The Visakhapatnam port has shown a drop in cargo in the first half of current fiscal too after posting a fall in total cargo handled during 2012-13. The port handled 28.9 million tonne cargo in the first half of current fiscal (H1), as against the 30.3 million tonne capacity it had handled a year ago.
Category: Ports & Shipping
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Coast Guard takes foreign vessel into custody
The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) has on October 11 taken into custody a Sierra Leone's vessel with a 10-member crew and brought it to Tuticorin port for investigation. Eight among the 10-member crew are Indians. Sierra Leone is a west African country.
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Phailin effect: Operations suspended at ports
Due to the cyclone Phailin all operations at Dhamra, Paradip and Gopalpur ports in Odisha were suspended for two days. Since ships also run the risk of damaging the berths, all ports have moved the vessels away.
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Agitation hits port operations in AP
The ongoing agitations against bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh have hit port operation in the state. The power outage caused by strike by electricity department employees have affected port operations including cargo handling and evacuation of shipments in the last three days.
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Palghar locals holds protest against cargo port
Opposing the proposed cargo-handling port by JSW Infrastructure in Palghar taluk, residents of the area observed a Black Day on October 8. Even the local peoples representatives including MPs and MLAs took part in the protest.
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Plea to shift proposed major port to Ramaiahpatnam
Businessmen in Ongole in Andhra Pradesh have urged the Union government to establish the proposed major port at Ramaiahpatnam of Prakasam district instead of Dugarajapatnam in Nellore district. The businessmen claimed that the major port was originally planned at Ramaiahpatnam and appealed to the Centre not to shift it to Durgarajapuram.
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Feasibility report soon on Vizag satellite port
There is a further progress in the efforts of the Visakhapatnam Port to expand a satellite port near the 17th century Dutch township of Bheemunipatnam in the country's east coast as Delhi-based consultant has come forward to submit a detailed feasibility report (DFR) on next month.
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Chennai firm to start cruise liner from Mumbai
Using Mumbai as a home port, a cruise liner service will be started by a Chennai-based company Newport Maritime by next year. Newport Maritime, founded by Sivakumar Elayathamby Sinnarajah, a person of Sri Lankan origin and a US citizen, plans to invest $400 million over five years to run the service with two used luxury cruise ships.
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Govt drops Chennai mega terminal project for now
Recent media reports say that the Union Shipping Ministry, after failed attempts to get the Chennai Mega Container Terminal up and running, has taken off the project from its list of targets this year. The terminal project cost has gone up from earlier estimates of Rs 3,800 crore to nearly Rs 5,000 crore.
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Govt leaves several ports without heads
Several major posts and projects in the country have been doing with temporary chairmen for months and this has resulted in lack of proper leadership to the sector. From Shipping Corporation of India (SCI) to Jawaharlal Nehru and Vizag ports, all have been doing with temporary chairmen for months. It has resulted in poor cargo growth.