The document provides information on the major ports of India, listing 13 ports and giving details on their location, facilities, commodities handled, and brief histories. It summarizes the key details of Paradip Port, Kolkata Port, Cochin Port, New Mangalore Port, and others, noting their locations, facilities for storage, berths, and more. References are provided at the end from sources like the Indian Ports Association and news articles.

1. Major Ports of
India
Prepared by:
Bhavya Jaiswal
20MCT006

2. CONTENT OF THE
PRESENTATION
• Introduction
• Major Ports of India
 Paradip Port
 Kolkata Port
 Cochin Port
 New Mangalore Port
 Vizhinjam Port
 Ennore Port
 Pipavav Port
 Vizag Port
 Mundra Port
 Mormugao Port
 Kandla Port
 Chennai Port
 Jawaharlal Nehru Port
 Tuticorin Port

3. Introduction
• India has a tremendous coast line of around 7400 kilo meters served by 13
significant ports and around 184 minor ports and private ports.
• Port is significant in global exchange. Since a seaport is the nerve of unfamiliar
exchange allowing import of merchandise.
• The significant ports are those ports which are under the review of the focal
government and the minor ports otherwise called non significant ports.
Notwithstanding, just 61 of the 185 minor ports give round the year berthing offices.

4. Major Ports of India
 Here, as you can
see in the picture
the location and
overall placement
of the major ports
are given.

5. Paradip Port
Details:
• Paradip port is arranged 210 nautical miles
south of Calcutta and 260 nautical miles north
of Visakhapatnam.
• latitude 20° - 15'- 55.44"N
• Longitude 86° - 40'- 34.62" E
Introduction:
• Paradip is one of the Major Ports of India. The Port was opened to Traffic on twelfth March 1966.
Legislature of India pronounced Paradip as the Eighth Major Port of India on eighteenth April 1966.

6. Facilities
• Storage Facilities
• Pilotage & Towage Facilities
• Berths & Handling Facilities
• Safety & Security Facilities
• Single Point Mooring (Spm) Facilities
• Marine Pollutions & Reception Facilities

7. Commodity Handled
• Clinkers
• Chrome Ore
• Steel coils
• Thermal coal
• Charge chrome
• Ferro Chrome
• Ferro Manganese
• Manganese Ore
• Iron Ore
• Scrap
• Project Cargo
• Fertilizer
• Coking Coal
• Steel billets
• Food – grains
• Hard Coke
• DBM
• Limestone

8. Kolkata Port
Brief History:
• Kolkata is the most established significant port in the
country. The ability to control this tremendous nation
passed from the East India Company to the British
Crown. The issues of the Port were brought under the
authoritative control of the Government with the
appointment of a Port Commission in 1870. Kolkata
port is consider as significant port in 1975, after the
Major port trust act 1963 came into power.
Area:
• latitude of 22°32'53" North, Longitude - 88°18'5" East.

9. Facilities
• It is an All-weather port
• 12 berths inside an impounded dock
• Comprises 3 riverine Oil Jetties
• two riverine barge jetties and Haldia Anchorage for LASH vessels.
• Average draft availability is 8.5 meters
• Lock Gate: 985 feet x 130 feet
• Land Area: 6367 acres

10. Cochin Port
• The Port is arranged on the Willingdon
Island which is a fake Island tucked inside
the Backwaters.
• The Port of Cochin is situated on the South West Coast of India, in the province of
Kerala at 9deg58°N, 76deg 16' E.

11. Features of Cochin port
• The Port is arranged on the Willingdon Island which is a counterfeit Island tucked
inside the Backwaters. The backwaters offer quiet and peaceful channels for ships
consistently, in any event, during the Monsoon season.
• Indian Railway Network gives seamless connectivity to South and Central India.
The National Waterway NW3 gives availability toward the South Kerala. The port
has a worldwide air terminal in its vicinity. The organization of rail lines streets,
streams and aviation routes has made great availability to the port.
• The port is fostering India's first Port Based Special Economic Zone.

12. New Mangalore Port
• New Mangalore Port is situated on the West Coast of India halfway among Kochi
and Mormugao. It is an all climate port and the sea door of Karnataka State.
• The Port is served by a Broad Gauge Railway line and is all around associated with
Southern part of country through Mangalore, Kerala State and Chennai.
LOCATION:
Latitude : 120 55'N
Longitude : 740 48'E

13. New Mangalore Port
Entrance Channel:
• Minimum width : 245mtr.
• Minimum depth: 15.4mtr
• Length: 7500mtr
• The Port is handling liquid chemical through POL products, containers and bulk
cargoes like Granite stone, Timbers, Coal, Coke, Iron Ore pellets, Fertilizers
• The Port has 14 berths, which includes 9 General Cargo berths and 4 oil jetties.

14. FEATURES OF THE New
Mangalore Port
• Most profound Inner harbor on the west coast with
15.40mtrs profundity at the passageway channel.
• First among the Major Ports of India licensed
with International Ship and Port Security(ISPS) Code
Certification.
• Biggest LPG dealing with Port in India
• third Largest POL dealing with Port in India
• Effectively available to 3 National Highways – NH
13, 17, 48 - South Western, Konkan and Southern
Railway - and likewise Air Port

15. Vizhinjam Port
• Vizhinjam is on the edges of Trivandrum,
16km away from the downtown area and
1 km away from as far as possible,
however situated inside the Trivandrum
metropolitan city area. Vizhinjam is a
characteristic port, which is found near
the worldwide boat course.

16. Benefits of proposed Vizhinjam port
• Closeness to worldwide transportation course and East-west shipping pivot.
• Accessibility of 20 m form inside a nautical pretty far the coast. Insignificant littoral
float along the coast and in this way scarcely any support digging.
• Quickness to public/territorial street, rail organization
• Adaptability in plan and development being Greenfield project close to
Thiruvananthapuram city that has an international airport, human asset and social
foundation
• The business, innovative and political significance of Trivandrum, the quickest
developing IT center point in India.

17. Ennore Port
• Ennore port is arranged on the coromandel coast about 24km north of Chennai
Port along the coast line, in the State of Tamil Nadu.
• It is the 12the Major Port in India and the first Corporatized Major Port in India
• The Port was pronounced as a Major Port under the Indian Ports Act, 1908 in
March 1999 and consolidated as an Ennore Port Limited under the Companies
Act, 1956 in October 1999.

18. Ennore Port

19. Ennore Port
• The passable draft is 13.5m
• The port was initiated and devoted to the Nation by the Honorable Prime Minister of
India on 1.2.2001.
• Ennore Port as of now possesses 836 ha of land found inside and outside of the
port limit divider.
• The fundamental load dealt with at the Port of Ennore is thermal coal, which is
import for TNEB (Tamil Nadu Electricity Board). Other present cargoes dealt with
are iron mineral and fluid mass load.

20. Pipavav Port
• Port Pipavav is situated at Latitude 20 54'N and Longitude 71 30'E on the west
shoreline of India, a ways off of 140 Kms South west of Bhavnagar.

21. Pipavav Port
Pilotage and Towage:
• Pilotage at Port Pipavav is mandatory. Port Pipavav gives the pilotage and fee administrations at the
port and has sent three pulls for this reason.
Channel:
• The channel length at the port is 4,550 meter and due to the great oceanographic conditions, the port
offers day and night route to all vessels other than LPG vessels which are berthed or de-berthed
during the day as it were.
Draft
• Port Pipavav presently has a vessel acknowledgment draft of 12.5m, with an external channel
profundity of 12.5m and a turning bowl profundity of 11.5m at diagram datum. The draft at the mass
and compartment billets is 13.5m and at the LPG compartment the draft is 15.5m at diagram datum.

22. Vizag Port
• Visakhapatnam Port on the Indian East
Coast located at 170 41' N and 830
18'E.
• It is the most regular and most
effortlessly framed port on the east
shoreline of India.
• Exchanges
• IMPORT:- Coking Coal, Steam Coal,
Fertilizer, LAM and Pet Coke
• Export:- CP Coke, Steel Products , POL
,Alumina, Thermal Coal

23. Mundra Port
• Mundra port is situated at 60 km west of Gandhi Dham in Kutch locale of Gujarat. Mundra
Port is deliberately situated at (Latitude: 22° 43'88'N; Longitude: 69° 42' 34' E)
• Mundra port is an all climate, free and business port.
• The pilotage withing Mundra port cutoff points is mandatory.
• Mundra port has an unmistakable profound water approach with a base depth of 18 m at any
condition of tide.
• Mundra has 8 pulls
• The flowing reach is between +0.37 m and +6.40 m; flowing streams stream 0700-2500 at a
normal rate of3 kts., and 4-5 kts. during spring tides.

24. Mundra Port
Storage facilities :-
• Warehouses, God owns and Open Storage
areas.
• MPSEZ has state of art tank farms, inventory
management systems with 78 tanker loading
bays and 12 unloading bays. The tank farm
has a capacity of around 3,60,000 KL.
Berths:-
• Presently MPSEZ has 8 multipurpose berths, 4 container berths and a single point
mooring (SPM)

25. Mundra Port
Fluid Cargo:
• Tank terminal with 81 tanks with absolute stockpiling volume of 3,45,624 kilolitre for capacity
of different fluids like consumable oils, oil based commodities, bitumen in mass and synthetic
compounds.
Mass Cargo:
• 21 shut godowns advertisement estimating 1,37,000 sq. m., for wheat, rice, sugar, deoiled
cakes (DOC), manure, compost crude materials (FRM), and so forth 8,80,000 sq. m. of very
much separated open extra room for steel sheets, plate, curls, scrap, clinker, salt, coal, coke,
bentonite, and so on 26,000 sq. m of open stockpiling close by rail siding

26. Mormugao Port
• Mormugao Port, GOA is the head iron
mineral sending out Port of India with a
yearly throughput of around 33.81 million
tones of iron metal traffic.
• Mormugao Port, GOA perhaps the most
seasoned port on the west shoreline of
India, with a fine characteristic harbor.
• It has been constantly serving the country in
its economic development for longer than a
century.

27. Mormugao Port
• The Port was announced a Major Port on 2.12.1963.
• Existing methodology channel of - 14.40 m. To be further deepened to - 15.40 m.
• Openings for fostering an undeniable compartment terminal
• Country's head door on the western coast for mass payload
• Ready to deal with the energy needs of the area as a Major coal taking care of port.
• Takes into account about 40% of the iron metal took care of through the country.
• Possibilities for voyage the travel industry advancement of seaward energy
• investigation coordination base and apparatus fixes/overhauling

28. Kandla Port
• Kandla port is arranged in the Kandla Creek and is 90 kms. from the mouth of the Gulf
Of Kachchh. It is a secured common harbor. latitude: 23° 01'N Longitude: 70° 13' E

29. History of Kandla Port

30. Chennai Port
• The port has 3 docks.
• It has 23 berths.
• draft permissible at Chennai port is
12m to 16.5m.
• The port is having railway lines
running up to 68 kms

31. Chennai Port
• Chennai Port, the third most established port among the 12 significant ports.
• This door port for all payload has finished 126 years of superb support of the country's
oceanic exchange.
• The major commodities handled at the port are:
Fertilizers (products and raw materials),
Automobiles (export),
Iron ore,
POL,
Containers,
General cargoes.

32. Jawaharlal Nehru Port
• JNPT is the second most youthful port after
Ennore. It is situated at the eastern finish of
Mumbai in the Nhava Sheva region and
arranged at latitude 18° 56' 43" N and
longitude 72056' 24" E.
• Current planned channel profundity of JNPT is
11 meters and profundity at billets is 13.5
meters. JNPT can take in vessels having loaded
draft up to 12.5 meters. The width of the channel
is 400 meters at section point and 460 meters off
the billets.

33. Jawaharlal Nehru Port
• Handles 56% of India's all out containerized freight
• Positions 31st among the best 100 Container Ports on the planet
• Beneficiary of Indira Priyadarshini Vrikshamitra Award – 1996 for the Greenest Port in India
• Profoundly robotized and mechanized tasks with Single Window System
• Spread over a land space of 2,584 hectares
• Served by 16 Container Freight Stations and
• Outfitted with the most recent Vessel Traffic Management System (VTMS) to follow/screen
vessel developments guaranteeing safe navigation
• All around associated by National Rail/Road organization

34. Tuticorin Port
• Tuticorin Port is situated on the South Eastern coast of India at latitude 80 45'N
and longitude 780 13'E.

35. Tuticorin Port
• announced as a minor jetty port in 1868.
• On July 11, 1974,Tuticorin Port was pronounced as the 10th significant port.
Imports:-
• Wood logs, M.O.P., Urea, Rock phosphate, Copper, Industrial coal, Containerized
payload and so on and
Exports:-
• Sugar, Sand, Maize, Granite stone, Sulphuric corrosive, const. material, Containerized
freight and so on

36. References
• "Operational Details". Indian Ports Association. Retrieved 17 December 2014.
• https://www.mapsofindia.com/answers/states/which-indian-state-has-the-maximum-number-of-major-
ports/attachment/map-of-india-showing-the-state-having-the-maximum-number-of-major-ports/
• India eyes 60 per cent share of global ship recycling business; higher GDP contribution, Economic
Times, 30 December 2019.
• Seaports In India 2021: Know About The Important Ports Which Stands As A Glory Of The Country!
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warehouse-zone_20181031.html
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HQUAKE
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• https://www.maritimegateway.com/mundra-port-shines-for-adani/
• https://www.adaniports.com/Ports-and-Terminals/Ennore-Terminal