Indian Port Development and Shipping Industry News, Updates & Reports

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IWAI aims 120MT inland waterways cargo movement by 2023

 

[Tanmay]

Karanja Port

Close to JNPT and Mumbai ports. Also shown in yellow line is the 22km Mumbai TransHarbor Link (MTHL) under construction.

Currently 400m quay length is being constructed. Will be extended to 1000m later.


Future expansion on the Eastern side is also planned.
http://www.environmentclearance.nic...9KI26EAPreFeasiblityReportkaranjaeastport.pdf

I think is high time to move Mumbai port operations to JNPT and Karanja ports.

Mumbai Seaside can be utilized to have a firangi style skyline and open spaces (eg. Canary Wharf, UK).

Only Indian Navy port, an expanded Mazgaon Dock Shipyard with shiplifts, Fishing harbor should remain.
Already the Princess Dock and Victoria Dock are being reclaimed and transformed into Marina.
Coal Bunder, Darukhana are next to be demolished

 

[Tanmay]

The Mumbai Eastern Coast Redevelopment Plan looks like this


The consultant
https://www.hcp.co.in/project/mumbai-port-complex-master-plan

steelguru.com/logistic/mumbai-port-trust-appoints-planning-design-consultant-for-developing-eastern-waterfront/466389

The financial bids were then processed and the bid of HCP Design, Planning and Management was the lowest. Hence, HCP Design, Planning and Management, along with PricewaterhouseCoopers Pvt. Ltd and Unity Consultancy Pvt. Ltd, emerged as the top contender.

2003 Image

2019 image: Victoria and Princess Docks filled with soil.


Draft reports of Govt / Mumbai Port Trust
http://mumbaiport.gov.in/writereaddata/linkimages/spareport.pdf

Detailed analysis of port use, capacity traffic and suggestions under Sagarmala project. Gives a very good insight. My layman understanding is that except for the invisible cargo(Liquid petrol, /chemicals etc) Mumbai port is outdated and cannot handle larger ships. The old docks don't have enough draft/depth etc. We should concentrate on Shipbuilding, maintenance and repair of global fleets and have a dedicated cluster for it around Mazgoan Dock shipyard. Rest land should be used to redesign Mumbai with good Indian aesthetic touch.
http://sagarmala.gov.in/sites/default/files/8.Final_Master_Plan_MbPT.pdf

For Comparision: Canary Wharf, London



Another layman plan from me:
1) Expand JNPT (Already has 4 terrminals) with 2 more terminals. Convert JNPT area into a warehouse, refinery and manufacturing hub . MTHL, RoRo ships and smaller boats can be used to transport goods to Mumbai from JNPT.

2) Slum rehabilitation and Project Affected People rehab at Sewri end (already planned)

3) Two more BKC type areas - one at reclaimed Mumbai port area and other in NaviMumbai with rapid connectivity to Navi Mumbai Airport.

 

[Tanmay]

There seems to be a good progress with multiple shipyards adopting SHIPLIFT technology.

Chowgule Lavgan Shipyard @ Ratnagiri, Maharashtra
https://www.chowgulelavgan.com/

Never heard about this shipyard before. Apparently it has a 7500 Tonne Shiplift. Does some defence maintenance work too.

So Chowgule is indeed building P17A. It has impressive infra indeed as seen from my past post.

 

[Tanmay]

Aircrft Carrier Dock

https://www.thehindu.com/news/natio...rrier-dry-dock-on-sept-28/article29439117.ece


The aircraft carrier drydock, which will also be commissioned on September 28, will be the largest drydock of the Indian Navy. It will be capable of even dry-docking INS Vikramaditya, the modified Kiev-class aircraft carrier.

Read more at:
//economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/71167228.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst


This seems to be the dock at Indian Navy's Mumbai base. Length is around 275m. Work seems to have started in 2011! and completed in 2019!

 

[Akula]

Aircrft Carrier Dock

https://www.thehindu.com/news/natio...rrier-dry-dock-on-sept-28/article29439117.ece


The aircraft carrier drydock, which will also be commissioned on September 28, will be the largest drydock of the Indian Navy. It will be capable of even dry-docking INS Vikramaditya, the modified Kiev-class aircraft carrier.

Read more at:
//economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/71167228.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst


This seems to be the dock at Indian Navy's Mumbai base. Length is around 275m. Work seems to have started in 2011! and completed in 2019!
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I think CSL is also building something similar.

 

[Tanmay]

Good progress by IWAI (Inland WAterways Authority of India). Shipments of containers and coal to Pandu port in Guwahati.

Probably will play a role in reducing chicken neck problem

 

[Tanmay]

Another good solution to Oversized cargo transport

 

[Tanmay]

Ro-Ro gets a push too. Similar service launched from Mumbai to Alibaug

 

[Tanmay]

http://sagarmala.gov.in/sites/default/files/12.Final_Master%20_Plan_VPT.pdf

4.1.3 New Container Terminal Adjacent to the Existing Container Terminal Keeping in view the anticipated increase in container traffic and also to maintain additional potential, the Port has decided to undertake development of a new berth as an extension to the existing container berth to handle container cargo on Design, Build, Finance, Operate, and Transfer (DBFOT) basis. The new terminal is expected to have a capacity of 0.54 MTEU. The License to develop the Container terminal extension was awarded to the existing Operator M/s. Visakha Container Terminal Pvt Ltd. (VCTPL). The concession agreement for a thirty-year concession period was signed during Dec 2014. The new berth will be 395m long and 34m wide, and will be designed for 19 m water depth to accommodate vessels up to 150,000 DWT. However, initially the dredging will be done up to (-) 16.5 m only. The concessionaire has also been allotted 141,000 m2 area to be reclaimed immediately behind the berth and another 24,570 m2 behind GCB. For retaining the filling in the backup area, rock bund will be constructed. Heavy duty pavements will be laid for the RTG operating area and loaded container stacking area and light duty pavements for road ways and empty container stacking area. This is expected to accommodate about 2370 TEU ground slots. The following container handling equipment will be provided: x 3 no. quayside gantry cranes x 9 no. Rubber Tyres Gantry cranes x 5 no. reach stackers x 1 no. top lift truck x 24 tractor-trailer units The location of the berth with the backup area is shown in the satellite picture in Figure 4.3 hereunder.

April 2019

Progress as of April 2020

 

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Many Indians are also stranded

 

[Tanmay]

Cargo sent from Kolkata Port(India) to Chattogram Port(Bangladesh) and then via road to Agartala(India)




By road it will take minimum 40 Hours to reach Agartala from Kolkata. a long mountainous road.

Agartala is 5 hour drive from Chattogram. Plus shipping time. Terrain is flat.

P.S.: Layman fantasy + rant

In 1971 itself we should have asked for an 'enclave'. Tip of tripura is just 30 km away from the sea.
This enclave could have been as small as the width of a 4 lane road with a small port.

Post war would have been a great time to get this concession of enclave. Imagine the endless possibilities and negating Chicken Neck issue altogether without involving Bangladesh as trasit intermediary

 

[Tanmay]

Progress at Adani Vizhinjam Port at Kerala

 

[Tanmay]

Adani Vizhinjam Port at Kerala

2014

2020

 

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[Tanmay]

Importance of Vizhinjam International Transhipment Deepwater Multipurpose Seaport .

• As can be seen below interantional containerships usually unload cargo containers meant for India at Colombo Port, Sri Lanka and continue to Middle East and Gulf.
• Turning ship to big ports like Mumbai etc will take time and deviate a lot from the ships path
• As a result Indian cargo is unloaded at Sri Lanka itself and then loaded to another ship which takes it to Indian ports,
• Sri Lanka earns a huge amount of money by this trans-shipment business
• According to the Ministry of Shipping, about 25% of Indian containerised ocean cargo is trans-shipped at international ports like Colombo and Singapore. Colombo accounts for 48% of Indian international cargo, Singapore 22% and Malaysia’s Port Klang 10%.
• This honeymoon period for Sri Lanka is now coming to an end
• Vizinjam and Cochin will act as transshipment port for Western coast of India
• Tuticorin will act as transshipment port for Eastern coast of India

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com...hub-at-rs-7000-crore/articleshow/77560793.cms

https://thewire.in/economy/modi-wan...t-hub-but-can-it-beat-sri-lanka-and-singapore

 

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Improved capacity, reduced turnaround time: India's ports mean business

 

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Maharashtra: Decks Cleared For Environment Ministry's Nod To Mega Container Port In Vadhavan; Green Panel Grants NOC

The port, to be helmed by Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT), is located in the eco-sensitive Dahanu taluka.

Snapshot

• The proposed deep draft port in Maharashtra is expected to have a container handling capacity of more than 23 million TEUs by 2040, thereby placing India on the global map of top 10 container ports.

The proposed Rs 66,000 crore container port project at Vadhavan has cleared a big hurdle, with the Dahanu Taluka Environment Protection Authority (DTEPA) granting a no-objection certificate (NOC) for the project.

The port, to be helmed by Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT), is located in the eco-sensitive Dahanu taluk in Maharashtra’s Palghar district.

The permission will remove a big obstacle in the development of the port, and will allow the port authority to apply to the Expert Appraisal Committee attached to the Environment Ministry, seeking environmental and coastal regulation zone clearances for the project.

Flip-Flops

The Dahanu taluk had been declared as an 'environmentally fragile zone' in 1991 by the Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF), following the commissioning of the Thermal Power Plant at Dahanu.

Based on a Supreme Court order, the Centre constituted the DTEPA in 1996 to protect India’s first notified eco-sensitive zone in Dahanu.

The quasi-judicial authority vide the order dated 19 September 1998 had rejected the Centre's proposal to allow logistics giant P&O Ports to develop a port in Dahanu.

"The project would be wholly impermissible and illegal as it would be detrimental to the environmental and the socio-economic conditions of Dahanu area,” the order said.

After 1998, the project fell into dormancy, but was revived in 2015 when a special purpose vehicle was formed, with JNPA and Maharashtra Maritime Board as members, for implementing the Vadhavan Port project.

Subsequently, the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Authority, responsible for administering the 13th “major port” in India approached the DTEPA in May 2022 for no-objection certificate (NOC) for the port project.

The application for NOC was one of the compliances mandated by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) before going ahead with the project.

Despite objections raised by the parties opposing the Vadhavan port, the DTEPA unanimously approved the application and granted permission for the construction of the port, which is subject to the various terms and conditions imposed by MoEF&CC and its authorities.

The conditions include an environmental impact assessment, as well as, carrying out the recommendations made by expert groups and expert agencies in their respective reports.

The final order also mandates setting up a monitoring committee for various aspects related to the development of the port from the beginning, as well as, a grievance committee to hear grievances of stakeholders and locals who are concerned with the project.

Location Change

There has been widespread opposition to the project by local communities, who fear displacement and loss of customary livelihoods as experienced by indigenous communities in Raigad’s Uran taluka (where JNPA operates India’s largest cargo port at Nhava Sheva).

Therefore, to mitigate resistance, JNPA has opted to relocate the new port at an off-shore site, as against the previous on-shore site.

“Thus, now, the location is offshore, and, as a result of which, the issues about the ecologically fragile area, environmental damage and pollution in Dahanu Taluka would largely be done away with. The legal position is that the offshore area would fall within the complete domain of the Central government, and beyond the area of Dahanu Taluka,” Justice Arun B Chaudhari, Chairman, DTEPA, wrote in the 31 July order.

The JNPA's shift in the plan is also because the previous on-shore site would have presented difficulties associated with sourcing of material required for reclaiming 567 hectare from the sea.

Under the previous plan, JNPA had planned to use 80 million cubic metre of fragmented rocks from nearby hillocks in Palghar district.

The revised plan, however, entails sourcing 200 million cubic metre of earth from marine borrow pits located off the coast of Daman some 50-65 km away.

Vadhavan: A Mega Port Near Mumbai

The Union Cabinet in February 2020 had approved setting up Vadhavan Port under the Sagarmala Programme at a cost of Rs 65,544.54 crore.

Situated in a picturesque coastal tract, the Vadhavan Port has a natural draft of around 20 metre close to the shore, making it ideal to handle larger container vessels of 16,000-25,000 Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit (TEUs) capacity, giving the advantages of economies of scale and reducing logistics costs.

The JNPT and Mundra — the two largest container handling major ports of the country can handle only mid-size container ships as they have a draft of 15 metre and 16 metre, respectively.

Compared to this, the world's largest container handling modern deep draft ports require a draft of 18-20 metre.

The ever-increasing size of container ships makes it imperative that a deep draft container port in the west coast of India is developed, to accommodate such ships.

The deep-draft port at Vadhavan will be able to handle various types of cargos like containers, liquid including LNG, break bulk cargo etc. as the natural advantage of deeper draft of 20 metre will be availed.

The greenfield port at Vadhavan is also necessary to cater to the spillover traffic after JNPT’s planned capacity of 10 million TEUs is fully utilised.

The proposed deep draft port in Maharashtra is expected to have a container handling capacity of more than 23 million TEUs by 2040, thereby placing India on the global map of top 10 container ports.

 

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Gujarat: Next-Gen Container Terminal To Be Constructed At Tuna-Tekra To Enhance Port-Handling Capacity

Proposed container terminal in Gujarat.

The central government has firmed up plans for a crucial project for construction of a mega-container terminal at Tuna-Tekra near Kandla, in Gujarat.

The project aims to cater to future trade demand from northern, western and central India, connecting the regions to global markets.

Estimated to cost Rs 4,243.64 crore, the project will be executed through the public-private-partnership (PPP) mode.

The project aligns with the 'Vision 2047' of the government of India to quadruple port handling capacity and develop multimodal logistics infrastructure, to promote economic growth.

The container terminal will be fully compliant with the green port guidelines, ensuring sustainability in port operations by adopting best practices of port environment management, contributing towards the long-term sustainability goals set out by the government of India.

The Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways is committed towards developing the best infrastructure at ports for increasing the economic growth of the country.

Deendayal Port Authority, a leading major port on the west coast of India in Gujarat, is signing a concession agreement for the development, operation and maintenance of the new mega container terminal at Tuna-Tekra, Gujarat (near Kandla) with DP World, a multinational logistics company based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

The concession agreement will be signed on 25 August 2023, in the presence of Union Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways, Sarbananda Sonowal, Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem, group chairman and CEO of DP World and other dignitaries.

Once complete, the terminal will have annual capacity to handle 2.19 million container units (TEUs) with capability to handle next-generation vessels carrying more than 18,000 TEUs.

The 30-year PPP project agreement with a special purpose vehicle of Hindustan Infralog Private Limited (a joint venture of DP World and National Investment and Infrastructure Fund), is on build-operate-transfer basis, extendable upto 50 years.

The project is expected to add operational efficiency in terms of reduced congestion at Kandla creek, enhanced ability to handle mega container vessels, significant reduction in turn-around time and many other advantages for the creation of efficient and resilient supply chains in the country.

Equipped with multimodal connectivity through a wide network of roads, rail and highways, the terminal will provide a gateway between hinterland and the global markets.

The project is part of the national infrastructure pipeline and will complement initiatives of the government of India, such as the PM Gati Shakti Master Plan and National Logistics Policy.

 

[Azaad]

Very interesting & insightful interview at The India Today Enclave on the current status of our ports & what're our future plans in this sector plus what've achieved in the last 9-10 yrs in this sector ?!