Tuticorin port will triple its cargo handling capacity by 2020, from 23.18 million tonnes to 71 million tones, reported The Hindu.
This will be done in two stages - first by doubling capacity and then through capacity addition.
The doubling of capacity, according to Mr A. Subbiah, the chairman of the port, will be achieved within one-and-a-half to two years as the work on three major projects - capital dredging and construction of North Cargo Berths 1 and 2 - will be over by that time.
In 2009-10 the port, complete with 14 berths, handled 23.78 million tonnes and the target for the current fiscal has been set at 25.23 million tones.
If the trend is any indication, the target will be surpassed, said Subbiah. But it will be wrong to presume that everything is hunky-dory. With the present container berth, operated by Port of Singapore Authority, having virtually reached saturation, there is a proposal to convert a cargo berth into a container berth. But the proposal is not making much headway. |
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Source: cargonewsasia
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