Dear Customers and Business Partners

At the outset, I wish you all a happy and prosperous new year.

You might be aware that the Port of Paradip is one of the premier maritime gateways on the East Coast of India based on its core strengths: deep draft, proximity to rich mineral reserves, vicinity to the large hinterland, and land-locked regions. The Port is all set to become a lead hub port of East Coast and economic thrust engine for Eastern India by offering world class cost effective marine and operational services and by leveraging on highly mechanized and dedicated handling facilities, superior supply chain connectivity, and strategic partnerships with private investors.

The Port commenced as a mono-commodity port on 18th April, 1966 having only one berth to handle Iron ore vessel of 60,000 DWT size. Over the years, the Port has flourished into a multi-commodity port and presently the Port has fourteen berths and a Single Point Mooring equipped with state of art cargo handling equipment. The Port has made an unprecedented growth of traffic from 0.067 Million tonnes in the year 1966-67 to 57.01 Million tonnes in 2009-10. During the last six years the port has expanded its scale and scope of operation to double its traffic.

The performance of the Port has been remarkable during last five years, while it was exceptional in the year 2009-10. Paradip Port has handled 57.01 Million tonnes of traffic in this fiscal year with a growth rate of 22.84% as compared to 5.74% average growth of all Major Ports during the year 2009-10, despite global meltdown and less EXIM trade in the international market. Paradip Port’s Position has improved to 5th position from earlier 8th position amongst the Major Ports in terms of volume of traffic handled due to quantum jump in cargo handling. Apart from registering highest growth rate, the Port was positioned 2nd in terms of gross surplus, 3rd in operating surplus, and positioned 4th in terms of operating income amongst all Major Ports during Financial Year 2009-10. This has been possible only with hard work, unstinting contributions and well wishes of the Port employees, Port users, and other stakeholders. The role of Trade Unions has been vital and encouraging in achieving the milestones.

Induced by the exponential growth in demand on existing facilities of the Port, the Management is undertaking various projects to augment the capacity and diversify operations further to sustain its competitive advantages over all other Ports. The Port is committed to enhance its capacity from 76 million metric tonne at present to 157 million metric tonne by the year 2015 by taking up a host of capacity expansion projects like ‘Deepening of Channel and berths’ to handle Cape size vessels (i.e. up to 1, 25,000 DWT size), Development of a new deep draught Iron ore terminal and a new deep draught Coal Terminal on BOT basis through PPP mode to handle 10 MTPA each of Iron Ore and coal respectively, Construction of one multipurpose berth on BOT basis through PPP Mode to handle containers and other clean cargoes of 5 MTPA, construction on southern oil jetty, installation of 2nd and 3rd Single Point Mooring, development of Western Dock System, and mechanization and modernization of the existing Berths etc.

Let me know, if there is any issue that you think should be top priority for us to help you to grow your business through the Port.

You can always feel free to contact me directly for sharing a happy note which would be more encouraging or for sharing your grievance / suggestion / feedback which would pave way for further improvement.


G.J.Rao
chmppt@paradipport.gov.in