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30 Aug 2017 / Mumbai, India

Heavy rains and flooding

Incessant rains hit Mumbai for the fourth straight day yesterday (Tuesday 29 August), flooding vast areas of the city.

The rain is a result of a low-pressure area that developed over Odisha and moved westwards towards the central parts of the country. There is also an upper air cyclonic circulation over the eastern part of the state and a trough that extends over the West coast, which led to very heavy rain over the Konkan coast, especially Mumbai.

Mumbai International Airport has reported delays with a few flights diverted/delayed landing.

The combination of high tide and heavy rains had pushed water into the low lying areas of the city, causing water logging, flooded roads and train stations, disrupting transport service. However, most of the flooding seems to have receded now, and transportation services resumed this morning (30 August), enabling our workers – including GAC India employees – to get home safely.

PORT AND CUSTOMS OPERATIONS:
Due to the heavy rain and declaration of public holiday today, only skeleton staff are available in the Port, Customs and offices, affecting import/export clearance in Mumbai.

For the past five days, the customs online EDI systems were not working nationwide, as the servers were down. This has affected import shipment clearance. The service is expected to resume by tomorrow (31 August).

Cargo operations alongside berths, outer anchorages and the Port Lighterage Area in Mumbai Port remain suspended since 11am local time yesterday. Operations are expected to be suspended until further notice.

Loading and unloading of containers at Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust terminal (JNPT) were also affected for more than 3 hours yesterday.

The Indian Metrological Department (IMD) has issued a warning of heavy to very heavy rain until 31 August. The latest weather update for respective ports is as follows:
* KANDLA & MUNDRA - Cloudy weather; but no rain
* SIKKA/JAMNAGAR/NAVLAKHI - Raining heavily last night; presently, light to medium showers reported. Vessel operations not affected, though conditions have slowed down all operations, in general.
* HAZIRA/DAHEJ - Heavy rains last night; presently normal weather with no disruptions to operations reported.
* MUMBAI - Operations at alongside berths/anchorage suspended due to prevailing severe weather
* SOUTH OF WEST COAST INDIA - presently cloudy with intermittent light to medium showers experienced in Goa, New Mangalore and much less rain in Cochin. No disruption of vessel operations reported.

For further details or information about operations in India contact GAC India at [email protected]

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