Common Routes and Cargoes

A summary of common transported dry cargo and some of the typical sea routes in Persian Gulf/ Indian ocean/ SE Asia region for handy, supramax, panamax & cape size ships highlighting key trade patterns and major ports.


COMMON CARGOES (dry bulk/ bagged/ breakbulk)

Aggregates Bauxite
Coking coal / Steam coal/ Petcoke / Metcoke Iron Ore Fines/ Iron ore Lumps/ Iron ore Pellets/ DRI/ HBI
Cement / Cement Clinker Sugar / Raw sugar
Sulphur Urea / DAP / MOP
Gypsum Limestone / Dolomite
Salt Rock Phosphate
Bagged Rice / Soybean Meal (SBM)/ Maize (corn) / Wheat / Pigeon Peas & other grains Steel Billets, Steel coils, Steel pipes & Generals And more..

Common Routes

Routes Usual Cargo Usual Loading Port (s) Usual Discharge Port (s)
PG (Persian Gulf) ~ WCI (West coast India) limestone, clinker, aggregate, cement mina saqr, fujairah, jebel ali, dammam, jubail kandla, mundra, pipavav, mumbai, dharamtar, bedi, jaigad, mormugao, cochin, mangalore
PG (Persian Gulf) ~ ECI (East coast India) limestone, clinker, aggregate, cement mina saqr, fujairah, jebel ali, dammam, jubail tuticorin, chennai, visakhapatnam, gangavaram, krishnapatnam, karaikal, paradip, kolkata, haldia
Oman ~ WC India gypsum, limestone, urea salalah , sohar, sur kandla, mundra, pipavav, mumbai, dharamtar, bedi, jaigad, mormugao, cochin
Oman ~ EC India gypsum, limestone, urea salalah , sohar, sur tuticorin, chennai, visakhapatnam, gangavaram, krishnapatnam, karaikal, paradip, kolkata, haldia
IRAN ~ WC India gypsum, urea, sulphur, clinker, iron ore pellets bab, barco, bik, chabahar, qesham, asaluyeh, sarooj kandla, mundra, pipavav, mumbai, dharamtar, bedi, jaigad, mormugao, cochin
IRAN ~ EC India gypsum, urea, sulphur, clinker, iron ore pellets bab, barco, bik, chabahar, qesham, asaluyeh, sarooj tuticorin, chennai, visakhapatnam, gangavaram, krishnapatnam, karaikal, paradip, kolkata, haldia
Red Sea ~ WC India Rock Phosphate, Clinker, Petcoke Aqaba, safaga, hamrawein, ain sukhna, yanbu, king abdullah, jeddah kandla, mundra, pipavav, mumbai, dharamtar, bedi, jaigad, mormugao, cochin
Red Sea ~ EC India Rock Phosphate, Clinker, Petcoke Aqaba, safaga, hamrawein, ain sukhna, yanbu, king abdullah, jeddah tuticorin, chennai, visakhapatnam, gangavaram, krishnapatnam, karaikal, paradip, kolkata, haldia
WC India ~ China Iron Ore, Bauxite, Salt kandla, jakhau, jaigad, okha, porbandar, mormugao, mangalore Tianjin, Caofedian, Xingang, Qingdao, Longkou, Yantai, Weihai, Rizhao, Lanshan, Dafeng, Lianyungang, CJK, Ningbo, Zhenjiang, Baoshan, Nantong, Jiangyin, Nanjing, Fuzhou, Zhanjiang, Xiamen, Fangcheng
EC India ~ China Iron Ore, Bauxite, Salt visakhapatnam, gangavaram, krishnapatnam, dhamra, paradip, gopalpur, kolkata, haldia Tianjin, Caofedian, Xingang, Qingdao, Longkou, Yantai, Weihai, Rizhao, Lanshan, Dafeng, Lianyungang, CJK, Ningbo, Zhenjiang, Baoshan, Nantong, Jiangyin, Nanjing, Fuzhou, Zhanjiang, Xiamen, Fangcheng
PG ~ Bangladesh / Sri Lanka Clinker, Aggregate, Limestone, Urea mina saqr, fujairah, jebel ali Chittagong, Mongla, Payra, Trincomalee, Colombo, Hambantot
Indonesia ~ EC India Coal Banda Aceh, Palembang, Meulaboh, Taboneo, Banjarmasin, Maura Berau, Muara Asam Asam, NPLCT, Balikpapan, Samarinda, Muara Pantai, Bontang, Muara Sabak (Jambi), Tanjung Bara, Bahudopi tuticorin, ennore, visakhapatnam, gangavaram, krishnapatnam, karaikal, paradip, kolkata, haldia, kakinada, gopalpur, dhamra
Indonesia ~ WC India Coal Banda Aceh, Palembang, Meulaboh, Taboneo, Banjarmasin, Maura Berau, Muara Asam Asam, NPLCT, Balikpapan, Samarinda, Muara Pantai, Bontang, Muara Sabak (Jambi), Tanjung Bara, Bahudopi kandla, navlakhi, mundra, salaya, bedi, pipavav, muldwarka, porbandar, okha, mumbai, dharamtar, hazira, dahej, bhavnagar, mormugao, cochin, mangalore
Africa ~ WC India Coal, Pigeon peas, manganese ore Richards Bay (RBCT), Durban, Port Elizabeth, Saldanha Bay, Beira, Nacala, Mtwara kandla, navlakhi, mundra, salaya, bedi, pipavav, muldwarka, porbandar, okha, mumbai, dharamtar, hazira, dahej, bhavnagar, mormugao, cochin, mangalore
Africa ~ EC India Coal, Pigeon peas, manganese ore Richards Bay (RBCT), Durban, Port Elizabeth, Saldanha Bay, Beira, Nacala, Mtwara tuticorin, ennore, visakhapatnam, gangavaram, krishnapatnam, karaikal, paradip, kolkata, haldia, kakinada, gopalpur, dhamra
WC India ~ West / East Africa Bagged rice, wheat, sugar kandla Maputo, Beira, Mombasa, Nacala, Mozambique, Dar Es Salam, Zanjibar, Tamatave, Tulear, Ehoala, Luanda, Douala, Lagos, Cotonou, Lome, Tema, Abidjan, Conakry, Dakar
EC India ~ West / East Africa Bagged rice, wheat, sugar kakinada, visakhapatnam, krishnapatnam, kolkata, haldia Maputo, Beira, Mombasa, Nacala, Mozambique, Dar Es Salam, Zanjibar, Tamatave, Tulear, Ehoala, Luanda, Douala, Lagos, Cotonou, Lome, Tema, Abidjan, Conakry, Dakar
Vietnam / Indonesia ~ Bangladesh Clinker, Coal Campha, Ho Chi Minh, Hai Phong Chittagong, Mongla, Payra And more..