Lok Sabha Question No. 808 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2017-07-20
Subject: Profit of Major Ports
Ministry: SHIPPING
Asked by: RAM KUMAR SHARMA KUSHWAHA

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF SHIPPING

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.808 TO BE ANSWERED ON 20 th JULY, 2017 PROFIT OF MAJOR PORTS

## †808.   SHRI RAM KUMAR SHARMA:

Will the Minister of SHIPPING be pleased to state:

- (a) whether  the amount of profit of Major Ports has almost doubled during the last three years and the current year in the country;
- (b) if so, the details thereof along with the total amount of profit earned during the said period, year-wise; and
- (c) the main reasons for the said increase in profit?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF SHIPPING (SHRI PON. RADHAKRISHNAN)

(a)to(c) Port-wise details of Operating Surplus at Major Ports from 2013-14 to 2016-17 are as under:

| S No   | Name of the Port               | Operating Surplus ( Rs. in crores)   | Operating Surplus ( Rs. in crores)   | Operating Surplus ( Rs. in crores)   | Operating Surplus ( Rs. in crores)   |
|--------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------------|--------------------------------------|--------------------------------------|--------------------------------------|
| S No   | Name of the Port               | 2013-14                              | 2014-15                              | 2015-16                              | 2016-17*                             |
| 1      | Kolkata                        | 277.05                               | 384.70                               | 462.79                               | 523.34                               |
| 2      | Paradip                        | 364.95                               | 418.40                               | 448.48                               | 537.25                               |
| 3      | Visakhapatnam                  | 223.28                               | 316.01                               | 368.55                               | 395.28                               |
| 4      | Kamarajar (Ennore)             | 349.11                               | 471.94                               | 494.90                               | 544.97                               |
| 5      | Chennai                        | 6.16                                 | 133.94                               | 196.50                               | 219.88                               |
| 6      | V.O. Chidambaranar (Tuticorin) | 145.67                               | 237.80                               | 311.45                               | 352.45                               |
| 7      | Cochin                         | -20.25                               | 19.55                                | 70.90                                | 127.53                               |
| 8      | New Mangalore                  | 129.36                               | 144.91                               | 116.80                               | 170.96                               |
| 9      | Mormugao                       | -29.61                               | 39.80                                | 103.62                               | 168.90                               |
| 10     | Mumbai                         | 195.03                               | 331.68                               | 402.49                               | 366.78                               |
| 11     | JNPT                           | 734.26                               | 836.57                               | 971.98                               | 889.41                               |
| 12     | Kandla                         | 143.89                               | 264.10                               | 360.55                               | 622.68                               |
|        | Overall:                       | 2518.90                              | 3599.40                              | 4309.01                              | 4919.43                              |

## (*)  Provisional

Increase in operating surplus has been due to improvement in operational efficiency of major ports on account of  modernization, mechanization, acquisition and use of latest  technology,  deepening  of  drafts  to  handle  large  vessels  etc  be  addition,  a study on benchmarking of efficiency and productivity of major ports to international levels has been carried out to improve the operations and efficiency of  the  major  ports.  The  study  has  identified  a  total  of  106  port  wise  action points/initiatives  of  which  81  initiatives  have  already  been  completed.  These implemented initiatives have also resulted in improved efficiency and additional operating surplus.

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