Kandla

Kandla, also known as the Kandla Port Trust or Deendayal Port is a seaport in Kutch District of Gujarat state in western India, near the city of Gandhidham. Situated on the Gulf of Kutch, it is one of real ports on west drift. Kandla was built in the 1950s as the main seaport serving western India, after the parcel of India and Pakistan left the port of Karachi in Pakistan. The Port of Kandla is situated on the Gulf of Kutch on the northwestern shore of India, somewhere in the range of 256 nautical miles southeast of the Port of Karachi in Pakistan and more than 430 nautical miles north-northwest of the Port of Mumbai Bombay.

Kandla Port Trust, India's busiest significant port as of late, is adapting to include considerable freight taking care of limit with private area investment. The west drift port dealt with 72,225 million tons of payload in 2008-09, more than 11% more than the 64,920 million tons took care of in 2007-08. Indeed, even as a lot of this development has originated from treatment of raw petroleum imports, for the most part for Essar Oil's Vadinar refinery in Gujarat, the port is additionally taking measures to support non-POL payload. Last monetary, POL movement represented 63 for every penny of the aggregate payload took care of at Kandla Port, as against 59% of every 2007-08.