11 Facts About Cochin Port

Cochin Port or Kochi Port is a major port on the Arabian Sea – Laccadive Sea – Indian Ocean sea-route in the city of Kochi and is one of the largest ports in India.

The International Container Transshipment Terminal, part of the Cochin Port, is the largest container transshipment facility in India.

Kochi Cochin Port is one of a line of maritime-related facilities based in the port-city of Kochi.

Idea of establishing a modern port in Cochin was first posited by Lord Willingdon during his governorship of the Madras Province.

Cochin Port selected the newly joined Sir Robert Bristow, a leading British harbour engineer, to head the project, and Bristow became chief engineer of Kochi Kingdom's Port Department in 1920.

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Cochin Port believed that Kochi could become the safest harbour in India if the ships could enter the inner channel.

Cochin Port addressed the immediate problem of Vypeen foreshore's erosion by building granite groynes that were nearly parallel with the shore and overlapped each other.

In 2022, following the introduction of the Major Port Authorities Act 2021 superseding the Major Port Trusts Act 1963, Cochin Port Trust got renamed to Cochin Port Authority thereby adopting a new logo.

Cochin Port Trust is an autonomous body under the government of India and is managed by Board of Trustees constituted by the government.

Entrance to the Port of Cochin is through the Cochin Gut between the peninsular headland Vypeen and Fort Kochi.

The approach channel to the Cochin Port Gut is about 1000-metre long with a designed width of 200 meters and maintained dredged depth of 13.