Led by 18 per cent year-on-year (YoY) growth in containers, Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone or APSEZ handled 41.9 million metric tonne (mmt) of total cargo during December 2025, reflecting a 9 per cent YoY growth. 

In a regulatory filing, APSEZ noted that it handled 367.3 MMT of total cargo year-to-date (YTD) December 2025, clocking an uptick of 11 per cent on-year. Containers drove the growth during the period. Logistics rail volume during December 2025 stood at 59,037 TEUs (20-foot equivalent units), unchanged on a YoY basis. General purpose wagon investment scheme (GPWIS) volume was at 1.8 MMT, marking a 7 per cent on-year dip.

The company pointed out that logistics rail volume during YTD December 2025 stood at 528,872 TEUs, a growth 11 per cent YoY and GPWIS volume was at 16.1 MMT.

Last year, Adani Group prohibited the entry of tankers sanctioned by Western countries across all its ports, a move that could affect Russian oil deliveries to two major Indian refiners.

HPCL-Mittal Energy, which operates the 226,000-barrels-per-day Bathinda refinery in Punjab, receives all its crude shipments at Adani’s Mundra Port in Gujarat. Indian Oil Corp (IOC), India’s largest refiner, also imports Russian crude at Mundra alongside other ports. Both companies have regularly received Russian oil at Mundra in recent years, the report stated.

Adani’s internal orders stated that sanctioned vessels “shall not be permitted entry, berthing or use of port services and facilities,” and require agents to provide written confirmation that ships are not under sanctions. The orders cite safeguarding the “legal and commercial interests of the port.”

Source: Businessworld 

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