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Study of principal operational performance indicators of various indian ports for imported steam coal
(International Forum on Shipping, Ports and Airports (IFSPA), 2014-05) Bangar Raju, T.; Ramalingeswara Rao, B. V.
India being the largest importer of steam and it account for 54% of thermal energy in the country. The limitations of domestic production and supply have seen tremendous increase in imports of steam coal from Indonesia, south Africa and Australia . Understanding various bottlenecks and high costs which are incurring due to port congestion, poor infrastructure and poor port performance, there was a need to study port performance indicators for steam coal. From the literature survey, through number of studies were made to measure port performance indicators in general, but no specific research was made scientifically for specific bulk cargoes like steam coal. Therefore eight port performance indicators were taken based on UNCTAD guidelines and eleven east coast ports of India which handle steam coal were considered for study. This data for of these port performance indicators was collected and principal component analysis was done to reduce the eight variable from the research study it was found that port draft and berthing time efficiency played major role to reduce berthing time efficiency and ocean freight costs."