| Haldia Port হলদিয়া বন্দর | |
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 MV Kingfisher at Berth No. 14 of Haldia Dock Complex | |
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| Location | |
| Country |  India |
| Location | Haldia, West Bengal |
| Coordinates | 22°02′41″N 88°05′20″E / 22.0447°N 88.0888°E |
| Details | |
| Opened | 1977 |
| Operated by | Syama Prasad Mukherjee Port Authority |
| Owned by | Syama Prasad Mukherjee Port Authority, Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways, Government of India |
| Type of harbour | River tide gate, and river natural |
| Size | 6,367 acres (25.77 km2) |
| No. of berths | 12 |
| No. of wharfs | 6 |
| Draft depth | 9 metres (30 ft) (Maximum) |
| Water depth | 12.5 metres (41 ft) |
| Statistics | |
| Annual cargo tonnage | 92.34 million tonnes (2023-2024)[1][2] |
| Annual container volume | 1,07,182 TEUs (2022-2023)[3] |
| Net income | ₹632 crore (US$76 million) (2022–23)[4] |
The Haldia Port (Bengali: হলদিয়া বন্দর, romanized: Holdiẏa Bondor), officially Haldia Dock Complex (HDC), is a port on the confluence of the Haldi River and the Hooghly River. The port is located at Haldia in West Bengal, about 130 kilometres (81 mi) from the sandheads–deep sea area of the Bay of Bengal, 45 kilometres (28 mi) upstream from Pilotage Station at Sagar and 104 km (65 mi) downstream of Kolkata. In 1968, an oil jetty was commissioned at Haldia, and officially in 1977 the port facility of Haldia started functioning as a subsidiary port of the Port of Kolkata under the name Haldia Dock Complex.
The port consists of a dock enclosed by lock and riverside jetties. The dock have container terminal, dry cargo terminal and bulk cargo terminal, and river jetties mainly handle liquid products. The port is mainly handles fully loaded Handy size (not Handymax)–carriers of 28,000–40,000 deadweight tonnage (DWT)–vessels. It has a maximum draft depth of 9 metres (30 ft) and can accommodate Panamax vessels up to 230 metres (750 ft) long with cargoes of 40 to 50 percent of its capacity. The port operates floating crane facilities at the deep drafted anchorages located at Sagar and sandheads to accommodate large vessels for discharging bulk cargoes, liquid products are discharged in the Sandheads through Ship-to-ship cargo transfer.
The Haldia Port is one of the ports that support the hinterland of Central, East and Northeast India. It mainly transports bulk cargoes; handled 49.54 million metric tonnes of cargoes in the 2023–24 financial year. It also handled over 0.1 million (1 lakh) TEUs containers in 2022–23. The Shyamaprasad Mukherjee Port (Kolkata) handles most of the cargoes through the Port.
- ^ "Kolkata Port profit jumps 65pc to Rs 501cr in FY'24, records all-time high cargo handling". The Economic Times. 4 April 2024. Retrieved 5 April 2024.
- ^ "An all time record cargo handling in 2022-23 at SMP, Kolkata after 1870". pib.gov.in. Delhi: Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways. 4 April 2023. Retrieved 16 April 2023.
- ^ Haranadh 2023, p. 2.
- ^ "লাভের অঙ্ক বাড়ল হলদিয়া বন্দরের" Lābhēra aṅka bāṛala haladiẏā bandarēra [Haldia port's profit increased]. www.anandabazar.com (in Bengali). Haldia: Anandabazar Patrika. 6 April 2023. Retrieved 16 April 2023.