The Union Government has taken up modernisation and expansion of 43 port projects at a cost of Rs 12,000 crore to add about 220 million tonne capacity to the ports. The capacity of all major ports was 744.91 million tonne per annum as on
31 March 2013.
Category: Ports & Shipping
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Port Modernisation
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Essar, TPG Capital in Race for Karaikal Port
To acquire a majority stake in Karaikal Port in Tamil Nau, Essar Ports and US private equity giant TPG Capital are in the fray to acquire a majority stake in
Karaikal Port. The port is a subsidiary of debt-ridden Chennai based Marg Group.
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Major Ports Handle 184.53 mt Cargo
The government-owned 12 major ports in the country totally handled 47.38 million tonne cargo in the last July. In the month, the volume of iron ore and containers handled at these ports registered a decline.
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RITES Consultant to new AP Port Project
A subsidiary of Indian Railways, RITES has been appointed as the consultant for preparing the techno-economic feas¡bility report for the new major port at Dugarajapatnam in Andhra Pradesh with a three month time limit for submission of the report, said the Union Minister of Shipping GK Vasan
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Chennai Port Container Terminal
The Chennai Port Trust is to convert the Jawahar Dock (East) berth into a small container terminal to handle around 800,000 TEUs a year. The berth was used to handle coal till a few years back, but has been lying unused after coal handling was shifted to Ennore port
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Dighi Port to Set up Berths
Vijay Kalantri, Chairman and Managing Director of Dighi Port said that the port would set up the remaining three berths as part of the phase one of the project by December 2014. The green field port is being developed in Raigad district of Maharashtra.
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NMPT to build 4th berth
The New Mangalore Port has called a tender for a fourth berth. The port had added two additional berths in 2006 and 2011 and one more is under completion.
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JNPT to build liquid terminal
Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) is to build Rs 1,800 crore new liquid terminal through public-private-partnership route. The Port Trust has finalised plans to build the terminal having a capacity of 15 million tonne per annum. The planned new terminal will have a liquid jetty and a tank farm spread over 70 hectare.
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BWNC meet in Sept to settle port & dock workers wage issue
The Union government-owned major ports' management representatives have taken rigid stand over consolidation of pension consequent upon the revision of wages w.e.f January first 2012 & fixation of pay on promotion including in case of financial up-gradation under MACP Scheme.
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Govt takes up port modernisation at Rs 12,000 cr
The Union government has taken up modernisation and expansion of 43 port projects at a cost of Rs 12,000 crore to add about 220 million tonne capacity to the ports. This was stated by the Union Minister of State for Shipping Milind Deora in THE Rajya Sabha on August 29. The capacity of all major ports was 744.91 million tonne per annum (MTPA) as on March 31, 2013.