The third status report on the public debt position of the government expects the debt-GDP ratio in India to decline in the coming years. The debt-GDP ratio of India stood at 66 per cent at the end of 2012-13 compared to 65.6 per cent in the previous year. The medium-term fiscal policy statement by the union government expects the debt-GDP ratio of the centre to declin
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DMICDC cancels industrial area development project
Media reports indicate that Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor Development Corporation (DMICDC) decided to shelve plans to develop the Dighi port industrial area owing to issues in land acquisition. Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC), which is acquiring land on behalf of DMICDC for the project, has reportedly received mixed response from land owing farmers
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Cargo volume declines in major ports
Data compiled by the Indian Ports Association (IPA) shows container cargo volumes at the 12 major ports in India declined to 1.87 million standard containers in April-June 2013 quarter at from 1.94 million a year earlier. During the same quarter, these 12 ports, which account for about 58 percent of the total cargo shipped through the countryÂ’s ports, handled 137 million tonne (mn
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Dredging cost may hit profitability of ICTT
The profitability of the Vizhinjam international container transhipment terminal (ICTT) is under question because of the annual maintenance requirement after every monsoon season. According to hydrographic surveyor Commander John Jacob Puthur (retd), the terminal requires dredging after each monsoon to remove at least 3 million cubic metre of silt at a minimum annual maintenance cost of Rs 3
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Board of APSEZ to meet on Aug 1
On August 01, 2013, the Board of Directors of Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone would meet to consider and adopt Unaudited Financial Results for the quarter ended June 30, 2013. Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone (APSEZ) is a part of IndiaÂ’s leading infrastructure conglomerate the Adani Group
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Govt to reject bid of ABG Group
Media reports indicate that the Kerala government decided to reject the sole bid of ABG Group to develop a cement terminal at Azhikkal port in Kannur at a cost of Rs 120 crore. Reports indicate that the government decided to reject the bid on certain technical grounds including disagreement on the revenue share offered by the company
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Dighi Port receives largest bulk carrier
On June 28, Dighi Port received the largest bulk carrier so far and one of the largest vessels to call at any port in Maharashtra. The port received the vessel ‘MV C Harmony’ having a LOA of 270 meter and a beam of 43 meter with DWT of 153,153 million tonne. The vessel carried steam coal for one of the largest coal importers in the country, reports indicat
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Port asked to revive operation in container terminal
Trade unions at Cochin Port in Kerala urged the port management to revive operations at the Rajiv Gandhi Container Terminal and retaining of cargo handling at Cochin port itself. The coordination committee of various trade unions at the Cochin Port took out a protest march to the Port Trust office raising various demands. The unions organised a dharna in front of the port office
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EPL allots land for terminal project
Ennore Port (EPL) allotted 13.5 hectare land for setting up a 2 million tonne per annum multi-purpose cargo terminal. The length of the new cargo berth will be 270 metre with 15 metre draught. The port plans to set up this terminal through public private partnership (PPP) model and the terminal will have two mobile cranes and a six-fork lift truck to handle clean cargo such as timber, granite, machinery, project cargo, steel, cement
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ICTT receives Maersk main line vessel
The first direct Maersk main line service which has called at International Container Transshipment Terminal (ICTT) recently. ICTT received the mainline cargo vessel MV Newyorker with 1,185 twenty foot equivalent units (TEUs) of cashew from West Africa. The vessel, operated by the global shipping major Maersk Line, also has transshipment containers for Tutic