Targeting 50 million tonnes per year cargo handling capacity, VOC Port will undertake infrastructure upgrade measures including dredging of the North Cargo Berth by October this year, to handle vessels up to 14.20 metre draft, besides deploying state-of-the-art cranes. This will speed up the cargo evacuation and turnaround time of vessels.
The port has installed cargo handling capacity of 81.05 million metric tonnes per annum. The port has handled a cargo volumes of 13.17 million tonnes, including 2.47 lakh TEUs of containers during current fiscal till July 25, marking an overall growth of 5.29% and 4.73% respectively. The NCB-3 will also be mechanized by JSW Infrastructure Limited in a span of 18 months with shore unloaders capable of discharging 7 million tonnes per annum. The interim operations of the terminal on completion of dredging will commence using 2 Harbour Mobile Cranes (HMC) with capacity of 100 – 120 tonnes to handle 2 million tonnes within this financial year.
