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Chennai port trust
1. Chennai Port Trust
Submitted by -
Sushant Mangal
Mustansir lokhandwala
2. Introduction
Formerly known as Madras Port.
Second largest port of India.
Has 3 docks, 24 berths and draft ranging from 12 to
16.5 m .
Handling 60 million tonnes of cargo.
Direct connectivity to 50+ ports
3. History
Maritime trade started way back in 1639 on the sea
shore Chennai.
An artificial harbor was built and the operations were
started in 1881.
In 1920 the port was equipped with a dock of four
berths in the West Quays.
In 1983, Country’s first dedicated container terminal of
380 mt. length facility was commissioned by the then
prime minister Smt. Indira Gandhi.
4. Location
Latitude - 13° 06’ N
Longitude - 80° 18’ E
Climate - Tropical
Time - +5 Hrs. 30 Minutes
6. Port Infrastructure
Dr. Ambedkar Dock :
It has a total Quay length of around 2.3 Km .
It has 12 Berths which generally cater to passengers ,
general cargo , fertilizers , and other cargoes .
One berth is presently dedicated to Naval vessels.
The draft in the dock varies from minimum of 8.5 m for
passenger berth to a maximum of 12 m for general / ore
berths .
The Entrance channel is 125 m wide .
8. Jawahar Dock :
It has a total Quay length of around 1.3 Km .
It has 6 Berths which generally cater to food-grains , coal
and other ores .
This is a closed dock with basin dimensions of 655 m *
152 m.
The draft in the dock varies from minimum of 10.4 m to
11.0 m .
In view of the trade requirements and future ship sizes,
this dock will be dredged to a depth of 14 m to enable
handling of larger vessels .
10. Bharathi Dock :
It has a total Quay length of around 1.9 Km with around
380 m for handling iron ore , 885 m for container and
rest for POL .
It has 3 Berths which generally cater to oil and iron ores .
The iron ore berth can cater to even Post-Panamax ships
having a draft upto 16.5 m.
The two POL berths have draft of 14.6 m to 16.5 m .
The iron ore berth and the POL berths are the deepest
berths at the Port .
The dock has a capacity of more than 12 million tonnes
per annum (Mtpa)
15. Use of Multi – Trailer System (MTS)
The proposed new container terminals would use
tractor- trailer trains (road units) that can carry up to
6 teu with either two 20-feet or one 40-feet container
on each of the three trailers.
The multi-trailer system (MTS) would quickly and
efficiently shuttle containers between the Port’s inter-
modal rail yard and the terminals.
17. Terminals
Container terminals : -
The port has two container terminals, run separately
by D.P World Pvt. Ltd and Singapore’s PSA
International Pte Ltd, with a combined capacity to
handle 2.8 million standard containers a year .
The port is served by various container liner services,
namely, APL, Kline , Maersk Line , MOL , NYK ,
PIL and several regional container lines.
19. Chennai Container Terminal :
Chennai Container Terminal (CCT) is the first container terminal in
Chennai port built in 1983.
The container terminal was privatized in 2001 and is operated by DP
World since 30 November 2001 with a capacity of 1.2 million TEUs.
The terminal is capable of handling fifth generation vessels up to 6,400
TEU and has direct services to China, West Africa, Europe and the United
States.
The terminal crossed the "one million TEU" mark in 2007.
In 2011, it handled 1.12 million TEUs.
It enjoys a Quay length of 885 m (2,904 ft) and has 4 berths with an
alongside depth of 13.4 m (44 ft), height (ISLW to Top of Cope) of 34 m
(112 ft), channel length of 6,700 m (22,000 ft) and channel depth of 19.2 m
(63 ft).
21. Chennai international container terminal
(CITPL):
Chennai International Terminal Pvt Ltd (CITPL) is the
second container terminal that started operations from
June 22, 2009 with berths SCB1, SCB2 and SCB3.
With 35 ha (86 acres) of yard space and three berths with
a total quay length of 832 m (2,730 ft), the terminal offers
an annual capacity of 1.5 million TEUs
CITPL would be able to accommodate 8,000-TEU vessels
with drafts up to 15.5 m (51 ft).
23. Other terminals at the Chennai Port
Ro-Ro Car Terminal :
ChPT is expected to handle 2,02,696 cars in 2012 at an
increase in growth rate of 12 % compared to 1,02,692
cars handled in 2005-2006 .
28. Cargo wise performance indicator
(IN '000' Tonnes)
For the Month of June 2012 From Apr 2012-June 2012
Commodity
Imports Exports Total Target Imports Exports Total Target
P.O.L 1257 118 1375 1125 3141 383 3524 3375
IRON ORE - - 0 0 - - - 0
Fertilizer 0 - 0 34 63 - 63 100
Fertilizer
80 - 80 26 90 - 90 79
(RAW)
NON COKING COAL 0 - 0 0 0 - 0 0
COKING COAL 0 - 0 0 0 - 0 0
CONT. CARGO 1297 1241 2538 2500 3980 3637 7617 7500
OTHER CARGO 628 298 926 1065 1565 793 2358 3195
TOTAL 3262 1657 4919 4750 8839 4813 13652 14249
Container
131486 394677
in TEU's
29. Statistics (Current Year Analysis)
Handled 55707 TEU traffic at current march-april 2012.
The capacity of berth 3 and berth 4 has been taken to 18.00MT and
24.00MT resp. in current year.
Total no of vessel handled in 2011-12 is 2043.
Coking coal has grown from 0.4 Mtpa in 2000 to 1.26 Mtpa in 2006
showing a 215% phenomenal growth.
Thermal coal is one commodity which has dropped drastically from 9.0
Mtpa to 2.0 Mtpa.
Exports of iron ore are touching a 10 Mtpa mark.
Port handled 2lakh cars in 2011-12 with the growth rate of 12%.
