The Port of Mumbai is situated almost midway (Latitude 18° 54’ N, Longitude 72° 49’ E) on the West coast of India and is gifted with a natural deep water Harbour of about 400 square kilometres protected by the mainland of Konkan on its East and Island of Mumbai on its West. The deep waters in the Harbour provide ample shelter for shipping throughout the year. The approaches to the Harbour are well lighted, with the Prongs Lighthouse to the North, visible 27 kilometres and the Kennery Light House to the south visible 29 kms. The entrance of the Harbour which has approaches from the South-west is between Prongs Reef and the Thull Reef lying off the mainland to the South-east, a distance of about 9 kilometres. |
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The main navigational Harbour Channel is, for the great part, a natural deep-water fairway. The channel has been deepened to 11 metres. With a mean high water neap tide of 3.3 metres, the channel is adequate to meet the requirement of a large number of cargo vessels, passenger ships and deep drafted tankers. With good lighting arrangements navigation is allowed at the port round the clock. | |
Dry Cargo Handling There is a enclosed wet dock namely Indira Dock having a total water area of 24.04 hectares and a quayage of about 4000 metres. The Indira Dock, has an Entrance Lock 228.6 metres long and 30.5 metres wide though which vessels can enter or leave the docks at any state of tide. There are 21 berths inside the basin and 5 berths along the harbour wall, with a designed depth of 9.14 metres and 7.5 metres respectively. The depth of berths inside the basin can be increased by 1.20 metres by impounding water by electric pumps. There are two berths on the Southward extension of East arm of the Indira Dock, namely Ballard Pier Station and Ballard Pier Extension. The Ballard Pier Extension berth, is 244 metres long and has a modern passenger Terminal Building. It has a designed depth of 9.75 metres CD The Ballard Pier Station berth caters to container vessels and has a designed depth of 9.1 metres CD. Marine Oil Terminals At Jawahar Dweep Oil Terminal crude oil and petroleum products are handled. At this terminal there were 4 jetties JD1,JD2, JD3 & JD4. For handling large crude oil vessels , the project of constructing new jetty JD5 was earlier taken up and completed in December 2020. Length of this JD5 berth is 470 mtrs and designed draft of 17 mtrs. Vessels of upto 150000 tonnes cargo can be berthed at JD5. At Pir Pau, chemicals and petroleum products are handled. There are 3 jetties viz. Old Pir Pau , New Pir Pau(NPP) and New Pir Pau 2(NPP2). At Old Pir Pau only lube/base oil barges are handled. Chemicals , LPG and other petroleum products are handled at NPP & NPP2. All the jetties are connected to Oil Refineries/storage tanks by a network of pipelines. Bunders Besides the wet docks, there are along the harbour front a number of bunders and open wharves where the traffic carried by barges/sailing vessels are handled. Dry Dock The port has one dry dock, inside the Indira Dock, viz. Hughes Dry Dock which is 304 metres long. Storage There are transit sheds at most of the berths and a number of warehouses in the Port area for storage of uncleared cargo and pre-shipment storage of export cargo. |
S. No. | Title | Link Type | File Size | Last Updated |
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1 | Port Layout | File Link | (515.66 KB) | 18 December 2023 |
2 | Plan of Docks | File Link | (3.67 MB) | 19 December 2023 |