| Billed as the country's longest sea link, the 22-km Mumbai Trans Harbour Link Project involving the construction of an eight-lane highway connecting Sewree in south Mumbai to Nhava in Navi Mumbai is being executed by the state-owned Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC). It is expected to be completed in around two years. |
| MSRDC, which had earlier executed the Mumbai-Pune Expressway, has already appointed PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) as consultants for the project. |
| In the first phase, only the road link will be executed, according to a PwC executive. The link is expected to drastically cut travel time between the south of Mumbai, which is the commercial and business hub of the city, and Navi Mumbai, thereby encouraging people to settle in the Navi Mumbai area. |
| MSRDC has already floated a global tender for the execution of the turnkey project. For the bidders, MSRDC has specified a net worth of over Rs 100 crore in 2002-03 and an average annual turnover of over Rs 1,000 crore from construction work during the last three years. |
| The specifications also require the bidder to have executed at least one rail or road bridge project over a river or sea costing over Rs 500 crore. |
| While MSRDC has kept open the option of financing the project on its own, it has also invited separate quotes from bidders for the finance and construction of the project. |
Rs 1,800-crore project
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