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Indian Ports,
merchant fleet and its airlines
India enjoys a strategic location in the Indian Ocean and has a vast coastline of around
7,000 km's. India has 14,500 km of waterways (ranked 9th in the world).
The annual port traffic was 756 million tonnes
in 2009-10, up from 390 million tonnes in 2000-01 and during 1996-97 was around 227 million tonnes. JNPT
(Navi Mumbai) was the third
fastest growing port in the world.
Major Merchant Fleets of the World, Jan 2003
Source: Maritime Administration, US Dept of Commerce
(tonnage in thousands)
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Country |
No. of Ships |
Gross DWT Tons |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16 |
Greece
Japan
China
Norway
Germany
US
Hong Kong
S. Korea
Taiwan
Singapore
Denmark
UK
Russia
Italy
Saudi Arabia
India |
2,915
2,722
2,033
1,075
2,024
890
551
755
516
611
551
508
1661
466
93
277 |
148,873
104,368
43,629
42,701
40,252
40,247
35,372
25,067
21,645
16,788
16,518
16,392
14,751
12,200
10,963
10,366 |
Note:
- Feets of ships totaling 1000 gross tons or more
- The ships could be flagged in other countries like Panama, Liberia etc.
- Includes combination and cargo ships and all other types of ships
- Excludes ships operating exclusively in inland lakes and waterways, channel ships,
icebreakers, cable ships and merchant ships owned by military.
- Gross tonnage is a volume measurement and Deadweight (DWT) is the carrying capacity of
the ship in long tons (2240 lbs)
Port Traffic
Eleven Major ports accounted for 95 percent of the total cargo handled and the
rest was handled by 139 operable minor ports. The primary responsibility for development
and management of major ports rests with the Central Government. Administration of minor
ports is the responsibility of the State Government.
The 11 major ports are:
· Mumbai Port
· New Mangalore Port
· Chennai Port
· Kandla Port
· Jawaharlal Nehru Port, Mumbai
· Mormugao Port
· Kochi Port
· Tuticorin Port
· Paradip Port
· Calcutta Port
· Visakhapatnam Port
As of 2007 April, there are 5 ports in
India which handle more than 50 million tonnes of cargo annually viz.
Kolkata port, Chennai port, Kandla port, Visakapatnam port and Mumbai port.
The commodity composition of traffic handled at major ports has undergone a substantial
change indicating the growing industrialization of the economy.
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Fast Facts:
- India's merchant fleet is the sixteenth largest in the world.
- JNPT is third fastest growing port in the world-
Annual cargo traffic tripled from 227 million tons in 1995
to over 756 million tons in 2010.
- Airlines |
