PARADIP PORT

Paradip Port is the deepest inner harbour port in the country. The hinterland of the abounds in minerals and metals and other resources spread over the State of Orissa, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal.
The Port is well connected with its hinterland with broad-gauge railway system the south-eastern railways and is also served by the National Highway No. 5A

Location

Paradip Port is situated at a Latitude 20o15’ – 55.44" North and Longitude 86o40’ – 34.62" East. It is 210 nautical miles south of Calcutta and 260 nautical miles north of Visakhapatnam.

Port Facilities

Berthing particulars:

The fertilizer berth is designed as the captive berth for Paradeep Phosphates Ltd., to handle bulk and liquid cargo by fully mechanised means.

The iron ore berth has a jetty width of 12.5 mtrs. Maximum LOA of vessels accepted is 260 mtrs. and maximum beam of vessels accepted is 40 mtrs. Rated capacity of the plant 2500 mt/hr. There are two rotary type wagon tipplers of 2500 mt/hr. capacity and each one can tipple 25 wagon/hr. Annual throughput of the plant 4 million tonnes with average daily loading 20,000 tonnes.

The berth is now being used for mechanical loading of iron ore and thermal coal. The berth can also be used for bulk loading/unloading of other ores by ship gears.

Cargo/Container Handling:

The cargo berths are multipurpose in nature and generally used by vessels for loading of thermal coal, chrome ore, manganese ore, charge chrome, ferro chrome, ferro manganese steel coils and for unloading of coking coal, hard coke, limestone, foodgrains, fertiliser, D.B.M., steel billets, scraps, etc. The port also offers LASH operation.

Facilities also exist for handling limited number of containers. The stack-yard close to the cargo berth can accommodate a good number of containers. The containers are to be discharged by the ship’s own cranes/derricks or by wharf cranes on the berth. There are four wharf cranes of 13.2 mt. capacity each.

Mooring Berth:

There is a mooring berth near the fertiliser berth. Vessels upto 200m LOA and upto 11.00 mtr. draught can be moored in this berth.

Slipway

A 500 tonne slipway is available for repair and maintenance of smaller crafts.

Wet Basin

A wet basin for port craft is available close to the shipway. There is a well equipped central workshop for repair and maintenance of port equipment.

Storage

There are five transit sheds and one fertiliser shed available in the cargo berth area. Besides, these sheds, there are four warehouses and open storage facilities available inside the port.

i) Transit shed

	Area in Sq. mtr	Capacity in MTs
Transit Shed No. I	5700	14,000
Transit Shed No.II	1440	3,600
Transit Shed No.III	3100	6,700
Transit Shed No.IV	2400	6,000
Fertiliser Shed(open)	2640	6,600

ii)Warehouses

	Dimension in mtr.	Capacity in MTs.
Warehouse No. I	61x12	1800
Warehouse No. II	61x12	1800
Warehouse No. III	91x18	4000
Warehouse No. IV	140x41.9	14000

iii) Open Stackyards

At present 2,20,300 sq. mtrs of open stacking area is available inside the port for storage of more than 13 lakh tonnes of different cargoes. These stackyards are connected with rail and road. Additional stackyard of over 1,00,000 sq.mtrs. are under construction.

Equipment:

The port has at present the following equipment for efficient and smooth loading/unloading operations. 

Future Plans

• To cope up with the buoyant traffic, a no. of capacity yielding developmental works have been taken up by the Port. A Rs. 587 crores ADB aided project for handling 20 million tonnes of thermal coal per annum is in progress. This includes construction of two berths with mechanised loading facilities and receipt, unloading and stacking of coal through bottom discharge type of wagons. The project is scheduled to be completed by December, 2000.
• The work order for construction of three general cargo berths with a capacity of three million tonnes have already been awarded and the progress are on schedule to be completed by June, 2000.
• Construction of an exclusive oil jetty to handle about 6 to 8 million tonnes of POL products and crude in tankers of 85,000 DWT size is in progress and scheduled to be completed by December, 2000. The facilities can be augmented to handle tankers of 150,000 DWT size.
• The no. of berths in the Port will go up from 8 to 14 with the completion of the above projects and the capacity will increase from 11.185 million tonnes to 40.185 million tonnes by the end of 2000.

Expression of interest has been received recently from 7 reputed firms for setting up a clean cargo berth on BOT basis. A feasibility study will be taken by the Port now based on which detailed offers will be invited through an open tender. A feasibility study on container handling has been done by CONCOR showing potential for regular container handling through this Port. A detailed traffic assessment study undertaken by TCS will be submitted by them shortly. The Port will then invite offers from interested parties for setting up required container and other cargo handling facilities.

Traffic Handled

Commoditywise Imports and Exports at Paradip Port during 1996-97 to 1999-2000 (April to Spet.'99)