29-06-2012, 03:17 PM
50 different ports in the world
1)Port of Chennai:- Formerly known as Madras, the Port of Chennai is called by many the "Gateway to South India." Located on India's southern Coromandel Coast off the Bay of Bengal, the Port of Chennai is about 565 kilometers northeast of the Port of Cochin and some one thousand kilometers southeast of the Port of Mumbai. The Chennai Port Trust is the port authority for the Port of Chennai, which is the second busiest port in India. Over 125 years old, the Port of Chennai was important to travelers before it became an important commercial and container port. The artificial port contains 26 berths that handle containers as well as liquid and dry bulk and breakbulk cargoes. The approach channel to the Port of Chennai is 6700 meters long, and the turning basin is 560 meters.
2)Navashiva:- Located just six nautical miles east of the Port of Mumbai across the Thane Creek, the Port of Nhava Sheva, also known as Jawaharlal Nehru Port, was created to ease the pressure of Mumbai's increasing cargo volumes. The Port of Nhava Sheva is the busiest port in India and handles almost half of the country's maritime trade.
With immediate access to Mumbai and its hinterland, as well as most of North India, the Port of Nhava Sheva handles a wide range of exports that include textile-related products like embroidery machines, knitted t-shirts, cotton shirts, carpets, and sporting goods. The Port of Nhava Sheva imports chemicals, plastics, machinery, aluminum and other non-ferrous metals, and vegetable oils. In the 2007-2008 shipping season, the Port of Nhava Sheva handled a total of 57.3 million tons of cargo, including 50.6 million tons of containerized cargo in over 4 million TEUs, 5.9 million tons of liquid bulk cargo, 812.8 million tons of dry bulk cargo (cement), and 13 thousand tons of breakbulk cargoes. More than 40% of the Port of Nhava Sheva's up-country cargo goes to container freight stations for carting before being transported to the Port of Nhava Sheva for loading onto vessels. Thirteen container freight stations with capacity for a total of 898 thousand TEUs cover a combined total of 1.2 million square meters. The Continental Warehousing Corporation (Nhava Sheva) Limited covers over 14 hectares and has three covered warehouses with capacity for 10- to 12-thousand TEUs per month. In addition, nine planned container freight stations will add a total of 284.6 thousand square meters and additional capacity for 426.5 thousand TEUs per year.
3)Port of Cochin:- The Port of Cochin (also called Kochi) is an important seaport on the Arabian Sea in southwest India's Kerala State. Located about 565 kilometers southwest of the Port of Chennai and about 930 kilometers south-southeast of the Port of Mumbai, this deep-water harbor and port has road, rail, air, and water connections with the region's hinterlands and other major Indian cities. In 2001, the Port of Cochin was home to over 513 thousand people, and some 1.5 million live in the urban area today.
The Port of Cochin boasts a system of inland waterways through beautiful lagoons and backwaters that parallel the coastline and provide easy and inexpensive transportation that encourages trade. The 21st Century brought an era of economic growth to the Port of Cochin, with growing information technology, international trade, and tourism industries. Like other growing cities in the region, the Port of Cochin struggles with rapid population growth, environmental pollution, and seriously congested traffic. Having attracted migrants over centuries, the Port of Cochin is a cultural melting pot and a diverse city with a rich history and a unique mix of traditional and contemporary life.
4)Port of Mumbai:- The Port of Mumbai (formerly Bombay) is a deep natural harbor on India's northwest coast just six nautical miles west of the Jawaharlal Nehru Port at Nhava Sheva and some 432 nautical miles south-southeast of the Port of Kandla. One of the world's largest municipalities, with its suburbs of Navi Mumbai and Thane, the Port of Mumbai's metropolitan area of some 19 million people is the fifth most populous in the world. In the 2007-2008 shipping year, the Port of Mumbai handled a total of over 57 million tons of cargo, including 32.4 million tons of imports and 24.7 million tons of exports. The Port of Mumbai handled 1.4 million tons of containerized cargo in 117.6 thousand TEUs.
Imported cargoes through the Port of Mumbai were dominated by crude oil (12.7 million tons), stream cargo (6.4 million tons), miscellaneous cargoes (4.2 million tons), POL products (3.4 million tons), and iron and steel 2.8 million tons). Other imports included bulk chemicals, containers, edible oils, rock phosphate, fertilizers, and sulfur. Containerized imports of 627.3 thousand tons were in 71.7 thousand TEUs.