The Ministry of Shipping has confirmed on Wednesday that the operations at India's one of the three largest port, Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT), have been partially halted due to the global cyber attack 'Petya'.
The cyber attack also partially disrupted the operations of a private port operator APM Terminals Pipavav, which reportedly took place at late Tuesday night.
“We have been informed that the operations at GTI have come to a standstill because their systems are down (due to the malware attack). They are trying to work manually,” a senior JNPT official said.
To reduce the impact of the cyber attack, IT Ministry has sent National Cyber Security Advisor Gulshan Rai to assess the situation. While the government's cyber security unit worked overtime to send out advisories to all critical infrastructure.
"The ICT infrastructure installed, managed and operated by government authorities, central and state, are functioning efficiently," Rai told.
In a statement issued by the Shipping Ministry, it said: “An unforeseen situation has developed at Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT), Sheva owing to disruption in the operations of one of the private terminal operator, APM Maersk at JNPT. It has been informed by the private Terminal Operator that this disruption is a consequence of a worldwide disruption being faced by them because of a cyber attack.”
JNPT has the capacity of 1.8 million standard container units, is located near Mumbai. As per the reports of Bloomberg, the private terminal owners are not able to load or unload material, as it is hard for the officials to identify the owners of the shipments.