Front Bay is home to the Mumbai Port, which lies in the south section of the western edge of the harbour.

[1] Butcher Island, also known as Jawahar Dweep, is used as an oil terminal by the Mumbai Port.

It has jetties for tankers and various other infrastructure for offloading crude oil and for loading refined petroleum products.

The guns salute Indian naval vessels returning from deployments when they enter the harbour.

Mangrove swamps line much of the northwestern and eastern shores of the harbour, and provide a rich habitat for wildlife, including thousands of migrating birds such as flamingoes.

Due to immense population pressures from the Mumbai metropolitan region and the extremely busy maritime trade, the Harbour is considered to be heavily polluted.

[3] The abundance of fish in this area is recorded in a painting by Clarkson Frederick Stanfield of Bombay Harbour—Fishing Boats in the Monsoon., engraved by Edward Goodall and with a poetical illustration by Letitia Elizabeth Landon.