THESIS PROPOSAL

HARBOUR
 AQUA DISPLAY AND RESEARCH CENTRE
INTRODUCTION
 A harbour is a safe providing refuge and comfort for ship, a harbour is a sheltered port area
shielded from waves, where it’s safe to dock.
 A harbour is a body of water sheltered by natural or artificial barriers.
 A harbour may be natural or partly dug out, or even made with floating materials. It doesn’t
have gates, but may have a narrow entrance.
AIMS
 Harbours have played an important role in civilization ever since people began using boats
and ships at sea.
 Harbours serves as important transportation hubs that facilitate goods movement to business
in local communities and worldwide markets.
 Harbours are important for the support of economic activities in the hinterland since they act
as a crucial connection between sea and land transport. It not only serves an economic but
also a social function.
OBJECTIVES
 A harbour is deep enough to keep ships from touching bottom and should give ships and
boats enough rooms to turn and pass each other.
 Transportation and commercial activities are usually dominant but there are also residential,
recreational, traditional and spiritual activities that all essentially focus on a harbour.
REQUIRMENTS
 Entrance Channels
 Berthing Basin
 Break Water
 Turning Basin
 Pier Head
 Wharves
 Jetties
 Quays and Wharves
 Docks
 Slipways
 Buoys
 Other go downs, shed, lights, fire protection towards..
CASE STUDIES
 Cochin Port – Kochi, Kerala
 Xandari Harbour – Kochi, Kerala
 Mormugao Harbour – Mormugao, Goa
 V.O Chidambaranar Port - Thoothukudi
SITE LOCATION

Connectivity of the site

Site area – 37 Acres
Site location – Colachel Harbour Road, Colachel,
Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu.

SCOPE
 The port is proposed at Colachel, 19 km away from Nagercoil, capital of Kanyakumari
District.
 The proposed Colachel International Seaport is just four nautical miles from International
Shipping Lane.
 Large container ships called mother vessels need about 18 meters of water depth.
 Colachel is already a natural harbour with water is about 20 meters deep.