December 03, 2008
Update on performance of major ports in India in 2007-08
As per available reports, the traffic handled by India’s major ports has increased substantially during 2007-08. In 2007-08, the 12 major ports handled a total of 519 million tonnes of cargo up by 12% YoY over 463 million tonnes handled in 2006-07.
The ports also surpassed the target of 515 million tonnes set up the shipping ministry by 0.75% for 2007-08. Incidentally, all the ports achieved positive growth during the fiscal, with 6 ports achieving double-digit growth.
Kandla emerged as the largest cargo handling port in 2007-08 with a handling of 64.89 million tonnes up by 22.48% YoY. It overtook marginally the Visakhapatnam port, which had the record of being on top for 8 years in succession.
| Rank | Port | 2007-08 | 2006-07 | Change |
| 1 | Kandla | 64.89 | 52.98 | 22.5% |
| 2 | Visakhapatnam | 64.60 | 56.39 | 14.6% |
| 3 | Chennai | 57.15 | 53.41 | 7.0% |
| 4 | Mumbai | 57.04 | 52.40 | 8.9% |
| 5 | JNPT | 55.76 | 45.00 | 23.9% |
| 6 | Paradip | 42.43 | 38.52 | 10.2% |
| 7 | New Mangalore | 36.01 | 32.04 | 12.3% |
| 8 | Mormugao | 35.12 | 34.24 | 2.5% |
| 9 | Tuticorin | 21.48 | 18.oo | 19.3% |
| 10 | Kochi | 15.31 | 15.25 | 0.3% |
| 11 | Kolkata (Incl Haldia Dock) | 13.70 | 12.60 | 8.7% |
| 12 | Ennore | 11.56 | 10.71 | 7.9% |
