Kandla Port
| Kandla Port | |
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Kandla Port | |
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| Location | |
| Country | India |
| Location | Kandla, Gujarat, India |
| Coordinates | 23°00′01″N 70°13′15″E / 23.000271°N 70.2208838°E |
| Details | |
| Opened | 1952 |
| Operated by | Deendayal Port Authority |
| Owned by | Deendayal Port Authority, Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways, Government of India |
| Type of harbour | All weather tidal port |
| Draft depth | 13 metres (43 ft) |
| Length of approach channel | 27 kilometres (17 mi) |
| Official name | Deendayal Port Authority |
| Statistics | |
| Annual container volume | 132.3 million tonnes (2023-2024) |
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Kandla Port, officially known as Deendayal Port, is a seaport in Kutch district of Gujarat, India. The port is situated in the Kandla Creek and is 90 km from the mouth of Gulf of Kutch, it is one of India's major ports on the west coast. It is about 256 nautical miles southeast of the Port of Karachi in Pakistan and about 430 nautical miles north-northwest of the Port of Mumbai. Kandla Port was constructed in the 1950s as the chief seaport serving western India.
The depth of the channel of port depends on the tide. This channel has a minimum depth of 13 meters. It is the largest port of India by volume of cargo handled. Kandla Port was renamed as Deendayal Port in 2017 under the Indian Ports Act, 1908.
The Kandla Port is one of the ports that support the hinterland of North, West and Central India. It mainly transports liquid and bulk cargoes; handled 132.3 million metric tonnes of cargoes in the 2023–24 financial year.