Pradip Port Trust (PPT) will start shipments of marine products from this September-end. This has been conveyed by the PPT Chairman Sudhanshu Shekhara Mishra to the Gorachand Mohanty, president, Seafood Exporters Association of India, Odisha region. PPT has assured marine exporters extension of all facilities, including a designated container yard for handling marine products and refrigerated container cargo.
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Fall in trade reduces turnaround time in major ports
Average turnaround and pre-berthing time for ships declined 7 per cent and 11 per cent, respectively at major ports during April and May 2013. The decline of these two variables, which indicate improved efficiency, is not due to capacity addition, but due to a fall in trade, as the number of vessels handled by ports fell from 3,260 to 3,139 during the period, reports indic
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PPT agrees to handle marine products cargo
From the end of September, Pradip Port Trust (PPT) agreed to handle export cargo of seafood or marine products through a designated container yard. The yard would handle marine products and refrigerated container cargo. The port authority agreed to handle the marine cargo during a meeting with the officials of the Seafood Expo
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Govt clears Beypore port project
Kerala government gave administrative approval for a Rs 380-lakh project to develop the Beypore port, Minister for Ports K Babu was quoted as saying in an official press note. Of the total amount, Rs 300 lakh would be spent on installing reach stackers for the movement of cargo containers from the wharf to the stacking
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Casting inaugurated for Rs 2,400 cr bridge in Patna
In Patna, inauguration of the casting for 4.5-km-long rail-cum-road bridge at Digha was fulfilled by ECR GM Madhuresh Kumar at the bridge site in the city September 14. Railways has completed the launching of 22nd span of 123 metre girder of the rail-cum-road bridge so far. This bridge will have 9.075 metre carriageway width of road and 1.5 metre wide pathway on either side.
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Blore complex owner to give 7,000 sqft land for road work
Owner of a commercial complex in Bangalore's busy Majestic area, has reportedly agreed to part with 7,000 -square-foot land, for road widening near Shantala Silk Junction, near the city railway and Kempegowda Bus-station area. The narrow bend near the Shantala Silk Junction is resulting in traffic congestion at peak hours. Owner of the City Centaur Shopping Complex HM Nataraj said he had agreed to give the land so that traffic congestion on the road can be eased.
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Kota-Jhalawar h’way project prevented
The proposed four-laning of national highway project between Kota and Jhalawar by the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) has been foreclosed. The Ministry of Environment and Forests' has refused the road project plan, as it involved felling of trees and will also runs through the Darrah wildlife sanctuary and affect the tiger reserve there badly.
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Govt mulls rescue plan for highway-project defaulters
The Union government, upset by several jammed highway projects, plans to re-negotiate contracts worth Rs 99,000 crore with some of the private developers to give them payment concessions, instead of imposing penalties. The government's grand rescue plan, billed as a one-time measure, is in the final stages of approval and involves 23 concessionaires (the private parties) and a total project cost of Rs 34,000 crore ($5.2 billion).
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Ennore Port presents Rs 40 cr dividend to govt
The Union Minister of Shipping GK Vasan was presented with a dividend cheque of Rs 40 crore by the Ennore Port (EPL) for the financial year 2012-13. The Chairman and Managing Director of the EPL MA Bhaskarachar presented the cheque to the Minister at a function in Chennai on September 17.
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Air India hopes to meet govt set fiscal targets
Air India CMD Rohit Nandan has stated that despite an unexpected increase in aviation fuel cost and wild fluctuation of rupee against the dollar, the national carrier is hopeful of meeting its financial targets in the second quarter of this fiscal. The company has managed to bring its losses down to about Rs 11 crore per day from around Rs 50 crore per day, he added.