Chennai port is planning a Rs 3,700 crore mega container terminal with a continuous quay length of 2 km and 18-22 m side along draft, capable of handling ultra large container ships carrying over 15,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs).
Category: Ports & Shipping
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CPT plans key infrastructure projects
Cochin Port Trust (CPT) has planned to implement some of the key infrastructure projects to attract more clients.
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MIV's CFS at Vallarpadam
The proposed container freight station (CFS) by MIV Logistics at Vallarpadam would be partly operational by December and fully operational by October 2013.
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Dredging at JNPT, MbPT
Mumbai and Nhava-Sheva Ship Agents Association (MANSA) said it looks forward to the early completion of the dredging project at the JN Port and Mumbai Port channel.
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New SPM in NMP
The newly set up Single Point Mooring (SPM) facility would help decongest the existing jetties at the New Mangalore Port and also help attract more traffic.
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Captive port policy
Union Minister of Shipping, GK Vasan informed that as per existing Captive Policy, cases where 100 per cent captive facilities (land or waterfront) including captive oil jetties,
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The Port Paradocks
Cargo growth at Indian ports was subdued in 2011-12 with total throughput registering a 5 per cent year-on-year increase to 930 million tonnes,
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Time to revisit port legislations
Ports in India have always been taken recourse to Port Trusts, but after the arrival of PPP in ports, this should change, says A Balasubramanian.
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Solutions to maritime financing blues
Maritime suffers from not only policy implementation problems, but from finance availability. Sanjeev Gupta recommends that the ports, shipping, shipbuilding and inland waterways should be...
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Structural and tariff issues hampering port finance
IIFCL recently undertook takeout financing of a road and a port project, in the midst of much debate on this new form of finance involving underwriting an existing loan from another financial institution.