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India Accelerates Green Hydrogen Push with Port-Based Pilots, R&D Grants and Industry Backing: Pralhad Joshi

India Accelerates Green Hydrogen Push with Port-Based Pilots, R&D Grants and Industry Backing: Pralhad Joshi

To accelerate innovation in green hydrogen, India has launched a ₹1 billion call for proposals targeting start-ups, offering up to ₹50 million per project for pilot initiatives in production, storage, transport and utilisation technologies. Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy Pralhad Venkatesh Joshi has said India is actively working to realise the goals outlined...

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Ban on ZPMC cranes to affect Indian ports

Ban on ZPMC cranes to affect Indian ports

The government decision to deny security clearance to the world´s biggest port crane maker, China´s state-owned Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries Co (ZPMC), to supply cargo handling equipment to Major Ports will have serious implications for the country´s port industry, according to industry executives.

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Rise in VO Chidambaram Port’s coal imports

Rise in VO Chidambaram Port’s coal imports

In VO Chidambaranar Port (VOC) in Tuticorin, coal imports surged at with a cargo volume of 106,17,791 million tonne (mt) handled in 2012-13. With this, the volume the port handled has surpassed the past record of 92,76,356 mt in the earlier year.

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Minister announces Rs 75 bn outer harbour project at Tuticorin port

Minister announces Rs 75 bn outer harbour project at Tuticorin port

In a move that would add 42 million tonne capacity to Tuticorin port, the union budget 2013-14 announced the Rs 7,500 crore project to set up an outer harbour. The Finance Minister P Chidambaram announced while presenting his eighth budget on February 29. The minister also said a new port will come at Andhra Pradesh. Three Southern states including Tamil Nadu, Andhra Prad

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VO Port to set up second container terminal

VO Port to set up second container terminal

S Natarajan, Chairman of the VO Chidambaranar Port informed that the management plans to set up a 6 lakh Twenty Foot Equivalent Units (TEU) container terminal in order raise the cargo handling capacity of the port. The terminal project may cost Rs 312.23 crore and concessionaire would offer gross revenue share of 55.19 percent. This would be the second container terminal of the port

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Tuticorin port setting up 4 berths

Tuticorin port setting up 4 berths

In order to handle more quantity of cargoes like coal, copper concentrates, rock phosphate, the VO Chidambaranar Port at Tuticorin decided to set up four cargo berths. S Natarajan, Chairman of the port said construction of the north cargo berth (NCB)-II is in progress and it would be c

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Tuticorin port setting up 4 berths

Tuticorin port setting up 4 berths

In order to handle more quantity of cargoes like coal, copper concentrates, rock phosphate, the VO Chidambaranar Port at Tuticorin decided to set up four cargo berths. S Natarajan, Chairman of the port said construction of the north cargo berth (NCB)-II is in progress and it would be c

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