Nine leading companies have submitted RFQs to the Chennai Port Trust for the development of the proposed mega container terminal at an estimated cost of INR 36.86 billion.
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Work on the second container terminal at Tuticorin, a major port located south of Chennai, on India’s eastern coast, has begun with the laying of the foundation stone for the project by the Shipping Minister T.R. Balu recently.
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A direct container feeder service between Yangon (Myanmar) and Kolkata, in eastern India, has been launched by the Singapore-based Orient Express Lines, belonging to Transworld Group.
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Posted on: Saturday, February 28, 2009 ; 01:37 IST
The Indian Government has approved infrastructure projects worth INR 95.65 billion in two southern states, Kerala and Tamil Nadu, including four-laning of National Highways in the two states, and development of a container terminal at Ennore Port, near Ch
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The Indian government has approved the plan of Tuticorin port authorities to invite bids for developing the eighth berth as a container terminal with an annual handling capacity of 600,000 20-feet equivalent units (TEU) containers.
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Gateway Terminals India Pvt Ltd (GTI), the youngest terminal at the Jawaharlal Nehru port (JNPT), near Mumbai, has commissioned two new quay cranes, procured from ZPMC of China, raising its capacity by an additional 500,000 teus annually.
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The Sri Lanka Ports Authority has invited bids for a container terminal in a new deep-draft port being built adjacent to the Colombo harbour.
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RPTL signs power pact with western region power utilities
Reliance Power Transmission (RPTL), subsidiary of Reliance Infrastructure, India’s largest private sector enterprise in power utility, has signed power transmission agreement with eight entities from western India for two inter-state power transmission projects.
RPTL signed the agreement through its two Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs) for the projects under the Western Region System Strengthening Scheme-II (WRSSS-II), entailing an investment of INR18 billion, for establishing 400 KV double circuit transmission lines of around 1,500 kms, mainly in Maharashtra Continue
