Till December 2012, only 82 of the 276 projects for increasing capacity and modernisation at 12 major ports were completed under the National Maritime Development Programme, official data shows.
While the government abandoned some projects under the programme, a large number of the total projects have been delayed. Besides, scores of them are still at the planning stage.
In 2005, the government formulated NMDP to facilitate enhanced private investment, improve service quality and promote competitiveness by identifying specific schemes or projects and other measures.
The schemes were planned to be implemented in two overlapping phases: Phase I (2005-2009) and Phase II (2007-2012).
However, in January 2011, the Ministry of Shipping introduced its perspective plan for the
next 10 years. The new plan, named Maritime Agenda 2010–2020, replaced NMDP.
A total of 352 projects have been identified for implementation at major ports under the Maritime Agenda 2010–2020. The agenda expects to take total port capacity to around 3,200 million tonne to handle around 2,500 million tonne of cargo by 2020.
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