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Chennai (Madras) Port — India

Data refreshed 2026-10-11T20:35:08Z · quarterly refresh cycle

Chennai (Madras), India is a SIP-class port in India, tracked by IMF PortWatch with 1,329 vessels at last extraction.

1,329 vessels tracked on the day of extraction

Sources: Kpler; UN Global Platform; IMF PortWatch (portwatch.imf.org).

Vessel composition by class

Shares below cover vessels with a reported class; the total also includes vessels without one.

Container: 360

Dry bulk: 172

General cargo: 329

RoRo: 49

Tanker: 418

Share of India maritime trade

Maritime imports: 1.81%

Maritime exports: 1.90%

Top industries served

Mining and Quarrying
Petroleum, Chemical and Non-Metallic Mineral Products
Metal Products

Port record

Coordinates	13.1005N, 80.2943E
Port class	SIP
Continent	Asia & Pacific

Nearby high-activity ports in India

Mumbai (bonbay) · 3,946 Kandla · 2,288 Vishakhapatnam · 1,655

Data provenance

Source query: https://services9.arcgis.com/weJ1QsnbMYJlCHdG/arcgis/rest/services/PortWatch_ports/FeatureServer/1/query?where=1%3D1&outFields=%2A&f=json

Extracted 2026-10-11T20:35:08Z; field-subset of the published PortWatch ports layer (geometry omitted). Field-subset of the published PortWatch ports layer; point geometry dropped, lat/long kept as attributes.

Port data — Sources: Kpler; UN Global Platform; IMF PortWatch (portwatch.imf.org). Reused under the IMF Copyright & Usage terms. Fields subsetted (geometry omitted); see our data sources note. The IMF is not affiliated with and does not endorse ExportSonar.