tonnes).