Enayam Port

Tamil Research Institute
RAPID TECHNO-ECONOMIC FEASIBILITY REPORT FOR
DEVELOPMENT OF COLACHEL PORT AT TAMILNADU
FINAL REPORT
3. Gateway cargo
Enayam is Traffic also expected projections: to capture the Colachel existing gateway has cargo potential from hinterland, to capture for which 0.3-0.6 Enayam will now be
the closest/ most cost efficient shipping point (figure below)
Mn TEUs gateway traffic through hinterland projects by 2030
Estimated hinterland gateway
traffic
Estimated Colachel's
potential share
Projection of gateway to
gateway cargo
Hinterland gateway traffic
Base Case
Container traffic in '000 TEUs
4,000
3,974
461
3,000
2,848
330
3,267
379
2,176
2,000 1,789
252
207
3,513
2,889
2,518
1,000
1,924
1,582
0
2020 2022 2025 2027 2030
Primary Hinterland
Secondary Hinterland
High traffic share in the primary
hinterland
• Based on feasibility of shipping
cargo through Colachel
X
X
60-70% of
primary
hinterland
Colachel cheapest option due to
large size vessels
~5% of
secondary
hinterland
Fragmented cargo without access to
a ship through other port would
come to Colachel
Gateway traffic (in MnTEU)
0.6
0.5
0.4
0.3
0.2
0.2
0.2
Projections of gateway to
gateway container traffic
0.3
0.2
0.2
Conservative
Base
Aggressive
0.4
0.3
0.2
0.5
0.4
0.3
0.6
0.5
0.3
0.0
2020 2025 2030
Figure 74: Gateway to gateway traffic projections for Enayam
Overall traffic estimates for container cargo after combining the trans-shipment traffic projection and gateway
traffic projection Overall is estimated traffic to estimates reach 5.9 Mn TEUs for container by 2030. The cargo figure below – estimated summarises the to container traffic
projections for Enayam.
reach 5.9 Mn TEUs by 2030
Container traffic in Mn TEUs
8
Base Case
Trans-shipment cargo
Gateway cargo
6.7
6
5.6
4.9
3.9
4
3.0
2.8
3.2
2
0
1.7
0.7
1.0
2020
1.4
1.6
2022
2.1
2.4
2025 2027
2030
2.9
Figure 75: Container traffic projections for Enayam
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