India: total cargo volume handled by major port 2021

At the end of the fiscal year 2021, the total volume of cargo handled at the Deendayal port in India was nearly 120 million metric tons. In comparison to the previous year, there was a growth of around 17 percent in the cargo volume handled by this port. In total, major ports across India handled more than 672 million metric tons of cargo the same year.

Volume of total cargo handled across India in financial year 2021, by major port (in million metric tons)

Characteristic	Volume in million metric tons
Deendayal	117.57
Paradip	114.55
Visakhapatnam	68.84
J. L. Nehru	64.81
Mumbai	53.32
Haldia D. C.	45.47
Chennai	43.55
New Mangalore	36.5
Chidambaranar	31.79
Cochin	31.5
Kamarajar	25.89
Mormugao	21.99
Kolkata D. S.	15.9

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Release date

May 2022

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Region

India

Survey time period

FY 2021

Special properties

including overseas and coastal cargo

Supplementary notes

India's financial year begins in April and ends in March. For example, FY 2016 started in April 2015 and ended in March 2016.

Major ports are under the union list while the non-major ports are under the concurrent list of the constitution of India. Therefore, major ports are under the administrative control of government of India while the non-major ports are governed by the respective maritime state governments.

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