Lok Sabha Question No. 1060 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-06-27
Subject: Capacity Utilisation of Ports
Ministry: SHIPPING
Asked by: Umesh G. Jadhav

## GOVERNMENT  OF INDIA MINISTRY  OF SHIPPING

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1060

To BE ANSWERED oN 27th JUNE, 2019

## CAPACITY UTILISATION OF PORTS

- 1060- DR, UMESH G. JADHAV: Will the Minister of SHIPPING  be pleased  to state. crd cnc-fl{fi
- (a) whether some ports in the country are not fully utilized  to their capacities due to infrastructure restraints;
- if so, the details thereof along with the other reasons therefor;  and (b)
- the remedial  steps taken by the Government in this regard? (c)

## ANSWER

## MINISTER  OF STATE (INDEPENDENT  CHARGE) FOR SHIPPING (SHRI MANSUKH MANDAVIYA)

- (a)&(b) Ports handle around 90% of the EXIM trade by volume in the country. ln order to meet the challenges of ever increasing EXIM trade, it is the endeavour of the Government  to keep augmenting  the capacities of the major ports. The present installed capacity and its utilization  in the various major ports is annexed. The capacity as required for handling the existing cargoitraffic at ports is being fully utilized. The spare capacity  available at the ports would enable the ports to handle  growth in cargo/traffic  in near future. Reason  for spare capacity being available at some of the ports is not on account of infrastructure constrains but due to non generation  of expected cargo in the wake of global recession.  Environmental  restraints and ban on lron ore export have also lead to drastic reductron in lron ore cargo traffic at Mormugao  Port.
- Government is regularly monitoring the traffic and the trade at Major Ports. The Port Authorities  also explore the possibility of generating;  new cargoes so that the gap between  the traffic and capacity may be redur;ed. Similarly, Major Ports also organise  trade meets to attract traffic from their h inierla nd/reg  ion. To increase the volume  of cargo handling  in ports a number of steps have been taken to boost coastal  shipping. (c)

## Capacitv of Maior  ports and its utilization  during 2018-19

| Major Ports         | Capacity (MrPA)   | Traffic (MT)   | Capacity Utilisation (%)   |
|---------------------|-------------------|----------------|----------------------------|
| Deendayal           | 267.10            | 115.40         | 43.20                      |
| Mumbai              | 79.00             | 60 58          | 76.68                      |
| JNPT                | 138.87            | 70.70          | 50.91                      |
| Mormugao            | 63.40             | 17.68          | 27.89                      |
| Kamarajar(Ennore)   | 91.00             | 34.50          | 37.91                      |
| Chennai             | 134.00            | 53.01          | 39.56                      |
| V.O. Chidambaranar  | 111 .46           | 34.34          | 30.81                      |
| New Mangalore       | 98.00             | 42.54          | 43 41                      |
| Cochin              | 78.60             | 32.02          | 40.74                      |
| Visakhapatnam       | 131.09            | 65.30          | 49.81                      |
| Paradip             | 239.00            | 109.27         | 45.72                      |
| Kolkata Dock System | 31.57             | 18.50          | 58.60                      |
| Haldia Dock Complex | 51.00             | 45.21          | 88.65                      |
| Overall:            | 1514.09           | 699.05         | 46.17                      |