1. COCHIN PORT
Highlights & Future Plans
Paul Antony
Chairman, Cochin Port Trust

2. One among the 13 Major Ports in India
Modern port built by Sir Robert Bristow between
1920-1940.
Declared as a major port on 29th February 1964
under the MPT Act 1963

3. Willingdon Island
International Container LNG Terminal
Transhipment Terminal

5. Infrastructure and Facilities
Crude Oil Terminal
Total Berth Length: 430 m
Draft: 12.5m

6. Cochin Port – Ernakulam Wharf
Q-10
Q-9
Q-8
Q-7
Q-6
Total Berth Length : 917 m
Q-5
Draft : Q8 to Q9 : 12.5m
Q5 to Q7 : 10.5 m

7. Cochin Port – Mattancherry Wharf
Storage
Yard
Q-4
Q-3
Q-2
Q-1
SCB
Total Berth Length : 670m
Draft : 9.15m MURAF
Jetty

8. Traffic Growth
Low Volume-High value cargo

9. Development Strategy
Geo-strategic Locational Advantage
Well connected to the up country hinterland through a network of rail, road
and inland waterway networks

10. Chennai
Colombo
65% OF INDIA’S EXPORT / IMPORT CONTAINERS ARE
TRANSSHIPPED THROUGH NEIGHBOURING COUNTRY PORTS

11. Chennai
Colombo
THE COCHIN OPPORTUNITY

12. International Container Transhipment Terminal
• Quay Length 1800 metres
• Depth Alongside 16 metres
• Max Draft 14.5 Meters
• Max LOA 350 meters
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13. THE LNG TERMINAL & RE-GASSIFICATION PLANT
A 5 MMTPA LNG Terminal will be commissioned in June, 2012
A 1,200 MW R-LNG based Power Plant is being developed on
Port land
Cryogenic warehousing is being planned.

14. BPCL-Kochi Refinery – Cochin Port
BPCL has a 9.5 MMTPA Refinery at Cochin.
This is being expanded by 6 MMTPA and will be
commissioned in 4 years time.
There is already an SBM 20 km into the sea.
The impact on throughput at Cochin Port is as follows:
8.7
2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17
CRUDE OIL 8.7 9.5 10.0 10.0 10.0 15.5
(MMTPA)
PRODUCTS 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.3 3.5 4.0 6.0
(MMTPA)
TOTAL (MMTPA) 11.7 12.5 12.5 13.3 13.5 14.0 21.5

15. Cochin Port and Liquid Cargo
Cochin Port has 14 Tank Farms with 267,000 KL capacity.
The Port aims to evolve as a major bunkering Port riding
on the advantage of the huge coastal refinery
Facilities are being augmented to handle parcel sizes of
40,000 tonnes.
A 35 acre Tank Farm Park with a berth for deep drafted
vessels is also being developed

16. International Cruise Terminal
• Cochin is the ‘Queen of the Arabian Sea’
– And also the Gateway to Kerala, the fabled ‘God’s Own
Country’
• Currently 50 odd Foreign Cruise vessels call every year
• A Cruise Facilitation Centre is in the works

17. Investment Opportunities in a 4 MMTPA
Mechanized Bulk Cargo Terminal
Q-9
Q-8
Total Berth Length : 414 m
Backup Area: 100,000 sq.m approx.
Draft 12.50 metres

18. Investment Opportunities in Logistics
• A 102 acre FTWZ has
been approved by the
Commerce Ministry
for development as a
logistics hub
• This will be tendered
for development in
PPP mode in 3 months

19. Investment Opportunities in a Ship Repair Yard
• Developing a Ship Repair Yard on 45 acres with 850 metres
waterfront
• Adequate scope for catering to repairs for ships up to Handysize (>
27000 GRT) with LOA up to 150m and OSVs / PSVs / AHTs with
LOA up to 120m

20. Investment Opportunities in Hotelling
• Cochin Port already has
hotels by the Taj Group,
Trident and Casino
• A 26 acre property is
being developed by
Grand Hyatt
• Cochin Port is tendering
another 57 acre plot for
development as a
convention centre and
star hotel

21. Outer Harbour Development
VALLARPADAM
PUTHUVYPEEN

22. COCHIN PORT
THE IDEA – WHOSE TIME HAS COME
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