Kandla port (India) handled 50 mt
Kandla port, the only Central Government-owned port in State has emerged the fourth major port this year after crossing the 50 million-tonne mark in handling cargo. The other ports include Kolkata, Haldia, Vishakhapatnam and Chennai. There were only two major ports to cross the 50 NT mark.
“Our throughput so far has been 50.79 million tonnes, which includes both exports and imports, liquid and dry. We have also crossed the target for the current financial year set by the government well before it closes in a fortnight. Seeing the flow of cargo, we will handle an additional two million tonnes by the end of the year,” H C Venkatesh, traffic manager of KPT said on Wednesday. Talking about this landmark achievement he said, “This happened as we handled much more than government declared as our capacity. In fact, we have been known for our highest berth occupancy in the country and we now plan to build four more dry cargo jetties,” he said. Stating the ratio of both import and export cargos being almost the same, Venkatesh said the increase was recorded mainly in handling petroleum, oil, lubricant (POL) products, fertilizers and food grains. Kandla handled imports of 11 lakh tonnes of wheat cargo which was challenging as it was time bound. He said after handling one wheat ship, the import for the current year will be over and in all 24 wheat ships were handled. Another key and time bound cargo was fertilizers and its handling was to the tune of 2 million tonnes.
“The construction of our first barge jetty at Tuna, some 20 km from Kandla is over and will be operational for handling an additional two million tonnes of cargo from the new financial year next month. The ABG Kandla International Container Terminal started functioning from March 10 on the port’s designated berth number 11 where the private operator was handling two container vessels a day,’’ Vekatesh said.
As for Kandla’s satellite oil port at Vadinar in Jamnagar district, it too has done well in handling imported crude for refineries in Northern India. “Our off-shore oil terminal (OOT) Vadinar has equalled the main port in handling oil cargo and so far we have handled 24.5 million tonnes cargo which includes both imported crude and lighterage cargo, Dr G S Rao, chief operational manager and head of of OOT Vadinar said.
He further said the board of trustees of Kandla port recently approved a proposal for constructing four dry cargo berths at Vadinar for dry cargo. He also said Essar oil, which formally commissioned its oil refinery near the port, had given a good account of itself by handling 2.8 million tonnes of imported crude and finished products for export from Vadinar in the past six months.
“Our throughput so far has been 50.79 million tonnes, which includes both exports and imports, liquid and dry. We have also crossed the target for the current financial year set by the government well before it closes in a fortnight. Seeing the flow of cargo, we will handle an additional two million tonnes by the end of the year,” H C Venkatesh, traffic manager of KPT said on Wednesday. Talking about this landmark achievement he said, “This happened as we handled much more than government declared as our capacity. In fact, we have been known for our highest berth occupancy in the country and we now plan to build four more dry cargo jetties,” he said. Stating the ratio of both import and export cargos being almost the same, Venkatesh said the increase was recorded mainly in handling petroleum, oil, lubricant (POL) products, fertilizers and food grains. Kandla handled imports of 11 lakh tonnes of wheat cargo which was challenging as it was time bound. He said after handling one wheat ship, the import for the current year will be over and in all 24 wheat ships were handled. Another key and time bound cargo was fertilizers and its handling was to the tune of 2 million tonnes.
“The construction of our first barge jetty at Tuna, some 20 km from Kandla is over and will be operational for handling an additional two million tonnes of cargo from the new financial year next month. The ABG Kandla International Container Terminal started functioning from March 10 on the port’s designated berth number 11 where the private operator was handling two container vessels a day,’’ Vekatesh said.
As for Kandla’s satellite oil port at Vadinar in Jamnagar district, it too has done well in handling imported crude for refineries in Northern India. “Our off-shore oil terminal (OOT) Vadinar has equalled the main port in handling oil cargo and so far we have handled 24.5 million tonnes cargo which includes both imported crude and lighterage cargo, Dr G S Rao, chief operational manager and head of of OOT Vadinar said.
He further said the board of trustees of Kandla port recently approved a proposal for constructing four dry cargo berths at Vadinar for dry cargo. He also said Essar oil, which formally commissioned its oil refinery near the port, had given a good account of itself by handling 2.8 million tonnes of imported crude and finished products for export from Vadinar in the past six months.