Kolkata Port Trust has a proposal to construct a container terminal at Diamond Harbour, involving an investment of about INR 1,600 crore. The proposal consists of a 900 meter long jetty with a back up area of 91.32 acrea. It is a common experience in any new project that requires a vast mass of land that the greatest hurdle to that project will be acquisition of land. But, in this case, land acquisition may not be such a difficult issue because almost all the land belongs to the government and it is said 78% of the land has already been given away to the Kolkata Port Trust by the Ministry of Defence and the Directorate General and the rest of the land belongs to the state and the railways. This might be a great encouragement to the prospective private players. For the pre-application conference for this proposal, six companies were present and out of six, three were multinationals. The six companies were APM Terminals, International Container Terminal Services, DP World, Concast Infratech with Hyundai ENC as its joint venture partner, Srei with OHL Construction as its JV partner, IL and SS Maritime Infrastructure.
The proposed terminal will have the capacity to handle 1.2 million Twenty Foot Equivalent Unit and it will be constructed on Public-Private-Partnership model. The terminal has many merits to its credit; the ships that unload at Diamond Harbour need not sail an additional 75 kilometer to Kolkata; the draught at Diamond Harbour is nine meters thus enabling bigger ships to berth, an increase in business prospects. Kolkata Port Trust prefers to have the containers moved to it by barges.
Kolkata Port Trust plans to finalize the tender in the middle of 2013 so that it can commission the terminal in 2015.
The proposed terminal will have the capacity to handle 1.2 million Twenty Foot Equivalent Unit and it will be constructed on Public-Private-Partnership model. The terminal has many merits to its credit; the ships that unload at Diamond Harbour need not sail an additional 75 kilometer to Kolkata; the draught at Diamond Harbour is nine meters thus enabling bigger ships to berth, an increase in business prospects. Kolkata Port Trust prefers to have the containers moved to it by barges.
Kolkata Port Trust plans to finalize the tender in the middle of 2013 so that it can commission the terminal in 2015.
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