History

The Mundra Port was set up after the Gujarat Maritime Board (GMB) approved a captive jetty there in 1994. The Gujarat Adani Port Ltd., a joint-sector company, was incorporated in 1998 and multi-purpose berths 1 and 2 at Terminal I began operating. Berths 3 and 4 opened at Terminal I in 1999. For development, operation, and maintenance at Mundra the Port signed a concession agreement with GMB in 2001. The Mundra-Adipur railway was completed in this year as well.

In 2002, Guru Govind Singh Refineries Ltd. signed an agreement with the Port of Mundra to handle crude oil and additional agreements were signed with Indian Oil Corporation Limited to set up a single-point mooring facility and handle crude oil. A sub-concession agreement was signed in 2003 to add a container terminal in the Port of Mundra, and the terminal began operating that year. Becoming India’s first multi-product port-based special economic zone, The Mundra Special Economic Zone was incorporated. Two new berths at Terminal II became operational to handle bulk cargo in the same year.

In 2005, The Single-Point Mooring became operational and Adani Port Ltd and Gujarat Adani Port Ltd were merged. Later, in 2007, equity shares in MPSEZ were listed on the National Stock Exchange and Bombay Stock Exchange. A service agreement was signed in 2008 with Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. to handle exports of automobiles. On January 6, 2012, MPSEZ changed its name to "Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Limited" (APSEZ).

Facilities

A total of 10 terminals offering dry cargo, liquid cargo, crude and container handling facilities with a combined 81.5m of Draft and a total capacity of 184.6MMT makes Mundra the largest commercial port of India. The Mundra Port has space to store perishables in 21 closed dockside warehouses spread out in over 225,000 sq. metres. Two thermal power plants are under construction that will produce over 8600 megawatts. A new terminal is planned about ten nautical miles west of the current terminals at the Port. It handles 338 MMT of cargo per annum – the largest amongst all operational ports in India.

For storage of import or export cargo within the port premises, the Port has 3,150,000 sq. metres of open storage yards. The Liquid Terminal at ASPEZ has a total storage capacity of 425,000 kilolitres for storage of various liquid commodities. The Fertilizer Cargo Complex (FCC) is a fertiliser handling facility, and has 2 operational lines with 44 bagging machines with a capacity to bag 660 nos. of 50-kg bags per minute and a capacity to load and evacuate 8-10 rakes per day i.e. 25,600 tonnes per day. There is also a steel storage area spread over 120,000 sq metres well equipped for handling steel cargo.

Mundra Port Ltd. is connected with the Indian Railway network by a privately developed and maintained 76-km rail line from Mundra to Adipur, capable of handling 130 trains per day including double stack container trains and long-haul trains.

The port is strategically located in the Kutch of Gujarat and promises to continue growing with its continued mechanization.