8.1 Data Availability and Sources of Port Statistics, Shipping Statistics and Inland Water Transport Statistics

A. Port Statistics
- Data availability
  - Port wise, commodity-wise capacity availability at major ports
  - Performance of cargo handling equipments at major ports
  - Time series data on port wise cargo traffic handled by major ports
  - Port wise overseas and coastal traffic; import and export by country of origin and by country of destination for major ports
  - Port wise time series data on passenger traffic at major ports
  - Port wise container traffic - commodity wise and handling facilities for major ports
  - Port wise data on performance for selected indicators such as average pre-berthing delay, average turn round time by type, percentage of idle time at berth by port, average berth occupancy, utilisation of cargo handling equipments at major ports
  - Time series data - port wise on employment, revenue and expenditure, net and operating surplus, operating ratio, income, cost, surplus or deficit per tonne of cargo handled for major ports
  - State-wise, commodity wise cargo and passenger traffic handled at minor and intermediate ports; overseas cargo handled by vessel ownership type
  - Physical performance indicators for minor ports
  - State wise data on employment at minor ports
  - Minor port-wise equipments available
- Sources
  - Annual Administrative Report of Major Ports and Minor Ports
  - Maritime states for Minor Ports Data
  - Container Corporation of India
  - India Ports Association
  - Monthly Bulletin of Statistics
B. Shipping Statistics
- Data availability
  - Indian fleet of coastal and overseas ships by age, type
  - Indian Shipping Tonnage – Age Profile – Shipping Corporation of India (SCI) and others
  - Fleet owned by SCI – by type
  - Share of fleet owned by SCI
  - Growth of Indian shipping since independence
  - Share of Indian Tonnage – Time series
  - Growth of Indian Tonnage – Time series
  - Growth of Indian Fleet - by type, size, age
  - Growth of Indian Fleet - by company
  - Net addition to Indian Shipping Fleet - overseas and coastal
  - Financial Statistics of SCI
  - Vessels, fixtures arranged and cargo handled by Trans chart
  - Number of ships and quantity of cargo lifted by Indian Shipping Lines fixed by Trans chart
  - Profitability of Indian Shipping Companies - by company and ship owner
  - Book value of fleet – by company and ship owner
  - Foreign exchange earnings and savings of Indian Shipping Companies
  - Tanker freight rates - single voyage rates
  - Dry bulk cargo freight rates
  - World Sea borne trade etc.
  - Ship building capacity of the company - by type and size, by company
  - Ship order position - by type of vessels
  - Ships under different stages of construction - company wise
- Sources
  - Major Ports (for overseas trade)
  - Directorate General of Shipping
  - Shipping Companies
  - Lloyd’s Register -World Fleet Statistics
  - Lloyd’s Register Shipping - Statistical Tables
  - Indian Oil Corporation
C. Inland Water Transport (IWT) Statistics
- Data availability
  - State wise total length of important rivers and navigable length
  - Water resources potential in the river basins of India and utilization
  - State wise details of inland water resources of various types
  - Time series data on income and expenditure of Central Inland Water Transport Corporation (CIWTC)
  - Cargo carried and freight earned tonne-km performed by CIWTC at disaggregated level of commodity
  - Source wise earnings of CIWTC
  - Financial position of CIWTC – liabilities, assets, working capital
  - Volume of cargo and number of passengers carried and freight/fare collected by companies
  - Plan wise outlay and expenditure etc.
- Sources
  - State IWT Directorates
  - Shipping Companies
  - IWT Companies
  - Central Water Commission
  - Central Inland Water Transport Corporation
  - Inland Waterways Authority of India
  - Annual Bulletin of Transport Statistics for Europe and North America