Haldia Port
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The Haldia Port, officially Haldia Dock Complex (HDC), is a port on the confluence of the Haldi River and the Hooghly River. The port is located at Haldia in West Bengal, about 130 kilometres (81 mi) from the sandheads–deep sea area of the Bay of Bengal, 45 kilometres (28 mi) upstream from Pilotage Station at Sagar and 104 km (65 mi) downstream of Kolkata. In 1968, an oil jetty was commissioned at Haldia, and officially in 1977 the port facility of Haldia started functioning as a subsidiary port of the Port of Kolkata under the name Haldia Dock Complex.
Haldia Port | |
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Location | |
Country | India |
Location | Haldia, West Bengal |
Coordinates | 22.0447°N 88.0888°E / 22.0447; 88.0888 |
Details | |
Opened | 1977; 47 years ago (1977) |
Operated by | Syama Prasad Mukherjee Port Authority |
Owned by | Syama Prasad Mukherjee Port Authority, Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways, Government of India |
Type of harbour | Larger river port/sea port |
Size | 6,367 acres (25.77 km2) |
No. of berths | 12 |
No. of wharfs | 6 |
Draft depth | 9 metres (30 ft) (Maximum) |
Water depth | 12.5 metres (41 ft) |
Statistics | |
Annual cargo tonnage | 49.54 million tonnes (2023-2024)[1][2] |
Annual container volume | 1,07,182 TEUs (2022-2023)[3] |
Net income | ₹632 crore (US$79 million) (2022–23)[4] |
The port consists of a dock enclosed by lock and riverside jetties. The dock have container terminal, dry cargo terminal and bulk cargo terminal, and river jetties mainly handle liquid products. The port is mainly handles fully loaded Handy size (not Handymax)–carriers of 28,000–40,000 deadweight tonnage (DWT)–vessels. It has a maximum draft depth of 9 metres (30 ft) and can accommodate Panamax vessels up to 230 metres (750 ft) long with cargoes of 40 to 50 percent of its capacity. The port operates floating crane facilities at the deep drafted anchorages located at Sagar and sandheads to accommodate large vessels for discharging bulk cargoes, liquid products are discharged in the Sandheads through Ship-to-ship cargo transfer.
The Haldia Port is one of the ports that support the hinterland of Central, East and Northeast India. It mainly transports bulk cargoes; handled 49.54 million metric tonnes of cargoes in the 2023–24 financial year. It also handled over 0.1 million (1 lakh) TEUs containers in 2022–23. The Shyamaprasad Mukherjee Port (Kolkata) handles most of the cargoes through the Port.