Hold Cleaning at Magdalla Port
Holds ready for the next fixture at Magdalla Port — short tide-bound windows on the Tapi estuary.
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Cleanship Marine cleans cargo holds at Magdalla Port (INMDA), Gujarat — shore gangs alongside, riding crews on the passage out, and IRATA rope access teams for the upper hold. The standard is the one the next fixture demands, and the residue and washings are disposed of to MARPOL Annex V rather than left with the master.
Magdalla is Surat's older river port on the Tapi, handling coal, steel and general cargo for the local industrial belt alongside the deeper terminals at Hazira. Traffic is smaller tonnage on short coastal and regional voyages rather than liner or deep-sea calls.
Working conditions at Magdalla
Work here runs both alongside and at anchorage depending on the call, and on the passage out where neither gives enough time. 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
- River jetties · Outer anchorage
- Vessels we see here
- Handysize bulk carriers · General cargo ships · Coastal tankers
Hold Cleaning scopes at Magdalla
3 scopes, one team and one mobilisation. Most vessels calling here take more than one on the same attendance.
Planning the window at Magdalla
The south-west monsoon governs the calendar at Magdalla Port, roughly June to September. Swell and reduced surface visibility close most open-water work on this coast for the duration, and the weeks either side are unreliable rather than unusable. Some vessels sit and some turn straight round, so the plan is agreed against the actual call rather than a standard package: a shore gang alongside where there is time, a riding crew on the outward passage where there is not.
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 Magdalla
Scrap and steel are the difficult residues at Magdalla rather than the bulk: loose metal, cut wire and dunnage in the frames and bilge wells, which has to be picked out by hand before any washing is worth starting. Holds here are smaller, which at least keeps the job proportionate to the tonnage.
The standing residues at Magdalla Port are coal, steel and scrap, timber — the dusty, abrasive kind that films every surface and packs into frames, brackets and the tank-top margins. Anything following into a clean or food-grade cargo needs the full sequence: sweep, wash, rinse and dry, not a hose down.
How we deliver it at Magdalla
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Scope and vessel details
Tell us the vessel, her particulars, the last and next cargo and the window at Magdalla. 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 and working approval is arranged with Gujarat Maritime Board and the terminal, and the disposal route for residues and washings is fixed before the gang boards — MARPOL Annex V compliance is a documented chain at Magdalla, not an assurance. Where reception is limited, the plan changes rather than the paperwork.
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Mobilisation to Magdalla
Gangs, pumps, chemicals and equipment mobilise via Surat (STV) or Vadodara (BDQ). Where a vessel is also calling at Hazira, 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.
Magdalla Port at a glance
- UN/LOCODE
- INMDA
- Port type
- State Port
- State
- Gujarat
- Country
- India
- Water body
- Tapi estuary, Gulf of Khambhat
- Port authority
- Gujarat Maritime Board
- Main cargoes
- Coal, Steel and scrap, Timber, Edible oil, General cargo
- Crew mobilisation
- Surat (STV) / Vadodara (BDQ)
- Services here
- Hull Cleaning, Hold Cleaning and Tank Cleaning
Frequently asked — Magdalla Port
Does Cleanship provide hold cleaning at Magdalla Port?
Yes. We cover the full hold cleaning scope at Magdalla Port (INMDA), 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 Magdalla — alongside, at anchorage or on passage?
Work here runs both alongside and at anchorage depending on the call, and on the passage out where neither gives enough time.
Who approves hold cleaning work at Magdalla?
Gujarat Maritime Board issues the port-side approval at Magdalla 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 Magdalla?
Handysize bulk carriers, General cargo ships and Coastal tankers — Magdalla Port is short tide-bound windows on the Tapi estuary, handling coal, steel and scrap, timber, edible oil, general cargo. Those are the profiles we see most, and the scope is sized to the vessel rather than to a standard package.
Can this be done without taking the vessel off hire at Magdalla?
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 Magdalla?
Yes. Hazira, Dahej and Bhavnagar 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 45 ports on the coverage list for this line.
Hold Cleaning at Magdalla Port.
Tell us the vessel, her ETA at Magdalla and the window. You get a scope, a crew size and an honest duration — usually the same working day.