Indian Institute of Ports Management, IIPM, is an educational institution set up as a registered society under the Societies Registration Act, XXI of 1860 by the Major Ports of India, a government of India body. IIPM was initially set up with an objective to undertake training programmes, consulting and additional research services for the ports and shipping industry. On 14 November 2008, under a government covenant that came into action on the passing of The Indian Maritime University Act, IIPM was formally merged with seven other Indian maritime academic institutions—National Maritime Academy-Chennai, T S Chanakya-Mumbai, Lal Bahadur Shastri College of Advanced Maritime Studies & Research-Mumbai, Marine Engineering Research Institute-Mumbai, Marine Engineering Research Institute-Kolkata, Indian Institute of Port Management-Kolkata and National Ship Design & Research Centre-Visakhapatnam — to form India's single largest ports and shipping institution, namely, the Indian Maritime University

Indian Maritime University

The Indian Maritime University is located in Chennai. It was established on 14.11.2008 by the Indian Maritime University Act, 2008 It located in Utthandi in Chennai with campuses at Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, Visakhapatnam and Cochin....

(IMU). Currently, IIPM continues to operate as a division of the IMU, which—while allowing IIPM to retain its original name—refers to IIPM as IMU's Kolkata campus.

Address

40, Circular Garden Reach Road, Kolkata-700 043
Director : Shri P.S. Mukhopadhyay
Phone: 033-4394123

Faculty, programmes and consulting at IIPM

IIPM combines both full time and guest faculty in order to fulfill its core objectives. IIPM's core faculty sit on boards of other government institutions. IIPM faculties belong to two departments, Port Division and Marine Division. Both these divisions of IIPM have been known to undertake considerable number of training programmes, although the marine division of IIPM has been known to take more programmes than the port division.

Programmes that IIPM has taken in the past few years have consisted of the following areas:

• Advance Fire Fighting
• Fire Prevention & Fire Fighting
• First Mate (FG) Phase I
• First Mate (FG) Phase II
• GMDSS (GOC)
• Master FG Advanced Ship Board
• MEO Class II (New)
• Personal Safety & Social Responsibilities
• Personal Survival Technique
• Proficiency in Survival Craft & Rescue Boat
• Passenger Ship Familiarization Course
• Medical First Aid
• Medical Care
• Automatic Radar Plotting Aids (ARPA)
• Radar Observer Simulator Course (ROC)
• Upgradation of Specialized Tanker Safety
• Tanker Familiarization - Oil
• Revalidation of Master Course for Masters & Deck Officers
• Port Facility Security Officer(PFSO) Course
• Ship Security Officer(SSO) Course

The Haldia petrochemicals complex land development project was one of the most well known consulting assignments taken by IIPM.