CALCUTTA PORT

THE Calcutta Port’s total array can be grouped into five locational sets. These are river moorings in Kidderpore Dock (KPD) and Netaji Subhas Dock (NSD) in Calcutta, Petroleum Wharf at Baj Baj, Haldia Dock Complex (HDC) and Sagar Anchorage. Of these, the first three are grouped under the nomenclature of Calcutta Dock System (CDS). The Calcutta Dock System is situated on the left bank of the river Hooghly, 145 kilometres above the entrance to the river from the estuary off Sagar Island in the Bay of Bengal. The pilotage, however, extends from Gasper/Sagar Roads. The total pilotage distance is 166 kilometres.

About Haldia Dock Complex

Haldia Dock Complex (HDC) is about 6 hours away from the Calcutta Port’s pilotage station at Sandheads. It comprises the Port facilities and also a part of the river Haldi, starting from its entrance to the river Hooghly, its shores within 45.7 metres of the High Water Mark at Spring Tides is also covered within the Port limits. NH 41 links Haldia with NH 6 connecting Chennai, Mumbai and the rest of the country. There is also a State Highway running parallel to NH 41 which also connects Haldia with network of National Highways. Through railways HDC is connected immediately to South Eastern Railway.

Location Of Calcutta Port

Calcutta Port - Calcutta Dock System is situated at Latitude 22032’53" North and Longitude 88o18’5"East.

Location Of Haldia Dock Complex

Haldia Dock Complex is situated 130km. from pilotage situation at Sandheads and at a Latitude of 22o02’N and Longitude - 88o06’E.

Facilities Of Calcutta Port

The Port’s (CDS) array of facilities can be grouped into three segments:

a) KPD : 18 berths + 6 Buoy Mrgs. + 3 Dry Docks

b) NSD : 10 berths + 2 Buoy Mrgs. + 2 Dry Docks

c) Baj Baj River Mrgs.: consisting of 6 Petroleum Wharves.

Navigational Aids:

To facilitate the pilotage appropriate navigational aids have been provided throughout the passage. At present the following aids are available:

1. Light house
2. Light vessels
3. Automatic tide gauges
4. Semaphores
5. River marks
6. Wireless/VHF network
7. Syldis chain system
8. vessel Traffic Management System (VTMS)

Berthing Particulars at CDS:

The following are the dockwise details of berths storage area & handling equipments in use at CDS:

K. P. Dock I

K. P. Dock II

Facilities Of Haldia Dock Complex

Berthing and Cargo Handling Facilities:

The Dock Complex contains ten berths of which 8 berths are located inside the impounded dock. Two oil jetties are located on the river. The main features of different berths of Haldia Dock Complex are:-

a) Haldia Dock : 11 dock berths

b) Haldia Oil Jetties : 2 River berths

c) Haldia Barge Jetties : 2 River Oil Jetties for barges.

d) Haldia anchorage for LASH vessels

Berth No. 1 - Satish Samanta Oil Jetty:
A riverine oil jetty commissioned during 1968 for handling crude and POL products. Liquid ammonia is also handled at this berth. There are direct pipeline connections from this berth to the IOC Refinery and Hindustan Fertilizer Corporation Ltd.,

Berth No. 2 - 2nd Oil Jetty
A riverine oil jetty commissioned in 1991, having modern and sophisticated facilities for handling crude & POL Products. The jetty can handle tankers upto 1,50,000 DWT. There are direct pipeline connections from the berth to the IOC Refinery.

Berth No. 3
This berth has two 1500 TPH wagon tipplers and two stock pile conveyors, each having two stacker-cum-reclaimers linked to two Shuttle Boom type ship loaders. The loading capacity of each loader is 3000 TPH. Originally designed for handling iron ore the handling system including the shiploaders are being modified to handle thermal coal exports.

Facilities are also available at this berth for handling non-dangerous POL Products. This jetty is also utilised for handling various types of dry bulk and break bulk cargo.

Berth No. 4
This berth is designed for shipping thermal coal with the help of mechanised loading system. It has two 1500 TPH Shuttle Boom type shiploaders for loading thermal coal. Besides, there are two 1500 TPH wagon tipplers, two stock pile conveyors each having one stacker-cum-reclaimer which are linked to the ship loaders.

Berth No. 5
This berth is equipped with two grab unloaders each having unloading capacity of 700 TPH. There are direct conveyor connections from this berth to the various storage sheds, bagging and stitching plants etc.
CPT has signed an MOU for this berth with Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL), in terms of which SAIL will have the right to use this berth for handling their imported coking coal traffic for 330 days in a year excepting for 12 vessels on account of Hindustan Lever Limited in a year, for 10 years, extendable for a further period of 5 years on mutual consent.

Berth No. 6 & 7
These two berths are located on each side of the Finger Jetty. Conventional handling of bulk and break bulk cargo are undertaken at these berths with the help of vessels' own gears. Besides, these berths have facilities for pipeline discharge of different liquid bulk cargo such as Phosphoric Acid, Carbon Black Feed Stock, Edible Oil, Molasses etc.

Berth No. 8
This berth is mainly utilised for handling coking coal by semi mechanical means by ship's own gears. General and other dry bulk cargo are also handled at this berth. CPT has also signed an MOU with TISCO in terms of which TISCO will have the right to use this berth for handling their imports coking coal, pig iron, steel, scrap traffic and export of various steel materials, for 330 days in a year for 10 years, extendable for a further period of 5 years on mutual consent.

Berth No. 9
This is a multipurpose berth having full-fledged handling facilities. At present containers are handled at the quay face ship's gears. The Container Parking Yard is served by one 30 Trail mounted gantry crane for stacking of containers at the parking yard.
About 1600 containers can be stacked at a time at the Container Parking Yard of HDC. This berth has a covered storage shed of floor area of 1,00,000 sq.ft.

Mobile equipment available at Berth No. 8 & 9
Berth Nos. 8 & 9 have a continuous quay head and are served by 3 mobile cranes, 5 tractor-trailers, 7 forklifts, 3 tractors and 8 trailers for various cargo handling operations. Besides, 4 bull dozers and 12 pay loaders are also available for on board operations of coking coal and other bulk cargo vessels. Moreover, cargo handling equipment from private agencies are also available.

Berth No. 10
This berth was commissioned on 30/8/95 to handle break bulk, dry bulk and containerised cargo. It has a back-up area of about 11,000 sq.mtrs. This berth has a continuous quay face along with berth No. 8 & 9.

Berth No. 11
This berth will be used for handling dry bulk, break bulk and containerised traffic.

Dimensions of Largest Vessel Acceptable:

Anchorages:
Diamond Harbour 190m

SAGAR Sandheads No length restrictions.

Flotilla:
There are 7 tugs and 3 mooring boats available at Haldia Dock Complex.

Storage Capacity at NSD

Facilities available at Petroleum Wharves at Baj Baj:

At Baj Baj, the Port has leased out land to oil companies for storage of petroleum products and vegetable oil and various other liquids.

Storage capacities at Baj Baj CPT Flotilla:

The Port Maintains:

Container Terminal Facilities at Calcutta Port

To keep pace with the fast-changing global technology with accent on container handling, Calcutta Port was the first in the country to develop modern container handling facilities. A container terminal, with an equipment mix of quay cranes, rail mounted gantry cranes, tractors/trailers and a container freight station was commissioned at Haldia Dock Complex in 1977.

The annual throughput of the modern computerised container terminal at 7 Netaji Subhas Dock of Calcutta Dock System is about which is expected to grow this year. 41,000 TEUs. The terminal has stacking area of 50,000 sq.mts. along with a CFS measuring 9,000 sq.mts. having 1284 ground slots with 3.5 stack high. The terminal is served by modern container handling equipment mix including three rubber tyred gantry cranes, 22 heavy duty tractors, 14 trailors of 40 ft length, 6 trailors of 20 ft length, 2 immediately forklifts of 8 tonne capacity for handling empty containers, 1 top lift truck of 35 tonne capacity, 2 reach stackers of 45 tonne capacity and reefer facilities of 144 TEUs. The terminal has a on-line computer sys- tem. To boost up the facilities, another container berth at NSD serving the container terminal has been now commercially open to cope with the increasing volume of container traffic.

Container Handling Facilities:

* contiguous to 7 NSD with common book-up & CFS facilities

** Other facilities are common with those of 5 NSD

Facilities for Handling Heavy Lifts:

There are heavy lift yards at KPD and NSD. The heavy lift yard at KPD is served by a 15 tonne Yard Crane. In NSD the heavy lift yard at 1 NSD is served by a 200 tonne Hammer Head Crane. The 200 tonne crane at 1 NSD is the highest capacity shore based crane in India. The Bull Nose at NSD is another heavy lift yard where heavy lifts are off-loaded from lighters and loaded into wagons, etc. by two crawler mounted cranes. There are altogether six 20 tonne capacity crawler mounted cranes for handling heavy lifts/containers. Three self propelled (full slewing and derricking type) floating cranes available for handling heavy lifts from and into ships.

Mobile Cargo Handling Equipment:

Forklift Trucks

These are used for quay transfer and delivery operations and also for stuffing/destuffing containers. The range includes low-mast forklifts for going inside the container.

There are 53 Forklifts, of which 21 are of 3 tonne capacity and 32 of 2 tonne capacity.

Mobile Cranes

There are 2 nos. 3.5 tonne capacity mobile cranes, 15 nos. 6 tonne mobile cranes, 12 nos. 10 tonne mobile cranes, 3 nos. 13 tonne mobile cranes, 2 nos. 15 tonne and 6 nos. 30 tonne crawler cranes. These are mainly utilised for handling rails, structurals, cases, pipes, plates, containers, logs and heavy lifts during quay transfer, wagon-loading and delivery operations.

Under special circumstances, the equipment is also made available to the users on hire within the dock premises.

Inland Waterways (Calcutta Dock System)

Substantial portion of the CDS traffic is transported by the inland waterways system. About 400 private barges carry cargo, discharged from ships or export cargo tendered for shipment.

The main commodities which are carried by barges are:

i) Import Fertiliser, dal, log, general merchandise including heavy lifts. The port provides facilities for unloading of the barges inside the docks and at nominated points of the inland vessels wharves.

ii) Export Jute and Jute products including gunnies, carpet backing cloth, etc. originating from the jute mills located along the river.

A regular IWT service is maintained by Central Inland Water Transport Corporation having 9 routes linking CDS and HDC with North Eastern States and Upper India. With further opening of inland waterways, the port will be accessible by river upto Allahabad with a number of stations along the route. Movement by barges to and from Bangladesh has also started.

Container Terminal Facilities at Haldia

1. Berth Nos. 9, 10 & 11
2. Continuous Quay Face : to accommodate 3 or more container vessels
3. Apron width: 37m
4. Ground Slot Capacity: 1600 TEUs.
5. Equipments: 30 tonnes Transtainer Crane (RMG), Forklifts, Tractor-trailers, Top-lift trucks, Reach stacker
6. Direct Broad Gauge railway access to container parking yard.
7. Extensive Cargo Back-up area behind Berth No. 9 of about 23.95 lakh sq.ft. inclusive of a covered transit shed of 1 lakh sq.ft.
8. Backup area of 22,000 sq.m. behind Berth Nos. 10 & 11
9. Priority Berthing facilities: Done by Port labour. stuffing/de-stuffing

Inland Waterways:

At present, the inland waterway network is utilised for transportation of POL products between Haldia and Calcutta / Baj Baj, movement of containers between Calcutta and Haldia and for despatch of fertiliser etc. by barges from Haldia to up-country destinations. The inland waterways connection from Haldia has also been utilised for transportation between Haldia and North Eastern States as well as Bangladesh. It is envisaged that with the creation of additional facilities, upcountry movement by this mode of transportation would significantly increase.

Future Plans/Privatisation of Calcutta Port

Calcutta Port has the rare advantage of getting highest draft (around 45 mtrs) by introducing successful lighterage operations at Sandheads from November 1998 to of March 1999, which is a revolutionary achievement in the 129 year history of Calcutta Port. Keeping this success in view, Calcutta Port Trust is interested in developing Floating Storage Tanker (FST) or Floating Storage Operations (FSO) system and accordingly various possibilities are being explored.
Balmer Lawrie & Co. and Southern LPG Ltd. are planning to set up LPG terminals at Roychawk. The operation is expected to commence from 2001.
Petrofarms Ltd. plans to operate a LPG handling terminal. This LPG handling terminal which is likely to start by 2001 would initially handle about 25,000 tonnes of LPG per annum.

Future Plans/Privatisation of Haldia

The additional multi-purpose berth No. 4A at Haldia Dock Complex estimated to cost around Rs. 40 crore will be designed to handle Panamax vessels which will ultimately handle 1.5 million tonnes of dry bulk cargo per annum. Techno-economic feasibility study and detailed engineering studies have been initiated to set up 15 new berths in the second dock arm and second lock entrance at Haldia Dock Complex at an estimated cost of about Rs. 1,500 crore. Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. (IOCL) commissioned the Haldia - Barauni Crude Pipeline in February, 1999 for trnasporting crude from oil jetties of Haldia Dock Complex to the refinery of IOCL at Barauni. Initially 4.2 million tonnes of crude will be transported to Barauni per annum through this pipeline. Since Haldia Petro Chemical Complex is to be commissioned shortly, Hindustan Petroleum Ltd. (HPL) is likely to handle about 1.3 million tonnes of cargo including naptha and various chemicals. Calcutta Port Trust has already given clearance to HPL to install unloading arms at 1st oil jetty and laying of pipeline from the jetty to its site. As the PTA plant by MCC is likely to be commissioned shortly, MCC will import about 2,50,000 tonnes of paraxylene as raw material for the plant through Haldia Dock Complex. It will also export its product in tankers through Haldia Dock Complex. HLCL has embarked on a major expansion of its fertilizer complex at Haldia which is scheduled to be completed soon. Accordingly HLCL will handle about 1.2 million tonnes of various cargo through Haldia Dock Complex comprising phosphoric acid, liquid ammonia, sulphur, rock phosphate, etc. LPG storage tanks are being set up by IOCL at Haldia for storage of about 6 lakh tonnes of LPG per annum after importing the same through Haldia Dock Complex.

Traffic Handled at Calcutta Port (CDS)

Commoditywise Imports and Exports at Calcutta Port (CDS) during 1996-97 to 1998-99

Traffic Handled at Haldia Dock Complex

Commoditywise Imports and Exports at Haldia Dock Complex during 1996-98 to 1998-99