MPSEZ

Mundra Port is strategically located for global trade (Latitude: 22º 43’ 88’ N; Longitude: 69º 42’ 34’ E).  Located on the northern coast of   the Gulf of Kutch on the west coast of India, Mundra Port provides a convenient international trade  gateway to Europe, Africa, America and the Middle East.. Mundra has a deep draft (12.5 Meters – 17 Meters) which enables large vessels like panamax and super post panamax  carriers to dock alongside its berth.  It also has a large land area available for development, part of which is now the Mundra SEZ which proposes to attract port-led industrial development.  Mundra Port is situated in Gujarat, one of India’s most industrialized, investor friendly and commercially successful states.

It is one of the closest ports to the huge hinterland of northern and central India which comprises Rajasthan, Haryana, Delhi, Punjab,  Jammu and Kashmir, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, , Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh, accounting for about 2/3 of India’s cargo. The port has excellent in-land connectivity thru rail track, road net work, airport   and cross country pipelines. The port has associate facilities like warehousing, container freight stations, storage tanks etc.  to add value to your logistic needs. These wide range of options helps in opting for most cost and time effective logistic solution.

Mundra Port and Special Economic Zone Limited (MPSEZ), India’s largest private port and special economic zone, was incorporated as Gujarat Adani Port Limited (GAPL) in 1998 to develop a private port at Mundra, on the west coast of India. The company commenced commercial operations in October 2001. Mundra Special Economic Zone Limited (MSEZ) was incorporated in November 2003, to set up an SEZ at Mundra. MSEZ was merged with GAPL in April 2006. The company was renamed as Mundra Port and Special Economic Zone Limited, to reflect the nature of business.

Mundra Port provides cargo handling and other value-added port services. Mundra SEZ is India’s first port-based multi-product SEZ.
Mundra Port is well connected to the Indian railway network.
• The port has 7 railway sidings and two dedicated diesel locomotives
• It can handle double stack container trains
• A 64 km private railway line has been developed which connects the port with the national network at Adipur. Adipur falls on the broad gauge from Mumbai to Bhuj. Adani also has equity stakes in the Kutch Rail Company Ltd. (KRCL), a project by the Indian railways to shorten the distance between the northern hinterland (including Delhi and commercially important cities like Ludhiana) and Mundra Port by providing a broad gauge connection between Palanpur and Adipur.

Mundra Port is about 65 km from Bhuj and 400 km from Ahmedabad. It is easily accessible by the national highway network (NH 8A and NH 15).  As NH 8A is part of the East-West Corridor of the Golden Quadrilateral project (connecting the four Indian metros – Mumbai, Chennai, New Delhi and Kolkata), which runs from Porbandar in the west to  Silchar on in the northeast, the proximity of this port to this highway is of strategic importance.

The nearest commercial airports to Mundra Port are at Bhuj (65 km) and Kandla (60 km). Mundra Port itself has a private operational airstrip that is suitable for landing mid-size jets. The aerodrome can be extended for commercial operations as land is available with the Adani group adjoining the airstrip.

Because of the distance advantage over large ports like the ones at Mumbai, Mundra is a port of choice for crude and other liquid cargo bound for the northern hinterland including the refineries of Punjab. Pipelines have been laid to Bhatinda, etc.

Facilities: Dry Cargo Handling & Storage
The Mundra Port has state-of-the-art facilities for the handling and warehousing of dry cargo.
• 4 Gottwald and 4 Liebherr mobile harbour cranes with a handling capacity of 750 tons per hour (TPH) per crane
• 22 bagging lines capable of 1008 TPH in total.
• One 1,000 TPH ship loader
• 3.6 km long import and export conveyor system capable of handling 1,500 TPH of import and 1,000 TPH of export cargo
• 2 mobile hoppers for direct discharge into the import conveyors
• 6 mobile hoppers for direct discharge into dumpers
• Wheat cleaning and rice sorting systems
Facilities for Storage
• 21 closed godowns ad measuring 1,37,000 sq. m., for wheat, rice, sugar, deoiled cakes (DOC), fertilizer, fertilizer raw materials (FRM), etc   
• 8,80,000 sq. m. of well demarcated open storage space for steel sheets, plate, coils, scrap, clinker, salt, coal, coke, bentonite, etc
• 26,000 sq. m of open storage alongside rail siding
• Wheat cleaning facility with a capacity of 1,200 MT / day
• Rice sorting and grading facilities with a capacity of 500 MT / day
• 8 weighbridges for dry cargo
• 2 in-motion rail weighbridges

Adani Container Terminal (ACT) at Mundra Port and Special Economic Zone (MPSEZ) is the newest and state-of-the-art facility located in the West Coast of India.ACT is a natural and the closest gateway port for the cargo generating hubs in the Northern and Western Hinterland of India. ACT has a deep draft of 17.5 meters alongside which can easily handle 8000TEU+ Ultra Large Container Ships.

The container terminal infrastructure available for the customers include 631 meters quay length with 6 Super-Post Panamax Quay cranes having an outreach of 22 containers across and 16 RTGs to support the yard operations. There is ample backup area for storage of containers.Latest technology adopted by ACT are TekLogix Wireless handheld Radio Data Terminals and NAVIS terminal operating system with features like Automated vessel and yard planning and Electronic invoicing etc. ACT is well connected by Rail and Road to the Northern and Western Hinterland of India. The present railway line capacity is 40 trains per day.Double stack container train is a regular feature in the non-congested diesel railway route from ACT Mundra to Delhi (National Capital Region). ACT offers a shorter and reduced distance advantage of around 435 kilometers over the port of Nhava Sheva (JNPT) and this results in huge savings in logistics costs to the customers.ACT presently has 12 direct weekly services to/from Far East, Middle East, Persian Gulf and Europe. The shipping lines calling ACT are Shipping Corporation of India (SCI), Hapag Llloyd, Hamburg Sud, Wanhai Lines, K Line, PIL, Evergreen ,TS Lines, Messina Line, IRISL etc.