Adani Ports & SEZ Limited

Mundra port operated by Adani Ports & SEZ limited

Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone Limited

Business of Success

Type

Public company
BSE: 532921

Industry

Port & Shipping

Founded

1998

Founder(s)

Gautam Adani

Headquarters Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

Key people

Mr. Gautam S. Adani(Chairman)

Dr. Malay Mahadevia (Whole Time Director)
Mr. Rajeeva Ranjan Sinha (Whole Time Director)
Capt. Sandeep Mehta (Chief Executive Officer)
Capt. Unmesh Abhyankar (chief operating officer)
Mr. B.G. Gandhi (Associate General Manager - West
Basin)
Mr. Christopher Wood (Head West Basin Port)

Revenue

34.86 billion (US$530 million)(FY 201213)

Net income

16.23 billion (US$250 million)(FY 201213)

Parent

Adani Group

Website

www.adani.com

Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Limited (APSEZ) is Indias largest private multi-port operator.
APSEZ is a part of the Adani Group, a global integrated infrastructure player.[1] The company (earlier
known as Mundra Port & Special Economic Zone Ltd) changed its name to "Adani Ports and Special
Economic Zone Limited" effective 6 January 2012.[2] While earlier, the company had only one operational
port at Mundra, today it also operates ports at Dahej and Hazira in India and at Abbot Point in Australia.
The company is also developing port infrastructure at Mormugao,Visakhapatnam and Kandla in India,
Dudgeon Point in Australia and Bunyu in Indonesia.[3]
APSEZ is Indias first multi-product port-based special economic zone (SEZ).[1] The port is located in the
Northern Gulf of Kutch, en route major maritime routes and well connected through rail, road, air &
pipelines. This makes it a preferred gateway for cargo bound westwards. The port has been designed to
handle all types of cargo viz. containers, dry bulk, break bulk, liquid cargo and automobiles.[3]
Adani Port & Special Economic Zone Limited was conferred with the Gateway Awards of Excellence
Ports & Shipping 2012 in the "Private Port of the Year" category.[4]
Contents
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1 Port Information

2 Milestones

3 Port layout and infrastructure

4 Terminals and berths

5 Port connectivity

5.1 Rail

5.2 Road

5.3 Air

5.4 Pipelines

6 Commodities

7 Cargo handling

8 Operations

9 Violation of environmental norms

10 References

11 External links

Port Information[edit]
The development of Adani Port & Special Economic Zone Limited was conceptualised by the
entrepreneur Mr. Gautam Adani. The port commenced its operations with one berth in October 1998.
APSEZ today consists of 22 berths with a total quay length of 6.5 km in addition to 2 single point moorings
(SPM) and stands on the threshold of being the largest commercial port in India. [5]
APSEZ has an effective capacity to handle 185 million tonnes of cargo per annum the largest amongst all
operational ports in India. APSEZ handled 64 million tonnes of cargo in the financial year 201112. APSEZ
was ranked fourth amongst all commercial ports in India in terms of the total volume of cargo handled in a
financial year.[5]
APSEZ has not only pioneered the concept of deep draft integrated port model, but also of port based SEZ.
The multi-product SEZ consisting Mundra Port and its surrounding areas is planned to be spread over 135
square kilometres (13,500 hectares). Currently, notified Multi-product SEZ is spread over an area of 6473
Hectare, with an additional 168 Hectares notified as a Free Trade Warehousing Zone.[6]

Milestones[edit]

1994 January Gujarat Maritime Board (GMB) approved to set up captive jetty at Mundra[7]

1998 October Mundra Port commences commercial operations with one berth[8]

2002 October Agreements signed with Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) for setting up Single point
mooring (SPM) facility and crude oil handling at Mundra[9]

2003 First container terminal at APSEZ, Mundra International Container Terminal commences
operations (quay length 633 metres)

2005 First Single point facility at Mundra Port commences operations [9]

2006 April Notification issued for Special Economic Zone (SEZ) at Mundra

2007

Offer Initial Public Offer (IPO) for 40,250,000 equity shares of Rs. 10 each of Mudra Port and
Special Economic zone Ltd. to public and employees with price band Rs. 400 Rs. 440[10]

Terminal Two consisting of 4 solid cargo berths commences operations

Second container terminal at APSEZ, Adani Mundra Container Terminal commences operations
(quay length 632 metres)

2009 Ro-Ro Terminal for export & import of automobiles commences operations

2010

Constructed a four lane 1.5 km. long dedicated RoB at a cost of Rs.500 million. This is the first
private four-lane RoB within port area in India capable of withstanding a load of 100 MT to
smoothen and speed up cargo movement[11]

Worlds largest fully mechanised coal import terminal with 60 MMTPA capacity was put into
operation[12]

2011

Second Single Point Facility at APSEZ commences operations for catering to HMEL Bhatinda
requirements

Terminal Three commences operations

2012

Name changed to Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Limited [required]

Doubling of the rail connectivity between Mundra and Adipur completed. APSEZ now has a
private rail network of 117 km.

Third container terminal at APSEZ, Adani International Container Terminal commences

operations (quay length 810 metres)

Port layout and infrastructure[edit]

Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Limited offers a convenient international trade gateway to Europe,
Africa, America and the Middle East. The port has a deep draft that facilitates large vessels including fully
laden capsize vessels to dock alongside its berth.[13] Infrastructure capable of facilitating alongside berthing
helps customers reduce cost which is associated with lighterage operations. It also helps clients bring in
larger vessels and benefit from economies of scale.
APSEZ has ample and commodity-specific dedicated storage areas. The Port has 225,000 sq. metres of
closed godowns and 3,150,000 sq. metres of open storage yards for storage of import or export cargo
within the port premises. The Liquid Terminal at ASPEZ consists of 97 tanks of different sizes and
attributes with a total storage capacity of 425,000 kilolitres for storage of various liquid commodities.
APSEZ has also developed adequate infrastructure for evacuation of cargo keeping in mind the concept of
the inverted funnel. According to the concept, the capacity of a ports evacuation infrastructure should be
more that its marine infrastructure.
APSEZ has developed commodity-specific infrastructure for efficient handling, storage and evacuation of
cargo. The Fertilizer Cargo Complex (FCC) is a fully mechanised state-of-art dedicated fertiliser handling
facility. The FCC has 2 operational lines with 44 bagging machines with a capacity to bag 660 nos. of 50-kg

bags per minute and an effective capacity to load and evacuate 810 rakes per day i.e. 25,600 tonnes per
day.[4]
The steel yard is a dedicated steel storage area spread over 120,000 sq metres and consists of latest
equipment for handling steel cargo. The steel yard is equipped with 8 Goliath cranes and 2 mobiles cranes
with vacuum lift attachments, 6 forklifts with multiple attachments to handle steel coils, slabs and plates, 1
reach stacker and 60 trailers for internal transportation.
Besides the port area there is a large land area for development. A part of this area is now notified and
functional SEZ which is now largest port based Multi product SEZ of the country.[14] This SEZ is ideally
suited to service the huge hinterland of north and northwest India which account for two-third of Indias
GDP. The area is well connected with National road, rail and pipeline network. Being spread over an area
of 84 km2 it includes port, container terminals.[1] Rail, Airport, Container freight station, storage
tanks leading to competitive logistic cost. The area is equipped with uninterrupted cost effective Power
supply, Essential Utilities, Infrastructure and planned social infrastructure for living, learning, health care
and recreation.[3]
APSEZ is being developed as a contemporary business location and is an attractive place to invest and
suited for a diverse activity base for sectors like Light and Heavy Engineering, Project cargo, Auto and Auto
Component, Textiles and Apparel, Pharmaceuticals Dyes and Specialty chemical, Agriproduct processing,
Plastic processing, Timber and Furniture, Global trading, Metal and Mineral etc.[4]
It has considerable distance advantage over other ports to most destinations in Rajasthan,
Haryana, Punjab, Delhi-NCR, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh
and Uttarakhand.[1]

Terminals and berths[edit]

The driving force behind the stupendous growth of Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Limited is the
philosophy that berths should wait for vessels and not the other way. The marine infrastructure at APSEZ
consists of ten (10) berths for handling dry bulk & break bulk cargo, three (3) berths for handling liquid
cargo, six (6) container berths including a Ro-Ro berth, three (3) mechanised import cargo berths and 2
single point moorings for crude oil imports. The mechanised import cargo berths can handle vessels with
maximum draft of 19 metres and other berths can handle vessels with maximum draft of 17 metres. The
SPM facility offers a draft of 32 metres.
The Port has its own fleet of tugs and best-in-class pilots to ensure safe berthing and unberthing of vessels
calling at the Port. APSEZ also owns a fleet of latest dredgers to carry out the capital and maintenance
dredging activities and thereby ensuring that APSEZ has the deepest draft amongst all ports in India. This
self-contained eco system ensures high service levels to customer.[1]

Port connectivity[edit]
APSEZ offers good inland connectivity via rail track, road network, airport and cross country pipelines.

Rail[edit]
Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Limited has developed a 117 km railway network from Mundra to
Adipur. The rail infrastructure is capable of handling 130 trains per day including double stack container
trains and long-haul trains. The rail route is time and cost effective and provides a distance advantage to
customers situated in the Northern hinterland. ASPEZ also owns 6 locomotives which are deployed for
internal shunting of trains to ensure optimum utilisation of the developed infrastructure.[1]

Road[edit]
APSEZ is connected to the hinterland in Northern and Western parts of India through the National Highway
8A Extn. & State Highways 6 & 48. For internal connectivity, the company plans to build 150 km of arterial
and sub-arterial road network within the SEZ, of which 70 km is already completed. The roads are
designed according to IRC Standards Codes and Safety Norms. The port has also constructed a four-lane
Rail-over-Bridge (ROB) in the proximity of the port to ensure that two modes of transportation i.e. road &
rail, do not impede each others movement.

Air[edit]
Mundra Airport is a licensed airport in Private Category with Air Traffic Control (ATC) which is operated by
the Airport Authority of India (AAI). The nearest commercial airports are at Bhuj (65 km)
and Kandla (60 km). The company plans to extend the current runway at Mundra to 4500 meters. It has
also installed a Precision Approach Path Indicator (PAPI), and approach and runway lighting for safe night
landings for aircraft. APSEZ plans to upgrade an International Air Cargo Hub with night landing facility.

Pipelines[edit]
APSEZ is connected to the northern hinterland with three cross-country pipelines. One feeds the IOCL
Panipet refinery, second crude oil pipeline feeds Batinda refinery and third is a white oil line which feeds
the national capital region.

Commodities[edit]
Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone Limited handles a multitude of commodities including steam coal,
coking coal, fertilizers like urea, DAP, MOP, etc., agri commodities like yellow peas, DOC, wheat, etc.,
liquid cargo including crude oil, POL, chemicals, edible oil, etc., containers, automobiles, steel cargo,
project cargo and minerals.

Cargo handling[edit]
APSEZ has a diverse cargo base including dry, bulk, break bulk, liquid, crude oil, project cargo, cars and
containers. APSEZ owns cargo handling equipment like mobile harbour cranes (16 nos.), grab ship
unloaders (7 nos.), pay loaders, excavators and conveyor systems for handling of bulk and break-bulk
cargo. APSEZ also makes use of hired dumpers for quick transfer of cargo between berths and storage
area.

APSEZ has set up 9 docklines for transfer of liquid cargo from the jetty to the liquid tank farm. The
container terminals at APSEZ have a combined infrastructure consisting of 2.1 km of quay length, 18 rail
mounted quay cranes, 48 rubber tyre gantry cranes and 17,400 ground slots

Operations[edit]
The operations at APSEZ are carried out in a detailed manner, providing necessary information like
schedules, tariffs, trade notices, weather and tidal details amongst others. For effective and time-saving
operations, it also possesses robust IT support with the aid of top-of-the-line software applications. For the
protection of storage, it has installed state-of-the-art safety and security measures and infrastructure.
From having only one operational port at Mundra in Gujarat, APSEZ now operates ports at multiple
locations.[2] The port projects the company operates in India and overseas is as follows:

Mundra Port: Designing, engineering, financing, construction, development, management and

operation of multi user and multi-cargo port at Mundra on build, own, operate and transfer (BOOT)
basis situated at Mundra in the District of Kutch, Gujarat under a concession granted by
the Government of Gujarat (GOG).

Adani Petronet (Dahej) Port Pvt. Ltd.: Operates a port in Dahej in Gujarat state under subconcession with Petronet LNG Ltd for handling dry bulk and break bulk cargoes in pursuance to the
Concession granted by Government of Gujarat.[15]

Adani Hazira Port Private Ltd.: Engaged in designing, engineering, financing, construction,
development, management and operation of a multi-cargo port in Hazira in Gujarat State under SubConcession route with Shell B.V. for non-LNG cargoes like coal, containers, automobile and
chemicals. There is a plan to build 13 berths at Hazira port for handling general cargo, Container and
Liquids.

Adani Murmugoa Coal Terminal Pvt. Ltd.: Licensee for development and operations of coal import
terminals in Major Port of Goa under Concession from Mormugao Port Trust.[5]

Adani Vizag Coal Terminal Pvt. Ltd.: Licensee for development and operations of coal import
terminals in Major Port of Visakhapatnam under Concession from Visakhapatnam Port Trust.

Adani Abbot Point Terminal Pty Ltd.: Recently acquired Abbot Point Coal Terminal in Queensland,
Australia on 99 years lease in June 2011.[16] Adani Ports plans to invest INR12 billion in this project,
which will be operational by 2014 and will have an annual capacity to handle 20 million tons of
cargo.[17]

Adani Kandla Bulk Terminal Pvt. Ltd.: Signed a concession agreement with the Kandla Port Trust,
to set up a dry bulk terminal at the Kandla Port on build, operate and transfer basis. With this
agreement, it is the only private sector operator having a presence at six ports in India.[18]

Violation of environmental norms[edit]

A committee headed by Sunita Narain of Centre for Science and Environment, was set up by the
Union Ministry of Environment and Forests to inspect ship-breaking facility of M/s Adani Port and SEZ
Limited near Mundra West Port in Gujarats Kutch district . The committee which submitted its report on
April 18, 2013 found incontrovertible evidence of destruction of mangroves, blocking of creeks and noncompliance of other clearance conditions.[19] Subsequently, on July 29, 2013 a public hearing for the project
was held where people from four project-affected villages and nearby locations attended the public hearing
at Tunda village in Mundra taluka and posed questions about the project and its impact on the
environment. But the public hearing, ended without the company being able to give comprehensive
answers to the queries raised by the project-affected people