Gujarat · INJAK

Hull Cleaning at Jakhau Port

In-water hull, propeller and survey work at Jakhau Port — shallow tidal creek working on the Kutch coast.

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

Cleanship Marine provides the full underwater scope at Jakhau Port (INJAK), Gujarat — hull cleaning, propeller super polishing, bow and stern thruster work, class-approved in-water survey and UWILD. Every scope is carried out with the vessel afloat and on hire, at the berth or at the anchorage.

Jakhau is a minor Gujarat Maritime Board port on the Kutch coast, working fishing and small coastal traffic rather than deep-sea tonnage. Underwater work here is usually on support craft, barges and vessels lying off the coast, and it is most often taken as part of a wider Kutch mobilisation covering Mundra and Kandla in the same trip.

Working conditions at Jakhau

Jakhau is a small tidal creek port on the Kutch coast with limited depth alongside, so underwater work on anything larger than a workboat is normally done at the anchorage rather than inside the creek. The water is shallow, silty and strongly tidal, which keeps visibility low and ties the dive plan to the tide rather than the working day. Craft that sit here through long idle periods carry heavy fouling, particularly on flat bottoms, sea chests and inlet gratings.

Where we work: Creek jetty · Offshore anchorage
Vessels we see here: Fishing vessels and trawlers · Coastal barges and small general cargo craft · Support and workboats

Hull Cleaning scopes at Jakhau

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

Planning the window at Jakhau

The south-west monsoon governs the calendar at Jakhau 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. The tidal stream and the silt load govern the method here: the working window is slack water, not the working day, and the operation is planned by feel and surface supervision with video kept as the record rather than as the diver's means of navigation.

Work is taken at the creek jetty and offshore anchorage, and which of those a vessel ends up at changes the dive plan more than the season does. Teams mobilise via Bhuj (BHJ) or Kandla (IXY), 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 Jakhau

The working fleet here spends most of its life at low speed in warm water, so growth is heavy, mixed and reaches the hard calcareous stage sooner than on deep-sea tonnage. Left too long it starts damaging the coating rather than just slowing the vessel.

Silt settles over the growth on the flat bottom and in the niches, which masks the true fouling state until the divers are actually on it. That is why the pre-clean survey here is a real step rather than a formality.

How we deliver it at Jakhau

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Scope and vessel details
Tell us the vessel, her particulars, the coating specification and the window at Jakhau. 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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Permits and approvals
Diving permission is obtained from Gujarat Maritime Board, along with terminal approval where the berth requires it and any environmental clearance for in-water work. This is handled by us, not left with the agent to chase.
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Mobilisation to Jakhau
Divers, compressors, brush carts and cameras mobilise via Bhuj (BHJ) or Kandla (IXY). Where a vessel is also calling at Mundra, one mobilisation is normally sized to cover both.
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Safety setup and the dive
The vessel is secured for diving — main engine, shaft and thrusters immobilised, sea suctions confirmed shut, permit agreed with the master. Teams work under surface supervision with continuous diver communications and video throughout.
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Report and handover
A completion report covering hull cleaning is issued with before-and-after imagery, coating and anode condition and anything found that you should know about. The findings are discussed with the vessel rather than emailed and forgotten.

Jakhau Port at a glance

UN/LOCODE: INJAK
Port type: State Port
State: Gujarat
Country: India
Water body: Arabian Sea off the Kutch coast
Port authority: Gujarat Maritime Board
Main cargoes: Fishing catch, Coastal general cargo, Salt
Crew mobilisation: Bhuj (BHJ) / Kandla (IXY)
Services here: Hull Cleaning

Frequently asked — Jakhau Port

Does Cleanship provide hull cleaning at Jakhau Port?

Yes. We cover the full hull cleaning scope at Jakhau Port (INJAK), Gujarat — underwater hull cleaning, propeller polishing, thruster cleaning & polishing, in-water class survey and uwild. Teams mobilise via Bhuj (BHJ) or Kandla (IXY).

What is underwater visibility like at Jakhau?

Visibility at Jakhau Port is habitually very low, and often close to nil at the turn, and the south-west monsoon sets the outer limits of the calendar. How the tide and sea state shape the dive plan is set out in full in the working-conditions section on this page.

Who approves hull cleaning work at Jakhau?

Gujarat Maritime Board issues the port-side approval at Jakhau Port, with terminal approval on top where the berth requires it. We arrange both, along with any environmental clearance for in-water cleaning, so it does not fall to the agent or the master.

Which vessels call at Jakhau?

Fishing vessels and trawlers, Coastal barges and small general cargo craft, Support and workboats — Jakhau Port is shallow tidal creek working on the Kutch coast, handling fishing catch, coastal general cargo and salt. 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 Jakhau?

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. Divers work with the vessel afloat at the berth or the anchorage, so there is no dry dock, no diversion and no off-hire.

Do you cover other ports near Jakhau?

Yes. Mundra, Kandla and Navlakhi all sit within the same operating range for hull cleaning, and a single mobilisation is often sized to cover more than one vessel on the same trip. We work 46 ports on the coverage list for this line.

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