Dharamtar


Dharamtar port is on the right bank of the Amba river and is from its mouth. Approximately from Wadkhal village on NH-17. The port is from the state highway that runs through Pen to Alibag and is away from National Highway 17. The port is also adjacent to Mumbai–Goa–Konkan railway line with an approved rail siding. It is a tri-modal port with rail.
It is away from Nhava Sheva with road and sea links, to Nhava Sheva and Mumbai ports in Maharashtra, India.

Services

Some of the services it offers are container transportation by sea/road, bulk and break bulk cargo transport by sea/road, warehousing and distribution for all commodities, CFS facility, customs-notified warehousing, empty container management, container repairs and customs clearance.
Dharamtar Infrastructure Ltd., a joint venture company of United Shippers Ltd. and PNP Maritime Services Pvt. Ltd., which runs Dharamtar port have signed a cooperation agreement with The Indira Container Terminal Pvt. Ltd. for cargoes handled at ICT terminals.

Transport

Dharamtar port is a tri-modal port with focus on logistics engineering.
It handles container transportation as well as bulk and break bulk transportation by road, sea and rail. Dharamtar port also carries out transshipment of containers. It is known for providing special scheduled barge services using the Inland water mode.
As far as the pier of this port the creek is at all times navigable. Steamers up to 200 tons can approach this port. Dharamtar upstream navigation is difficult. At ordinary high tides, boats of 15 tons, and at spring tides boats of 25 tons can go to Nagothana, east.
Steamer services ply daily between Mumbai and Dharamtar.

Warehousing

The port has warehousing and distribution for all commodities.

Rail siding

Dharamtar port, with its ongoing rail siding development will soon be able to handle cargo across the regions. In future, a sizeable portion of Dharamtar's container transportation as well as bulk and break bulk transport will be carried by rail transport.

Dharamtar Creek

On the eastern side of the Mumbai harbour entrance lies the Dharamtar creek of the river Amba, which is formed by confluence of Amba river, Karanja creek and Patalganga River on the west coast of Maharashtra.
Dharamtar creek maintains rich zooplankton standing stock with peak production during August–November. Zooplankton production rate for the entire system amounted to 10.32 mg C.100 m/3 d/1 with an annual turnover of 29 ton C.km/2.