Deendayal Port, Location, Latest News

It is located in Kachchh District in Gujarat.

It is situated in the Kandla Creek.

It was built to serve as the chief seaport of western India after the Partition of India, when Port of Karachi became part of Pakistan.

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Deendayal Port Latest News

The Deendayal Port in Gujarat’s Kandla is gearing up to handle a whopping 22 vessels over a 72-hour period over the weekend.

Deendayal Port (previously called Kandla Port) is the second largest seaport of India, situated in the Kachchh District of Gujarat State in western India.
It is situated in the creek of Kandla, which is at a distance of 90 kms from the Gulf of Kachchh.
It is a protected natural harbor.
It is recognized as one of the major ports in India.
It was constructed in the 1950s as the chief seaport serving western India after the partition of India from Pakistan left the port of Karachi in Pakistan.
It is 256 nautical miles southeast of the Port of Karachi in Pakistan and over 430 nautical miles north-northwest of the Port of Mumbai.
The port is specialized in handling bulk import and export cargo, including liquid cargo.
It features 18 berths, including 12 dry cargo berths and 6 oil jetties, handling a wide range of cargo such as petroleum, chemicals, iron ore, salt, and containers.
It remains India’s biggest state-owned cargo handler by volume, but it has steadily lost market share to privately owned Mundra Port (India’s largest private port), 60 km to the southwest.