Gangavaram Port Details: Key Advantages of The Location Include

Gangavaram Port details
Gangavaram Port is located at Visakhapatnam, the industrial nerve center of Andhra Pradesh around
Latitude 17° 37' N and Longitude 83° 14' E, about 15 kms south of Visakhapatnam Port.
The site for Gangavaram Port is the best location for development of a modern all weather, deepwater,
multipurpose and truly next generation port. The coast here forms a bay between Yarada Hill at north
and Mukkoma Hill at south. A creek in between these two hills forms Balacheruvu Lagoon, where the
natural port of Gangavaram is being developed.
The Gangavaram Port, located on East Coast of India, is the most modern, all weather, deepwater, multipurpose
port offering significant cost savings to Importers and Exporters in the hinterland.
Key advantages of the location include:
Deep waters very close to the shore
National/Regional road and rail connectivity run very close to the site
Around 2800 acres (1133 ha) of uninhibited back up area
Vizag Steel Plant with cargo handling requirement of 7 MTPA located adjacent to port site
Proximity to major industrial and mineral belts of Eastern and Central India
The Port offer's the following advantages with potential cost savings to Port Users:
Reduced per ton ocean-freight owing to larger parcel sizes at deep-draft berths
Significantly reduced vessel waiting time owing to highly efficient port operations
Faster turn-around of vessels owing to modern high-speed cargo handling equipment
Cost-efficient logistic solution owing to high-speed cargo evacuation and proximity to national/regional
road/rail network
Environment-friendly material handling system
Competitive tariffs
Keeping in view the future requirements of industry, Gangavaram Port Master Plan has been designed with facilities
to handle up to 300,000 DWT vessels, flexibility for phased development and room for expansion for a plan period
of 50 years.
The Salient Features of the development plan include:
Master Plan has provision for 29 berths with a capacity of 200 MTPA
Plan for entire spectrum of cargos, with berths for handling dry bulk, other dry bulk, break bulk and container
cargo with dedicated cargo centric zones
Breakwaters to provide complete protection to berths from waves and swell to facilitate all weather, round the
year port operations
Navigation channel and harbor area providing adequate maneuvering room for ships
Total land area of 2800 acres for port facilities development
Extensive ancillary facilities and state-of-the-art utilities/services

Adequate backup area for developing stack yards, covered storage sheds, tankages, container freight station,
etc.
Flexibility to quickly ramp up cargo handling facilities as per demand
Rail and road access up to the stack yards, storage sheds and container yard
Provision to provide value added services like Coal Blending
Provision for Ship building and repair facilities
Marine Oil Terminal consisting of Single Point Mooring system for handling VLCCs, sub-sea pipeline and Tank
farm
Marine Facilities
Berthing Facilities (5 Berths: Iron Ore 1; Coal 1; Multipurpose 3)
Depth in harbor 19.5m below CD
Mechanized Coal and Iron Ore discharge system for vessel size upto 200,000 DWT
Mechanized Wagon Loading and Wagon Tippling System
New generation Mobile Harbor Cranes for other bulk and break bulk cargoes
Coal stackyard and Iron ore stackyard with storage capacity of approximately
1 MMT each
Covered transit storage for bulk and break cargoes
Extensive ancillary facilities and state-of-the-art utilities / services
Flexibility for future expansion of cargo handling facilities as per demand
Round the clock Cargo handling and Marine operations
Environmental friendly operation
Berths Size Alongside Depth

1 Coal Cargo 320 x 25 m 19.50 m below CD
2 Iron Ore Cargo 340 x 25 m 19.50 m below CD
3 Other Dry Cargo 275 x 31 m 15.50 m below CD
4 Multipurpose Cargo 281 x 31 m 15.50 m below CD
5 General Cargo 242 x 28 m 14.00 m below CD
Berth Configuration in Phase 1
Cargo Handling Facilities
New generation mechanized cargo handling system has being installed at Gangavaram Port for faster and efficient
handling and evacuation of cargo with minimum handling loss. Cargo handling equipment installed in Phase-I
development include, Ship Loader for bulk exports, Ship Unloaders for bulk imports, Mobile Harbour Cranes for
bulk/break bulk cargo, associated conveyer system for transportation to and from stackyard, Stackers &
Reclaimers for stackyard operations and Wagon loader & Wagon tipplers for handling Railway rakes.
Railway Connectivity
Railway connectivity has being laid connecting the port to the main broad gauge national network of "Chennai-
Visakhapatnam-Howrah" rail corridor. The Port has its own independent "Railway Siding" with main salient features
as follows:
R&D yard with "Six interchangeable lanes" for receipt and dispatch of rakes
Distance from port R&D yard rail siding will be approximately 2.5 kms
Coal siding for placing two full rakes for mechanized wagon loading
Two in-motion weighbridges for weighment of rakes
Two locomotives for shutting of rakes within the railway siding
Road Connectivity
Road connectivity to the port has been provided by a 4 lane expressway of 3.8 kms connecting the port with the
National Highway No.5 (Chennai - Kolkata)

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Key advantages of the location include:

Deep waters very close to the shore

Around 2800 acres (1133 ha) of uninhibited back up area

Faster turn-around of vessels owing to modern high-speed cargo handling equipment

Environment-friendly material handling system

The Salient Features of the development plan include:

Total land area of 2800 acres for port facilities development

Extensive ancillary facilities and state-of-the-art utilities/services

Flexibility to quickly ramp up cargo handling facilities as per demand

Provision to provide value added services like Coal Blending

Provision for Ship building and repair facilities

Berthing Facilities (5 Berths: Iron Ore 1; Coal 1; Multipurpose 3)

Depth in harbor 19.5m below CD

Mechanized Wagon Loading and Wagon Tippling System

Extensive ancillary facilities and state-of-the-art utilities / services

Flexibility for future expansion of cargo handling facilities as per demand

Round the clock Cargo handling and Marine operations

Environmental friendly operation

Berths Size Alongside Depth

Cargo Handling Facilities

Two in-motion weighbridges for weighment of rakes

Two locomotives for shutting of rakes within the railway siding

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