9-583: Mumbai Port Trust Railway (also known as the Bombay Port Trust Railway ) was commissioned on 1 January 1915. The railway line was being utilized for grain and fuel depots and feeding the containers at the Bombay Port . The port trust lines were not just used for conveying cargo, but also carry passengers and troops during World War II . In the 1920s and 1930s, the Ballard Pier Mole station on
18-435: A minimum draft of 7.0 metres (23.0 ft). Prince's Dock and Victoria Dock are semi-tidal docks, with vessels docking and departing at high tide. Indira Dock has a lock , enabling vessels to enter or depart at any time. The port has four jetties on Jawahar Dweep , an island in the harbour, for handling crude and petroleum products. These jetties have a draft of 12.2 metres (40 ft). Liquid chemicals are handled from
27-506: The Bombay Port ) is a port which lies midway on the west coast of India , on the natural deep-water Mumbai harbour in Maharashtra . The harbour spread over 400 square kilometres (150 sq mi) is protected by the mainland of Konkan to its east and north and by the island city of Mumbai to its west. The harbour opens to the south to the Arabian Sea . The port is administered by
36-709: The Mumbai Port Trust (MbPT, formerly the Bombay Port Trust (BPT)), an autonomous corporation wholly owned by the Government of India . The port is primarily used for bulk cargo, while most container traffic is directed to Nhava Sheva port across the harbour. Mumbai Harbour has been used by ships and boats for centuries. It was used by the Maratha Navy, as well as the British and Portuguese colonial navies. In 1652,
45-463: The 1870s. Bombay Port Trust (BPT) was established as a corporation on 26 June 1873. BPT's founding chairman was Colonel J.A. Ballard . Port development was undertaken by the civil engineering partnership Sir John Wolfe-Barry and Lt Col Arthur John Barry as Joint Consulting Engineers to the Bombay Port Trust at the end of the nineteenth century. From its establishment, the port has been
54-601: The Mumbai Port Trust Railway line was a starting point for the Frontier Mail which is now known as the Golden Temple Mail . In 1936, the company owned 26 locomotives and 684 goods wagons. The last steam locomotives were retired in 1976. This Indian rail transport related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Mumbai Port Trust Mumbai Port (also known as
63-801: The Surat Council of the East India Company, realising the geographical advantage of the Port, urged its purchase from the Portuguese. Their wish was gratified nine years later when, under the Marriage Treaty between Charles II of Great Britain and the Infant Catherine of Portugal, the ‘Port and Island of Bombay’ were transferred to the king of Great Britain The first of the present-day docks of the Port were built in
72-573: The establishment of the Nhava Sheva port across Mumbai Harbour in Navi Mumbai on the Konkan mainland. Nhava Sheva began operations in 1989, and most container traffic now flows through Nhava Sheva. With a minimum draft of 6.9 metres (23 ft). Victoria Dock, commissioned in 1891, had 14 berths as of 2008 with a minimum draft of 6.7 metres (22 ft). Indira Dock, commissioned in 1914, had 21 berths, with
81-417: The gateway to India, and was a primary factor in the emergence of Mumbai as the commercial capital of India. The port and the corporation took their present names in the 1990s. Over the decades, the port underwent tremendous expansion, with the addition of berths and cargo handling capacities. However, Mumbai's expanding growth and population pressure constrained the growth of the port by the 1970s. This led to
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