Cochin Port

18/01/2023

It is cruise time at Cochin Port. Three cruise ships, MV The World,MV Artania and MV Le Champlain called at Cochin Port with 866 tourists & 856 crew. (17 Jan 2023)

01/11/2021

  NET Web Desk In a bid to review the progress and the functioning of Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL), Union Minister for Ports, Shipping and Waterways, Sarbananda Sonowal boarding a helicopter landed in Air Craft Carrier Naval Ship INS Vikrant (IAC 1) along with India Navy Chief Admiral Karamveer Si...

22/09/2021

04/08/2021

A great day for Cochin Shipyard Limited. Indigenous Aircraft Carrier (IAC) built by Cochin Shipyard sailed for maiden sea trials today. It's a matter of great pride to be able to build this advanced and complex warship for Indian Navy.

01/08/2021

Cochin Port registered the total throughput of 10.10 MMT in 2021-22 (Apr-Jul), a growth of 30.10% over the corresponding period of 2020-21, when the COVID-19 pandemic had seriously impacted the throughput. POL throughput registered 5.92 MMT and Container throughput 2.20 Lakh TEUs in 2021-22 (Apr-Jul), growing respectively by 30.23% and 31.65% over the corresponding period of 2020-21.

24/07/2021

Forty glorious years since MV Rani Padmini, the first ship delivered from Cochin Shipyard Limited in 1981. A Big Shout Out and Thank You to Team CSL and all their well wishers! ❤❤❤❤❤❤

©Cochin Shipyard Ltd

01/07/2021

Cochin Port registered the total throughput of 7.72 MMT in 2021-22 (Apr–Jun), a growth of 37.06% over the corresponding period of 2020-21, when the COVID-19 pandemic had seriously impacted the throughput. POL throughput registered 4.58 MMT and Container throughput, 1.59 Lakh TEUs in 2021-22 (Apr–Jun), growing respectively by 29.15% & 41.06% over corresponding period of 2020-21.

25/06/2021

Dr. M. Beena IAS, Chairman, Cochin Port Trust welcomes Shri Rajnath Singh, Hon'ble Raksha Mantri who arrived at Ernakulam Wharf of Cochin Port to visit the Indigenous Aircraft Carrier being built by Cochin Shipyard for Indian Navy.

03/06/2021

Cochin Port registered a throughput of 5.17 MMT in Apr-May 2021, a growth of 51.60% over the same period of 2020 when the pandemic had severely impacted Port business. POL & container handling registered 36.86% and 60.20% growth respectively over the corresponding period of 2020.

26/05/2021

Happy 93rd Cochin Port Day !! ❣️🎉🎊

It was on this day, a whopping 93 years ago, that the first ever vessel entered inside the modern port after the channel was widened and deepened, marking the beginning of modern Kochi port ! 😍

From then to now the port has become one of the most important multidimensional ports in the country, with huge growth and prominence in shipbuilding and maintenance, cargo handling, bunkering etc 👏

Here's the timeline of the some of the most important incidents in the port's rich history :
- 1341 : Closure of the ancient port of Muziris and widening of Cochin Gut
- 1859 : Arrival of Captain Castor, first Port Officer
- 1870 : Aspinwall's memorandum suggesting developing a sheltered harbour in Cochin
- 1921 : Approval for experimental dredging
- May, 1926 : Commissioning of dredger "Lord Willingdon'
- 26 May, 1928 : First vessel crosses the channel and enters the harbour - SS Padma of Bombay Steam Navigation Co., commanded by Capt. Bullen
- 1 August, 1936 : Administration of Cochin Harbour taken over by the Government of India under the Major Port Trusts Act
- 24 February, 1964 : Cochin Port Trust constituted
- 1994-95 : Dedicated container handling facility 'Rajiv Gandhi Container Terminal' commissioned
- 2007-08 : Offshore Crude Oil handling facility (SBM) commissioned
- 2010-11 : Commencement of first phase of International Container Transshipment Terminal, Vallarpadam with 1 million TEU capacity
- 2012-13 : LNG Regasification Terminal commissioned
- 2020 : India's first full fledged cruise terminal constructed

The port's future is looking very bright now, with the ICTT looking good for expansion, plans for deepening the channel to allow motherships, the GAIL pipelines from the port becoming operational and Kochi becoming the node of the national industrial corridor considering the major port here. ❤️

20/05/2021

Samudrika cruise terminal of Cochin port is converted to a 100 bedded Covid care hospital.

16/02/2021