Gujarat · INHZR

Hold Cleaning at Hazira Port

Holds ready for the next fixture at Hazira Port — tight terminal windows on the outer Gulf of Khambhat.

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Tell us the vessel, the port and the window. Scoped reply, usually the same working day.

Cleanship Marine cleans cargo holds at Hazira Port (INHZR), Gujarat — shore gangs alongside, riding crews on the passage out, and IRATA rope access teams for the upper hold. Hazira feeds a steel plant, so the residues are ore fines, coke and scrap dust, and the holds usually come back to a steel raw material cargo rather than a clean one. That lowers the standard required and raises the value of working it into the discharge sequence.

Working conditions at Hazira

Work here starts alongside, and where the berth window runs out it continues on the outward passage with a riding crew — the berth will not be held open for it. The south-west monsoon sets the outer limits of the calendar, roughly June to September, and it affects the anchorage far more than the berth. Access approval runs through Gujarat Maritime Board and the terminal, and the disposal route for residues and washings is fixed before the gang boards rather than found afterwards.

Where we work: Container terminal · Steel raw material berths · LNG jetty
Vessels we see here: Container ships · Bulk carriers · LNG carriers · Car carriers

Hold Cleaning scopes at Hazira

3 scopes, one team and one mobilisation. Most vessels calling here take more than one on the same attendance.

Planning the window at Hazira

The south-west monsoon governs the calendar at Hazira Port, roughly June to September. For hold work the wind matters less than the rain: holds cannot be washed, dried and closed in wet weather, and a hold shut up damp fails inspection however clean it looks. Turnaround here is quick and the berth will not be held open for cleaning, so the work is either sequenced hold by hold behind the discharge as each one empties, or handed to a riding crew to complete on the passage out. Waiting for all holds to be empty is waiting past the berth window.

Teams mobilise via Surat (STV) or Vadodara (BDQ), so give us the ETA as early as you have it — the travel is the flexible part, the approvals and the working window are not.

What we typically find at Hazira

This is container and unitised tonnage, so the scope is cell guides, hold bilges, bilge wells, tank tops and lashing gear rather than a bulk residue clean — steady maintenance work at height and in confined spaces, on ships that will not extend a berth window for it.

What we usually find here is a partial job already attempted: crew sweeping between grabs, with the frames, brackets and tank-top margins untouched because there was never the time to reach them. Those are exactly the places an inspection looks.

How we deliver it at Hazira

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Scope and vessel details
Tell us the vessel, her particulars, the last and next cargo and the window at Hazira. We come back with a defined scope, a crew size and a duration we will stand behind. Where the conditions here will not support what has been asked for, we say so at this stage rather than after mobilisation.
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Approvals and waste routing
Access at Hazira Port is the terminal operator's decision as much as Gujarat Maritime Board's, so both are in the approval chain from the start — a berth-side refusal discovered at the gangway costs the whole attendance. The disposal route for residues and washings is fixed before the gang boards — MARPOL Annex V compliance is a documented chain, not an assurance. Where reception at Hazira is limited, the plan changes rather than the paperwork.
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Mobilisation to Hazira
Gangs, pumps, chemicals and equipment mobilise via Surat (STV) or Vadodara (BDQ). Where a vessel is also calling at Magdalla, one mobilisation is normally sized to cover both.
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Entry, sequencing and the work
Enclosed-space entry runs to the vessel's own permit system, with a fresh gas test before every entry and after every break. Gas testing, standby cover and continuous supervision run throughout, and progress is reported hold by hold rather than only at the end.
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Report and handover
A completion report covering hold cleaning is issued with before-and-after imagery, hold by hold and anything found that you should know about. The findings are discussed with the vessel rather than emailed and forgotten.

Hazira Port at a glance

UN/LOCODE: INHZR
Port type: Private Port
State: Gujarat
Country: India
Water body: Gulf of Khambhat
Port authority: Gujarat Maritime Board
Main cargoes: Containers, Steel and steel raw materials, LNG, RoRo, Project cargo
Crew mobilisation: Surat (STV) / Vadodara (BDQ)
Services here: Hull Cleaning, Hold Cleaning and Tank Cleaning

Frequently asked — Hazira Port

Does Cleanship provide hold cleaning at Hazira Port?

Yes. We cover the full hold cleaning scope at Hazira Port (INHZR), Gujarat — cargo hold cleaning (shore gang), hold cleaning riding crew and rope access hold cleaning. Teams mobilise via Surat (STV) or Vadodara (BDQ).

Where is the work done at Hazira — alongside, at anchorage or on passage?

Work here starts alongside, and where the berth window runs out it continues on the outward passage with a riding crew — the berth will not be held open for it.

Who approves hold cleaning work at Hazira?

Gujarat Maritime Board issues the port-side approval at Hazira Port, with terminal approval on top where the berth requires it. We arrange both, along with the waste reception and disposal route, so it does not fall to the agent or the master.

Which vessels call at Hazira?

Container ships, Bulk carriers, LNG carriers and Car carriers — Hazira Port is tight terminal windows on the outer Gulf of Khambhat, handling containers, steel and steel raw materials, LNG, RoRo, project cargo. What sizes a hold job is the number of holds, the last cargo and the standard the next fixture demands — not the vessel's dimensions.

Can this be done without taking the vessel off hire at Hazira?

Yes — that is the point of it. Every scope listed here is carried out with the vessel afloat and working, at the berth, at the anchorage or on the passage out. Shore gangs work alongside or at anchorage and riding crews finish on the passage, so no port time is spent on cleaning and the vessel is never off hire.

Do you cover other ports near Hazira?

Yes. Magdalla, Dahej and Mundra all sit within the same operating range for hold cleaning, and a single mobilisation is often sized to cover more than one vessel on the same trip. We work 63 ports on the coverage list for this line.

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