KANDLA

Constitution & Brief History
Our Mission

To be the most economical modern Major Port, rendering cost effective services to our Customers.

The Key Objectives

• To provide our Clientele, efficient and economical Port services. To render value for money and value added services to our Customers,to their utmost satisfaction.
• To create facilities of international standards, and facilitate quicker turnaround of vessels. To maintain peaceful industrial relations by recognizing our work force as an asset and develop them to adopt to the changing Port scenario.
• To participate in social development by contributing our mite to the society at large
• To be Environment friendly

Geographic Location
Kandla port is situated in the the Kandla Creek and is 90 kms. from the mouth of the Gulf Of Kachch. It is a protected natural harbour.

Latitude: 23o 01′ N

Longitude: 70o 13′ E

Kandla, also Kandla Port or New Kandla is a seaport in Kutch District of Gujarat state in western India, near the city of Gandhidham. Located on the Gulf of Kutch, it is one of major ports on west coast. Kandla was constructed in the 1950s as the chief seaport serving western India, after the partition of India from Pakistan left the port of Karachi in Pakistan.

The Port of Kandla is located on the Gulf of Kutch on the northwestern coast of India some 256 nautical miles southeast of the Port of Karachi in Pakistan and over 430 nautical miles north-northwest of the Port of Mumbai (Bombay). It is the largest port of India by volume of cargo handled. Kandla history kandla Port Trust, India’s busiest major port in recent years, is gearing to add substantial cargo handling capacity with private sector participation. The west coast port handled 72.225 million tonnes of cargo in 2008-09, over 11 per cent more than 64.920 million tonnes handled in 2007-08.

Even as much of this growth has come from handling of crude oil imports, mainly for Essar Oil’s Vadinar refinery in Gujarat, the port is also taking measures to boost non-POL cargo. Last fiscal, POL traffic accounted for 63 per cent of the total cargo handled at Kandla Port, as against 59 per cent in 2007-08.

KPT is also moving towards building dedicated container handling capacity. At the moment, container trade is insignificant—138,000 teu in 2008-09, down from 165,000 teu in 2007-08.

There is currently one container terminal that is under private operatorship of ABG Heavy Industries Ltd. The port trust’s plans include setting up a dedicated container terminal with two berths (No.11 and No.12 of the port) on BOT basis. The Rs 330-crore project is expected to annually handle 0.6 million teu of container traffic.

The clean cargo and container berths form only a small part of KPT’s expansion plans through private enterprise. Other aspects include berthing facilities off Tekra (Tuna) that is expected to boost cargo by12 million tonnes, an offshore liquid terminal, bunkering facilities and a ship repair and building yard.

Kandla Port has shown buoyant growth in cargo handling in the recent past. In 2008-09, its total traffic grew by 13.6 per cent to reach an all-time high of 72.225 million tonnes. The port’s share in traffic handled by all major ports has risen steadily over the years, peaking at 13.6 per cent last year (see table). Earlier projections made by the port indicate an annual capacity handling target of 100 million tpa by 2012.