The Paradip Port at the end of 3rd quarter of the current fiscal year 2015-16 ending on December 31 last continues as the 2nd best among the Major Ports of India.
In the nine completed months of the current Financial Year (FY)-2015-16, the Paradip Port has handled 55.13 MMT of traffic as against 52.39 MMT of cargo handled during the corresponding period of previous year (2014-15) witnessing a growth rate of 5.23 per cent.
The number of vessels handled by the port accordingly has recorded a growth of 8.65 per cent in the above period as the port handled 1,156 ships in the FY-2015-16 (up to December last) as against 1,064 ships handled during the corresponding period of previous year (2014-15). The port has already taken a slew of measures which has ensured improvement in productivity of ship day from 17,289MT in 2014-15 to 19,856 MT for ship day in 2015-16 witnessing a growth of 14.85 per cent.
On January 8 last, MV Sea Rising of Haldia Energy ltd discharged in a single day record throughput of 35,800 MT non-coking coal. On January 17, another vessel MV VishvaVinay unloaded 36,895 MT of non-coking coal of Tata Sponge.
Similarly, the Mechanised Coal Handling Plant of the port loaded 1,20,600 MT of coastal thermal coal on January 15, the single highest day loading of thermal coal. The port on January 5 last, declared its facility of CQ-1/CQ -2 and South Quay for handling Baby Cape ships up to 260 mtrs length, beam with 43 mtrs and draft of 14.5 mtrs. The port infrastructure like road and railway and drainage system is accordingly being realigned to augment the cargo handling capacity matched with the discharge /load rate of a Baby Cape size ships. The port is already witnessing lot of queries from the various section of trade for regular calling of Baby Cape size ships shortly.
Importer Jindal Steel and Power ltd recently has appointed their 4th Stevedore in its panel Orissa Motors ltd to handle their incoming vessel MV Fantastic. The port has taken a decision for giving permission to the licensed stevedores for arranging the dumpers for their work.