{"id":64828,"date":"2025-09-23T13:16:43","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T07:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=64828"},"modified":"2025-09-23T14:32:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T09:02:36","slug":"paradip-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/paradip-port\/","title":{"rendered":"Paradip Port"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Paradip Port Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A decomposed body was discovered in a coal wagon at Paradip port&#8217;s coal handling plant, marking the second such incident recently.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Paradip Port<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is <\/span><b>one of the major ports <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of India.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the <\/span><b>only major port in <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the State of <\/span><b>Odisha, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">situated <\/span><b>210 nautical miles south of Kolkata a<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">nd <\/span><b>260 nautical miles north of Visakhapatnam.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is situated on the <\/span><b>Bay of Bengal on the delta of the <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/key-facts-about-mahanadi-river\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mahanadi River<\/a><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at the mouth of one of its branches.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is strategically situated so as to <\/span><b>serve a vast hinterland spreading<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> over the states of <\/span><b>Odisha, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, and West Bengal.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Port of Paradip, an<\/span><b> autonomous body<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> under the Major Port Trusts Act, 1963, functioning <\/span><b>under the Ministry of Ports, Shipping &amp; Waterways,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is <\/span><b>administered by a Board of Trustees set up by the Government of India headed by the Chairman.\u00a0<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>Trustees <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of the Trust Board are<\/span><b> nominated by the Government of India<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from various users of the Port such as shippers, ship owners, Government Departments concerned and also port labour.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Paradip port enjoys the advantages of <\/span><b>soft underwater soil,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> so that it <\/span><b>can be deepened to any depth depending upon the need.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At present Paradip Port is <\/span><b>handling various cargo like Crude Oil, POL products, Iron Ore, Thermal Coal<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Chrome Ore, <\/span><b>Coking Coal,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Manganese Ore, Charge Chrome, Ferro Chrome, Ferro Manganese, Limestone, Hard Coke, Ingots and Moulds, Billets, Finished Steel, Scrap, Fertilizer, Fertilizer Raw Material, Clinker, Gypsum, Project Cargo and Containers.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Port is now equipped with 16 (sixteen) berths, 3 (three) Single Point Moorings (SPM), 1 (one) Ro-Ro Jetty, a well maintained Approach and Entrance Channel having 17.1 Mtrs minimum depth.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">Paradip Port achieved a milestone by joining the 150 million metric tonne (MMT) club and maintaining its <b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">top position in cargo handling among India\u2019s major ports by recording 150.41 MMT cargo in 2024-25.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/bhubaneswar\/decomposed-body-found-in-wagon-at-paradip-port-2nd-in-8-days\/amp_articleshow\/124048676.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TOI<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paradip Port is the only major port in the State of Odisha, situated 210 nautical miles south of Kolkata and 260 nautical miles north of Visakhapatnam. 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