The government today said it would award six shipping projects worth Rs 3,319.14 crore, to be developed on the public-private-partnership (PPP) basis, in next 100 days.
According to the 100-day agenda of the Shipping Ministry released today, the six projects are expected to add capacity of 31.23 million tonnes and 1.97 million TEUs.
The proposed projects include plans for development of a deep draught iron ore berth and a coal berth of capacity 10 million tonnes each at a cost of Rs 591.35 crore and Rs 479.01 crore respectively at the Paradip port.
The third project targets development of eight berths as container terminals of capacity 4.7 lakh TEUs at a cost of Rs 312.23 crore at the Tuticorin Port in Tamil Nadu. A coal terminal at a cost of Rs 252.44 crore to raise capacity to 4.61 million tonnes per annum of the Mormugao port in Goa has also been proposed.
A mechanised iron ore handling facility as a back up requirement to deep draft at the multipurpose Berth No 14 would be developed at Rs 277.11 crore at the New Mangalore Port in Karnataka.
A container terminal would be developed for Rs 1,407 crore having capacity of 1.5 M TEU at the Ennore Port.
