Dry Cargo Storage and Handling:
1. What is storage capacity of the warehouses?
Port has substantial storage space comprising 1, 37,000 Sq. m. of closed warehouses and 7, 08,000 Sq. m. of well demarcated open storage space.
2. What are the kinds of commodities that are stored in the warehouse?
Commodities like wheat, rice, sugar, fertilizer are stored in the warehouse.
3. Are you carrying out bagging for fertilizer / grain cargo?
Yes
4. What is the average bagging rate?
The average bagging rate is 6000 MT / day.
5. What is the system of cleaning the conveyor and what about the frequency of cleaning?
In case the conveyor is simultaneously used for discharging different cargo then cleaning is done after every vessel operation. The mobile hopper at the jetty are cleaned using water while conveyor is cleaned sometimes by giving dry run and/or manually by laborers at the transfer towers.
6. Do you have facility of handling food grains?
Port has Wheat cleaning facility of 12000 MT/day capacities synchronized with the Export conveyor system which ensures clean wheat of international standards, as also the Rice sorting and grading facility of 500 MT/day capacities along with a multiple bagging unit. |