page_title: Mundra Port
section_title: Port layout and infrastructure
hierarchical_section_title: Mundra Port / Port layout and infrastructure
caption_attribution_description: English: Mundra port
context_page_description: Mundra Port is the largest private port of India located on the north shores of the Gulf of Kutch near Mundra, Kutch district, Gujarat. Formerly operated by Mundra Port and Special Economic Zone Limited owned by Adani Group, it was later expanded into Adani Ports & SEZ Limited managing several ports.
  In 2013–2014, Mundra Port handled 10 crore tonnes of cargo, becoming the first Indian port to do so. It also became India's biggest port by cargo handled.
context_section_description: The port has a deep draft that facilitates large vessels including fully laden capsize vessels to dock alongside its berth.
  Mundra Port has commodity-specific storage areas. The Port has 2,25,000 sq. metres of closed godowns and 3,150,000 sq. metres of open storage yards for storage of import or export cargo within the port premises. The Liquid Terminal at ASPEZ consists of 97 tanks of different sizes and attributes with a total storage capacity of 4,25,000 kilolitres for storage of various liquid commodities.
  Mundra Port has also developed adequate infrastructure for evacuation of cargo keeping in mind the concept of the inverted funnel. According to the concept, the capacity of a port’s evacuation infrastructure should be more that it’s marine infrastructure.
  Mundra Port has developed commodity-specific infrastructure for handling, storage and evacuation of cargo. The Fertilizer Cargo Complex (FCC) is a fertiliser handling facility.  The FCC has 2 operational lines with 44 bagging machines with a capacity to bag 660 nos. of 50-kg bags per minute and a capacity to load and evacuate 8–10 rakes per day i.e. 25,600 tonnes per day.
  The steel yard is a steel storage area spread over 1,20,000 sq metres and consists of equipment for handling steel cargo. The steel yard is equipped with 8 Goliath cranes and 2 mobiles cranes with vacuum lift attachments, 6 forklifts with multiple attachments to handle steel coils, slabs and plates, 1 reach stacker and 60 trailers for internal transportation.
  Besides the port area there is a large land area for development. A part of this area is now notified and functional SEZ which is now largest port based Multi product SEZ of the country. This SEZ is suited to service the hinterland of north and northwest India which account for two-third of India’s GDP. The area is connected with National road, rail and pipeline network. Being spread over an area of 84 km² it includes port, container terminals. Rail, Airport, Container freight station, storage tanks.
  Mundra Port is being developed as a business location for sectors like Light and Heavy Engineering, Project cargo, Auto and Auto Component, Textiles and Apparel, Pharmaceuticals Dyes and Specialty chemical, Agriproduct processing, Plastic processing, Timber and Furniture, Global trading, Metal and Mineral etc.
  It claims to have considerable distance advantage over other ports to most destinations in Rajasthan, Haryana, Punjab, Delhi-NCR, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand.
caption: Port View from Tug berth side
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