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Main Criteria:
Navlakhi is an all-weather roadstead Port. It is situated in the Gulf of Kutch on the west coast of India.

Current port capacity:
0.9 mln tones;

Trade estimate 2010:
3.0 mln tones;

Marine Features:

• MHWS – 7.20 meters
• MHWN – 6.20 meters
• MLWS – 0.80 meters
• MLWN – 2.10 meters
• MSL – 4.20 meters

Latitude    : 22° 58' 25" N
Longitude : 70° 27' 24" E

Charts :

Admiralty 43
Indian Naval Hydrographic : 2017

Pilotage :

Pilotage is not compulsory at the Port upto a draft of 9.14 Mtrs. For a draft of more than 9.14 Mtrs. Local Pilotage guide is necessary from Tunna buoy.

Anchorage

About 5.5 Kms. Offshore, two vessels can work at a time. Depth at anchorage varies between 9.00 to 12.5 Meters. Lighters can move between shore and Ship throughout the day. There is anchorage of 1.6 Kms. South-eastward of Nawinar Lighthouse with a depth of 10 to 12 Meters.

Facilities:

• Private barges arranged by port users enable handling of 10,000 to 15,000 metric tonnes of cargo per day.
• Storage Facilities:

• Open plots around: 1,19,420 sq. mtrs.
• Platforms around: 17,800 sq. mtrs
• Covered godowns are available

• Lighterage with one anchor buoy – permissible draft 13.5m - at 5.5 miles from the port.
  Deeper drafted vessels – permissible draft 16 m are lightened at the outer-reach 29 miles from the port;33 Self-propelled barges (500-1800 tonnes) and one privately owned lighter jetty with 5 berths (length 102 meters);
• The port’s passenger jetty and storage area were damaged during the 1998 cyclone and are still not repaired;
• Tug : 01 No.
• Launch : 01 No.
• Crane : 02 Nos.

Planned Activities:

• At Navlakhi M/s United Shippers Ltd., M/s Dharmsi Morarji & Co.,and M/s Jaydeep Associates have been allotted to create private jetty for handling of cargo at their cost, of which one deep-water lighterage jetty of 102 m. has been constructed by M/s U.S.L and has been operational since March 2000.
• A lighter wharf of 76.5 m. on Sui Creek has been allotted to M/s Jaydeep Associate Ltd. The Company had renovated the wharf and put it in operation since January 2004.
• GMB has prepared a master plan for Navlakhi through consultants, to construct it as per international standards. As per the master plan, new berthing facilities by providing RCC Jetty is completed and the works of  internal roads, stacking platforms with compound wall is in progress and auto sprinkling system, fire-fighting system, shore protection water supply facilities etc. are to be developed. The approximate cost of the project will be Rs. 63 crore.
• Infrastructure:
  Navlakhi is connected to morbid by road and the national Highway.
  It is connected by broad gauge railway line with the rest of India via Maliya.
  The nearest airport is at Rajkot

Commodities Handled:
Import: Coal, Flourspar and Pig Iron.

 
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