Cochin

Port Trust
K O C H I P O RT O F K E R A L A
Cochin Port Trust
Cochin Port or Kochi Port is a major port on the Arabian Sea – Laccadive Sea – Indian Ocean sea-
route in the city of Kochi and is one of the largest ports in India.

It is an all-weather natural harbor, and It is also the first transshipment port in India.

The International Container Transshipment Terminal (ICTT), part of the Cochin Port, is the largest
container transshipment facility in India. 

The port is governed by the Cochin Port Trust (CPT), a government of India establishment founded in
1928.
Location of
Cochin Port
Trust

The docking area of cochin port is

on the Willington island.

The port has connectivity of airport

at Willington Island itself & is
connected to NH955A & NH966B.
Import/exports of CPT
Berth information
CPT has a total of 16 small & big berths.
◦ Dry cargo: 7
◦ Crude oil: 2
◦ Liquid bulk: 3
◦ Fertilizer & Phos. Acid: 1
◦ LNG: 1
◦ POL: 3
 The berth length ranges from 170m to 370m & avg being 250m.
 Drafts of these berth ranges from 9.1m to 22.5m & avg being 15m.
Handling instruments & capacity
•One  40 Ton Mobile Harbour Crane.

•Two  Heavy Duty Reach stacker of TIL-HYSTER make of 45 Ton capacity each.

•Five 3 Ton Fork Lift Trucks of Komatsu and Voltas Kion makes  for stuffing and de stuffing
operations .

•One 5 Ton Fork Lift of Voltas Kion make  for handling heavy cargo.

•Total cargos handled in 2020 was above 33.9 thousand millions deadweight tonnes.
Major shipments at CPT
The Cochin port handles variety of goods like cement, dry cargo, oil, etc.

Its shipments of chemicals & fertilizer registers the bulk portion of its capacity.

The Cochin port uses coastal shipping to supply fertilizer to Haldia port, West Bengal, which is largest
buyer of fertilizer from Kerala.

The Cochin port supplies chemicals & LNG through pipeline mode to companies.

All the cargos are supplied by either railways or road transport.

Transport to/from CPT
Transport of chemicals & LNG is done through the pipeline.

But majority of the cargos are transported by road.

The rail connectivity from port is fairly poor as the nearest goods loading/unloading railway
connection is more than 20 km away from the port.

The port has an airport which is just in the radius of few kilometres but due to the high costs it is
generally not used for transport of the goods.
Problem & probable solution
In the aftermath of pandemic, the port of Kochi suffered heavy loss in number of imports & exports.

The major reason behind this was the distance between port to rail-lines(>20 km).

In times of pandemic, everyone wanted their logistic costs to be as low as possible but the cost of
trucking from port to railways & the time consumption in doing so was increasing the cost to
everyone's liking.

The one solution could have been that, the CPT & govt bodies could come to agreement to providing
railroad to the ports’ doorstep, this could significantly reduce the lead time & logistic costs.
Prepared by:
Hardik joshi

Vihar raut

Aditya chawardol