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Five ports. One coast for every corridor.
Adalwin Global routes hospitality-textile programmes through five Indian container ports — JNPA (Nhava Sheva) and Mundra on the Arabian Sea, Pipavav as the west-coast overflow, and Chennai plus V.O. Chidambaranar (Tuticorin) on the Bay of Bengal. Each one is matched to the manufacturing corridor that feeds it best.
Corridor → port routing
India’s textile corridors are specialist. So are the ports that serve them.
The corridor-to-port map is not a choice; it’s a consequence of geography and rail logistics. Every programme we ship follows this routing unless the buyer’s forwarder specifies otherwise.
West coast · Arabian Sea
The west-coast ports handle the vast majority of India's hospitality-textile exports. JNPA and Mundra run the densest sailing schedules and serve the biggest buyer markets — US East, UK, EU, Middle East — on direct strings.
JNPA / Nhava Sheva
INNSANavi Mumbai, Maharashtra · Major (public)
India's flagship container port on the Arabian Sea — the default FOB lane for West- and South-bound textile programmes.
- Annual TEU
- ~6.4 million TEU/year
- Berths
- 5 container terminals, 11 berths
- Corridors fed
- Solapur · Mumbai-Pune belt · Panipat (via rail)
Mundra
INMUNMundra, Gujarat · Major (private)
India's largest commercial port by volume — the default FOB lane for Panipat and NCR-origin bed-linen programmes.
- Annual TEU
- ~7.0 million TEU/year
- Berths
- 2 terminals (MICT, CT-3), 13 berths
- Corridors fed
- Panipat (via DFC) · Karur (via long-haul road) · Ahmedabad / Surat
Pipavav
INPAVRajula, Gujarat · Major (private)
Gujarat's second private container port — used as the overflow lane when Mundra sailing slots are tight.
- Annual TEU
- ~1.0 million TEU/year
- Berths
- 1 container terminal, 2 berths
- Corridors fed
- Ahmedabad / Surat · Panipat (via rail)
East coast · Bay of Bengal
The east-coast ports handle South Indian textile corridors — Karur table, Erode spa, Tirupur knits — and the best India-to-Australia / Southeast Asia lanes. Chennai is the primary container gateway; VOC Tuticorin is the deep-south complement when Chennai is congested or Colombo transhipment is the cleaner routing.
Chennai
INMAAChennai, Tamil Nadu · Major (public)
India's oldest artificial harbour and the east-coast lane for Karur, Erode and Tirupur-origin textile programmes.
- Annual TEU
- ~1.6 million TEU/year (excl. Kamarajar)
- Berths
- 2 container terminals, 6 berths
- Corridors fed
- Karur · Erode · Tirupur
VOC Tuticorin
INTUTThoothukudi (Tuticorin), Tamil Nadu · Major (public)
India's deep-south container port — the complementary east-coast lane when Chennai is congested or Colombo transhipment is the cleaner routing.
- Annual TEU
- ~750K – 900K TEU/year
- Berths
- 1 dedicated container terminal (NCT, PSA SICAL) plus multi-purpose capacity
- Corridors fed
- Tirunelveli / Tuticorin belt · Erode (via Madurai) · Karur (via long-haul road)
We quote the port on the invoice.
Every RFQ comes back with a recommended loading port, a transit window to your destination, and a carrier shortlist. If your forwarder has a preferred string, we book to that.