The all-weather greenfield deep-draft port is being built at an estimated cost of Rs 76,220 crore and will be the 13th major port in the country, and the third in Maharashtra. It will be able to handle 23.2 million TEUs.
An arm of the dedicated freight corridor, the Mumbai-Vadodara Highway, and the under-construction Mumbai-Vadodara Expressway will be linked to the port. The road arm will be 32 km, and the rail will be 12 km long.
The offshore port project has three components: 15,363.5 hectares of waterfront, 1,488 hectares of intertidal zone that will be reclaimed, and 63.5 hectares of berth zone.
The port will have nine container terminals, each of them 1 km long, four liquid cargo berths, four multipurpose berths, a Ro-Ro berth, and a Coast Guard berth. These will be developed and operated on a public-private partnership basis.
The groundbreaking was done by Prime Minister Modi in late August 2024. It will be the country’s first offshore port, in which the port will be built on an artificial island, and will be the third mother port in the country after Vallarpadam in Kochi and Vizhinjam International Seaport in Thiruvananthapuram.
The port will have an artificial harbour, and its berths, along with the inner navigable channel, will be surrounded by breakwaters, while the outer navigable channel will be the open sea.
The port will have a natural depth of 20 meters, making it possible to berth large ships, such as ultra-large container vessels of 233,000 DWT.
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