Description : The Port is administered by a statutory autonomous body known as the Cochin Port Trust. The Cochin Port is the south Indian major port on the threshold of a major growth phase. The Chairman, Dy. Chairman and 17 other Trustees representing various interests inter-linked with the port such as shipping agents, shippers, labour, customs, state government etc. constitute the board which looks after the administration of the Port. Facilities offered by the Port are, berths for handling cargo and passenger ships, cargo handling equipments, storage accommodation, dry dock, bunkering facilities, fisheries harbour etc.


The Port of Cochin is located on the Willingdon Island at latitude 9 degree 58' north and longitude 76 degree 14' east on the south west coast of India about 930 k.m. south of Bombay and 320 k.m. north of Kanyakumari.
Administrative Building Cochin Port Trust
The entrance to Port is through the Cochin Gut between the peninsular headland Vypeen and Fort Cochin. The port limits extend up to the entire backwaters and the connecting creeks and channels.
The approach channel upto the Cochin Gut, is only 10 km. long with a designed width of 200m and maintained dredged depth of 13.8 M.