|
| Lattitude |
20°-15'-55.44"
North |
| Longitude |
86°-40'-34.62"
East |
210
Nautical miles south of Calcutta and 260 nautical miles north
of Vishakhapatnam.
| Range |
50 Kms. |
| Channels |
16 & 12 |
| Maximum Temperature |
41.4°C |
| Minimum Temperature |
8.9°C |
| Annual rainfall(Ave.) |
1480 nm |
| Average wave Height |
1.5 meters to 2.5 meters |
| Maximum wave Height |
5.30 meters |
| Minimum Tide |
0.40 meters |
| Maximum Tide |
3.50 meters |
| Rail |
The Port is
connected with Board Guage Railway System of the South
Eastern Railway. |
| Road |
The Port is served
by National highway No. 5-A. |
Pilotage
is compulsory. ETA to be given to harbour Master not less than
24 ghours before arrival. Pilot boards vessel outside the
breakwater SE of Rairway Buoy. No night navigation facilities
available.
The
Port has an artifical lagoon type harbour protected by two
rubble mound "Break waters" and approached by the
dredged channel. The North break-water is 538 meters long on
the North Eastern side of the Port and the south break-water is
1217 meters long on the South Eastern side.
| APPROACH CHANNEL |
ENTERANCE CHANNEL |
TURNING BASIN |
| Length |
2020
meters |
Length |
500.00
meters |
Diameter |
520
meters |
| Width |
190
meters |
Width |
160.00
meters |
|
|
| Depth |
12.90
meters |
Depth |
12.90
meters |
|
|
| 0.5
miles radius from 1.8 miles south of south breakwater. |
| Center
Point- Latitude: 20° 13' 48" N, Longitude: 86°42'
36"E |
| Anchorage
Position for vessels waiting for Pilot -Latitude : 20° 14'
52" Long. 86° 42' 19.20 E |
| The
nature of bottom at anchorage is sand and silt and the
holding ground is good. |
| No
shelter available. Depth 14 mtrs. Extremely of channels are
marked with leading lights. |
| BERTHS
Iron Ore Berth |
|
| Jetty
Length |
155 meters |
| Jetty
Width |
1.75 meters |
| Distance
fron Dolphin to Dolphin |
320 meters |
| LOA |
230 meters |
| Beam |
40 meters |
| Draft |
13.20 meters |
| |
LOA |
Draft |
| First
Cargo Berth E.Q.-I |
291 meters |
11.50 meters |
| Second
Cargo Berth E.Q.-II |
205 meters |
11.50 meters |
| Third
Cargo Berth E.Q.-III |
200 meters |
11.50 meters |
| South
Quay Shorrt Arm |
265 meters |
12.50 meters |
| Fertilizer
Berth Long Arm |
252 meters |
13.00 meters |
| Fertilizer
Berth Shot Arm |
62 meters |
12.00 meters |
This
fertilizer berth is designed as the captive berth for M/s.
Paradeep Phosphates Ltd., to handle bulk and liquid cargo by
fully mechanised means.
The
stack yard close to cargo berth can accomodate Containers. The
containers are to be discharged by the ship's own
cranes/derricks or by the wharf cranes on the berths. There
are four wharf cranes of a capacity of 13.2 Mt each.
| Rated Capacity of
the Plant |
2500 MT/Hr. |
| No. of Bucket wheel
Reclaimers |
4 |
| Rated Capacity of
Reclaimers |
1250 Mt/Hr., 1500
MT/Hr., 2000 MT/Hr., 2500 MT/Hr. |
| Two Rotatry type
wagon Tipplers |
2500 MT/Hr. |
| Capacity each one
can tipple |
25 Wagons/Hr. |
| Annual throughput of
the Plant |
4 million Tons |
| Average daily
loading |
20000 Tons |
The
berth can be used for bulk loading/unloading of other ores by
ship gears and transhipments of petroleum products when there
is no iron ore vessel for loading.
These
cargo berths are multi purpose in nature and generally used by
vessels for loading of Thermal Coal, Chrome Ore, Manganese
Ore, Charge Chrome, Ferro Chrome, Ferro Manganese Steel
Coilsand for unloading of coking coal, hard coke, limestone,
food-grains, fertilizer, D.B.M. steel billets, scraps etc.
Facilities
also exists for handling limited number of containers. The
Stack-Yard close to cargo Berth can accomodate 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 M.T. capacity each.
The
Port Authorities plan to encourage handling of containers to
cater to the needs of containers to the needs of
exporters/importers located in the Port's hinterland. The
container handling facilities at the Port are proposed to be
privatised. The berth for handling container vessel and
necessary space for container handling yard and CFS will be
provided by the Port.
| Capacity |
No. |
|
| Wharf Crane |
13.2
MT |
4 |
| Mobile Crane |
17 MT |
3 |
| Mobile Crane |
30 MT |
1 |
| Forklift Truck |
3 MT |
10 |
| Payloaders |
3.8
Cum. |
4 |
| Tractor |
|
1 |
| Trailor |
|
1 |
|
|
| Use of Private
Equipments, wherever necessary is permitted. |
| Transit Shed |
Area |
Capcity |
| Transit Shed No. I |
5700
sq. m. |
14000
MT |
| Transit Shed No. II |
1440
sq. m. |
3600
MT |
| Transit Shed No. III |
3100
sq. m. |
6700
MT |
| Transit Shed No. IV |
2400
sq. m. |
6000
MT |
| Fertilizer Shed
(Open) |
2640
sq. m. |
6600
MT |
| Warehouse No. I |
61 *
12 m |
1800
MT |
| Warehouse No. II |
61 *
12 m |
1800
MT |
| Warehouse No. III |
91 *
18 m |
4000
MT |
| Warehouse No. IV |
140 *
41.9 m |
14000
MT |
At
present 2,20,300 sq. m. of open stacking area is available
inside the port for storage of more than 13 lakh tons of
different cargo. These stackyards are connected with Rail and
Road. Additional stackyards of over 1,00,000 sq. m. are soon
to be commissioned.
The
Port hasa its own Railway system. The route length is 6.8 Km.
and track length is 36 km. At present, there are 7 nos. of
Locomotives as indicated below:
| 700 BHP |
CLW-WDS-4 |
2 |
| 1150 BHP |
BHEL |
1 |
| 1350 BHP |
BHEL |
1 |
| 1400 BHP |
DLW-WDS-6 |
1 |
Railway
sidings capable of handling full rakes of 40 box wagons are
available
Adequate
supply of water to ships is available. Limited bunkering
facilities are available from Indian Oil Corporation.
The
Port has a slip way along with workshop for repair and
maintainence of Port Crafts and barges. There is a well
equipped Central Workshop for repair and maintence of Port
equipment. This workshop can undertake repair jobs for ships,
in case of need.
|
| Available
through the agent |
Tons/Day |
| Average
loading discharging rates |
|
| Chrome
Ore |
3000 |
| Coal |
5000 |
| Iron
& Steel |
3000 |
| Foodgrains |
1000 |
| Fertilizers |
1000 |
| Other
General Cargo |
800 |
|
General Section
