{"id":59654,"date":"2025-04-30T22:02:47","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T19:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/jsw-infrastructure-expects-cargo-volume-growth-rise-in-2026\/59654\/"},"modified":"2025-04-30T22:02:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T19:02:47","slug":"jsw-infrastructure-expects-cargo-volume-growth-rise-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/jsw-infrastructure-expects-cargo-volume-growth-rise-in-2026\/59654\/","title":{"rendered":"JSW Infrastructure Expects Cargo Volume Growth Rise in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div property=\"articleBody\">\n<p>India&#8217;s JSW Infrastructure said on Wednesday it expects cargo volume growth to rise in fiscal year 2026, driven by domestic sectors&#8217; resilience, while minimising concerns over U.S. tariff-led trade uncertainties.<\/p>\n<p>The<span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">\u00a0port\u00a0<\/span>operator anticipates a 10% growth in volumes, Chief Executive Rinkesh Roy said in a post-earnings call, an increase from the 9% growth logged in fiscal 2025, despite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reutersconnect.com\/all?search=all%3AL3N3OM02A&amp;linkedFromStory=true\" target=\"_blank\">signs of a slowdown<\/a> in Asia&#8217;s third-largest economy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are largely unaffected by (current tariff-induced) trade uncertainties&#8230; we (largely) cater to steel and energy sectors, which are more domestic (in nature),&#8221; Roy said.<\/p>\n<p>Private<span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">\u00a0port\u00a0<\/span>operators, including rival Adani<span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">\u00a0Port<\/span>s, benefited from steady cargo movement in India until U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reutersconnect.com\/all?search=all%3AL2N3QN01Y&amp;linkedFromStory=true\" target=\"_blank\">tariff policies<\/a> disrupted global markets, adding risks to a slowing economy.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts at Jefferies, however, noted that JSW&#8217;s focus on bulk cargo such as iron ore and coal, which are more domestically leaning, offers it greater insulation from rising global trade risks than container-heavy Adani<span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">\u00a0Port<\/span>s.<\/p>\n<p>JSW Infra re<span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">port<\/span>ed a 54% rise in fourth-quarter profit on Wednesday, boosted by volume growth in coal, while the reduction in iron ore volumes capped upside.<\/p>\n<p>However, with the recent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reutersconnect.com\/all?search=all%3AP8N3Q004J&amp;linkedFromStory=true\" target=\"_blank\">imposition of safeguard duty<\/a>, steel markets can be expected to &#8220;do well&#8221;, Roy added.<\/p>\n<p>JSW Infra&#8217;s overall cargo volumes increased 5% year-on-year, and lifted fourth-quarter revenue by 17% to 12.83 billion rupees ($151.73 million).<\/p>\n<p>While this growth lagged last year&#8217;s 9%, it matched the previous quarter and met Elara Securities&#8217; estimate.<\/p>\n<p>($1 = 84.5580 Indian rupees)<\/p>\n<p>(Reuters)<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>maritime professional<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s JSW Infrastructure said on Wednesday it expects cargo volume growth to rise in fiscal year 2026, driven by domestic sectors&#8217; resilience, while minimising concerns over U.S. tariff-led trade uncertainties. The\u00a0port\u00a0operator anticipates a 10% growth in volumes, Chief Executive Rinkesh Roy said in a post-earnings call, an increase from the 9% growth logged in fiscal &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/59655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}