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Cochin Port
The port that is one of the largest ports in India is the Cochin Port. This port is also considered as one of the largest ports in Arabian Sea – Indian Ocean Sea-route. The port has a unique location that it is situated on two islands that are part of Lake of Kochi; these islands are named as the Willingdon Island and the Vallarpadam Island. The port has its opening to the Fort in the Kochi River that is in the Arabian Sea. This port also has one of the India’s largest container ports called as the International Container Transshipment Terminal (ICTT). This port also provides to India the largest container transshipment.
The various ports with different facilities are in the port-city of Kochi. Cochin port has the maritime-related facilities while the others port of cochin have the largest ship building port and provide the best maintenance facility for the ships, it also has the port for refineries known as the Kochi refinery and also has a crude mooring facilities and has the Kochi Marina.
History
This port came into existence after the great floods of Periyar that occurred in 1341 AD. This also clogged the Muziris port which was considered as the supreme ports during the ancient times. Since the time the port was considered as one of the major ports of India, it stared its traditional spice business with the Romans, the Greeks and the Arabs. With the continuing time the colonialists like Portuguese, Dutch from European countries and then the British countries were engrossed to have their business via the Port of Kochi. This traditional port is very near to the Mattancherry wharf.
To have a modern port, the necessity was first initiated by Lord Willingdon while he had been governing the Madras domain of the British India. Since after the opening of a canal ships used this passage in the west coast named as the Suez Canal many which ignited a thought in the mind of Lord Willingdon to have a modern port in the southern part of the city. Sir Robert Bristow was considered as the best person for this job as he has a vast experience of engineering the British Harbor and a far-reaching experience of maintaining the Suez Canal. He was appointed as the chief engineer for this job in 1920.
The work of making the dredger got completed in the year 1925. This dredger reached Cochin on May 1926. The usage of the dredger was projected to a usage of twenty hours per day and this should continuously for the two years. The sand that had been rummaged was put for another usage of establishing an Island to house the Cochin Port and also for the other trade activities to grow. A total of 3.2 Km2was drenched. The first steamship that sailed through the newly established inner harbor in Kochi was SS Padma. This all happened with the strong devotion of Sir Bristow and his contended team. After accomplishing his task successfully Sir Bristow gave a statement on BBC which goes like “I live on a large Island made from the bottom of the sea. It is called Willingdon Island, after the present Viceroy of India.From the upper floor of my house, I look down on the finest harbor in the East."
The Maritime Board of British of India avowed Cochin port as one of the major port in the year 1932. This port was able to handle a 30 feet vessel. The Royal Navy captured this port during the World War 2 for housing the military cruisers and the war ships. On date Mat 19th in the year 1945 the port was handed back to the civil authorities. The Government of India took over the charge of the port after Independence.The administration of the port was conferred to the Board of Trustees that came under the Major Port Trusts Act.
Construction
A waft that is 38 feet has been well-maintained in the Ernakulum channel with also facilitates the mooring facilities that allow bigger vessels to pass through it. The quay that is 30 ft has been well maintained in the Mattancherry channel. The port has a well connectivity to the rail, road , waterways and the airways.
Navigation Channel
The ships enter the ports that are in the Cochin goes through the peninsular headland Vypeen and the Fort Cochin. The length of the port goes along the complete backwaters and have also been connected to through the alongside creeks and channels.The channel that approaches the Cochin Gut is almost 1000 meter in length and is around 200 meter wide.This has a capacity of maintaining a rummage of 13.8 meters.
The channel gets split into Mattancherry and Ernakulum channel that leads to the west and east of the Willingdon Island.Docking of the ships is considered on these channels in the way of quays, piers and docks.
Facilities
Berth Information
Ernakulum and the Mattancherry channels were formed after the inward channel split.The length of the Ernakulum channel is about 4.9 km in length and around 250 to 500 meters wide with a quay of 12.5 meters till the Oil terminal Q8/ Q9 and the a wharf that is 9.14 meter till the north and south tanker quays. Ernakulum has six moorings along its length of 1024 meters. Out of these five docks are used for the general purpose cargoes and the remaining one as the fertilizer wharf. Ernakulum also has three oil wharfs. . The length of the Mattancherrychannel is about 4.08 km in length and around 180 to 250 meters widewith a quay of 9.14 meters with the exception of quay of 10 meters at the Boat Train Pier. Mattancherry has four moorings along its length. These docks are used for the general purpose cargoes, also for the Boat Train Pier and have two jetties for different cargoes.
Port Flotilla
Tugs
The wrenches that are part of the Cochin port and generally out of these two wrenches are responsible for the shipping movement to fulfill the necessity of the Pilot. The charges of the wrench and the pilot age are calculated jointly.
TUG | BUILT | PROPULSION | BOLLARD PULL |
BALAVAN | 1996 | Twin screw cycloidal | 32 Tons |
BAALI | 1998 | Twin screw cycloidal | 32 Tons |
VALLARPADAM | 2008 | Twin screw cycloidal | 45 Tons |
VYPEEN | 2008 | Twin screw cycloidal | 45 Tons |
Mooring Launches
The Tanker, Coal and fertilizer quays are used as the wharfs that have been launched through the four wharfs. While the other wharfs are used to pass by the heaving lines.
Pilot Boats
The 13.5 meter lengthy Red Hull and the White Superstructure has “Pilots” embossed on its side. These are embossed on the two pilot boats.
Dredgers
A wharf named as the Nehru Shatabdi that was built in 1992 and has a hopper capacity of 1500 m3.
Floating Crane
A self-drove crane of 100 M.T.SWL called as the Periyar in the year 1966 was built in the inner harbor only.
Water Barge
For the supply of F.W. to the ships through the Inner harbor with a capacity of 200 M.T was built in Jalaprabha in 1996.
Single Point Mooring For Crude Oil Import
To import the Crude oil the Kochi Refineries Ltd has implemented a Single Point Mooring System also called as SPM. These SPMs have been capable of handling Vey large Carriers also called as the VLCCs that goes upto a capacity of 300,000 DWT.A pipeline of 19.5 km is created to connect the SPM and the tank storage facility that is located at Puthuvypeen.The 30 meter deep wharf can hold 300,000 DWT tankers with wafts that are 21 m to be used while there are virtual wind and wave conditions.A pipeline of 48 inch goes through the storage facility to the SPM where the storage consists of four tanks with a holding capacity of 80,000 kilo liters each. These four tanks are covered in the area of seventy hectares which still leaves the space for two more storage tanks that can be used to store 80,000 kilo liters. The complete facility got operational in December 2007.
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