The Food Corporation of India (FCI) is to opt Kochi port for its foodgrain movement of both bulk and break bulk cargo movement. With this, Kochi port is to gain a lot. FCI recently floated a tender for multimodal contract for transport of rice from designated depots of Kakinada to Kerala through coastal movement.
Author: admin (Infratructure Today)
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2nd India Construction Festival 2013 – Move over, policy paralysis
Amid top domain experts, decision makers and policy enablers, this mega event brought to the fore the pressing challenges facing the sector and offered many practical remedies, report MANAS R BASTIA and Shriyal Sethumadhavan.
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India awards 13 port projects during April-Nov
During the last April-November period, the Union Shipping Ministry has awarded 13 port projects with a total capacity of 80 million tonne (mt). Last year, the Centre had awarded 14 PPP port projects. This is 30 per cent less than the total capacity of 114 mt awarded last year at an investment of Rs 5, 515 crore.
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Govt is striving to bring investments into ports: Vasan
The Union Shipping Minister GK Vasan has said on November 27 that the government is making continuous efforts to attract investment in the ports sector for augmentation of freight. Vasan said that Belgium is India's second largest trading partner with more than 150 Belgian companies in India with interests in dredging, chemicals, engineering goods, electronics and software etc.
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Kochi port invites EoI for harbour refinery
To set up an export-oriented oil refinery or an oil trading hub, the Cochin Port Trust has invited expression of interest (EoI) from companies. The oil trading hub is to come up in the proposed outer harbour area.
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Danish team visits APM Terminals Dadri unit in UP
An eight-member delegation led by Denmark Minister for Trade and Economic Affairs Nick Haekkerup and DenmarkĂâs Ambassador to India Freddie Svane visited the Uttar Pradesh-based Dadri facility of APM Terminals India recently. Nitin Jain, Business Unit Head of APM Terminals, Dadri hosted the delegation and took the delegation around the Dadri container freight station facility.
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APSEZ ties-up with Belgian Port of Zeebrugge
To act as a strategic entry port for the European market, IndiaĂâs largest private port developer Adani Ports & SEZ (APSEZ) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Belgian Port of Zeebrugge on November 27.
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Govt links all district headquarters to Patna by road
By linking all district headquarters of Bihar with the State capital Patna, the State government has registered a significant achievement. Now, from any district headquarter town in the state, it takes maximum six hours by road to reach Patna.
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Aranmula Airport should be in the govt sector: Mount Zion
The proposed Aranmula airport project in Kerala should be under the government's purview on the lines of Nedumbassery airport in which the government is the majority shareholder, said Mount Zion Group Chairman Abraham Kalamannil.
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IWAI transport terminal ready at Kolkata port
A transport terminal of the Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) at Garden Reach Jetty-2 in Kolkatta Port Trust is ready.
Kolkata being a transportation hub on the Ganga, the new terminal would serve Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal and the North-Eastern Region.