Essar Ports' Vadinar Oil Terminal Ltd (VOTL) contributed 27.8 million tonnes cargo in 2015-16 to help Kandla Port Trust cross 100 million tonnes of throughput for the first time in the last fiscal.
"The VOTL has been the best performing terminal in the Kandla Port Trust (KPT) for two consecutive years. The terminal recently received a certificate of appreciation from KPT," Essar Group said in a press release.
VOTL is an integrated oil terminal located in Vadinar, Gujarat with 58 million tonnes capacity and handles crude oil and petroleum products.
The facilities consist of an offshore SPM (Single Point Mooring), two jetties, 3.12 Million KL tankages for storage, and rail and road gantries for dispatch of petroleum products.
VOTL is a double five star rated terminal by British Safety Council and winner of Sword of Honour - one of the highest accolades in relation to health & safety highlighting its state of the art operations and facilities.
In FY16, the marine terminal had a throughput of 27.8 million tonnes, and handled 330 vessels, with an average turnaround time of just 1.95 days, the company said.
The only other terminal operator that came close was Indian Oil, which recorded a throughput of 24.6 million tonnes.
VOTL's marine terminal receives almost 85 per cent of the crude requirement of Essar Oil's 20 million tonne refinery in Vadinar. At the same time, over 65 per cent of the petro products produced in the refinery are exported from the terminal.
Fiscal 2016 was a productive year for VOTL as a whole with the company recording an overall throughput-which includes cargo handled both by the marine terminal as well as road and rail gantries of 38.42 million tonnes.
