Mr. Anil Yendluri, Chief Executive Officer, Krishnapatnam Port and Director, Krishnapatnam Rail Company Limited, has announced that a berth is getting ready at the port to handle cars and it is expected to be commissioned by the first quarter of 2013-14.He said that the port is in discussion with all the car manufacturers. Though he did not reveal their names, it may be mentioned here that Hyundai, Ford, Nissan and Renault are making cars in the Chennai region. Many officials from neighbouring car companies have already visited the port, he added. The Chennai Port annually handles over three lakh cars while at Ennore Port, the cumulative car handling has crossed the two-lakh-mark. The Ennore Port commenced car handling in September 2010.
The privately-run Krishnapatnam Port in Andhra Pradesh, located 180 km north of Chennai, is constructing a roll-on roll-off berth in the south terminal. The port has nearly 45 km of railway line inside the campus, he said.
Meanwhile, the port has commissioned five super post Panamax rail-mounted quay cranes at its container terminal. The all-weather terminal can handle 1.2 million Twenty Foot Equivalent Units (TEU) annually. With a draft of 18 metres, the port is capable of handling largest container vessels, he said and added that the cranes were commissioned for the container vessel Buxhill, an MSC-operated weekly service connecting Krishnapatman port and Colombo.
There is a plan to increase the container handling capacity to six million TEUs in the next four years, making it one of the largest container terminals on the East Coast, Mr. Yendluri observed.
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