Paradip Port Trust is implementing several projects to raise its capacity from the existing 102 million metric tonne per annum (mn tpa) to 252.50 mn tpa by the year ending 2020.
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Govt aims to award 30 port projects in FY14
Union Shipping Minister GK Vasan informed a parliamentary consultative committee in Mumbai that the ministry aims to award 30 projects worth Rs 24,633 crore in 2013-14. These projects may increase capacity of ports in the country by 288.48 million tonne, the minister said. Further, the minister pointed out that the achie
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Home ministry gave opinion on security nod for APSEZ
The union home ministry is learnt to have given its opinion on granting security clearance to Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone (APZEZ) for participating in the proposed terminal project in Chennai port. In a representation submitted to the Chennai port late December, the APSEZ sought a review of the governmentÂ’s earlier decision to deny it security clearance
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Legal experts find loopholes in lease deed
Legal experts warned that the Cochin Port Trust (CPT) may lose 26 acre of prime land at Bolgatty island if the lease holder raises loan against the land and fails to repay it. On July 26, 2011, the port authority leased out the land to a private developer by signing a lease deed. According to the deed, the lessee may seek permission from the port authority to raise loan against the la
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IIT recommends all weather port at Nagapattinam
The Indian Institute of Technology, Madras recommended the Tamil Nadu government to develop the proposed port at Nagapattinam as an ‘all weather, deep water, direct berthing port. The state government would conduct the bidding process for the Rs 380 cr project based on reco
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Chennai port to adopt RFD to gauge performance
Chennai Port Trust (ChPT) decided to adopt Results Framework Document (RFD) in order to measure its operational performance instead of the current Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). The port would prepare a plan of action in 2013-14 based on the RFD for generating traffic based on clean cargo. The port would segregate capacity addition into three
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Kerala govt to complete work on national waterways soon
Minister of Ports for Kerala K Babu informed that his government complete the work on the national waterway from Kottappuram to Kovalam soon. Speaking on the sidelines of an event, the minister affirmed that the government was fully committed to the development of water transportation in the state. He said the state government gave utmost impo
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SCI, DCI, ports incur avoidable costs
The annual report of the union shipping industry shows that some organisations in the sector incurred an expenditure of about Rs 490 crore, which was avoidable. According to a government audit, pointed out in the report, Dredging Corporation of India (DCI) incurred Rs 165 crore cost owing to lack of professional handling of fuel consumption
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Rise in freight rates too less to improve margins
According to industry sources, the recent rise in the freight rates was too less to improve the margins of shipping companies and the rates may not improve significantly in the rest of 2013. The Baltic Dry Index, which measures cost of shipping bulk commodities, has risen from an average of 745
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NMPT gets 4 cruise vessels so far in FY14
So far in 2013-14, four cruise vessels called at the New Mangalore Port. These include two luxury cruise vessels - ‘mv Legend of the Seas’ and ‘mv Pacific Princess’. While the vessel ‘mv Legend of the Seas’ came from Kochi, the vessel, ‘m.v. Pacific Princess’, came from Phuket in Thailand