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Tuesday, Sep 06, 2005
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Shipping Outer harbour development — Tuticorin port invites bids for feasibility report Our Bureau
Chennai , Sept. 5 THE Tuticorin Port Trust (TPT) has invited tenders from consultants for preparing a feasibility report for developing the outer harbour in the port. The project, which is estimated to cost Rs 2,150 crore, was recently approved by the Centre and included in the National Maritime Development Programme. The feasibility report would include deepening of dock basin to cater to 14.50 metre draught vessels, formation of breakwater and construction of berths with other provisions such as electrical installations, port safety and fire-fighting facilities. The report would focus on analysis of the existing situation, nature and magnitude of the problem to be addressed, need and justification for the project in the context of national private alternative strategies. It would also take care of initial environment and social impact analysis, preliminary site investigation based on earlier reports, stakeholder commitment and risk factor, says information available on the port trust's Web site. The report would contain traffic forecast up to 2025, vessel traffic analysis (selection of design vessels) and evaluation of optimised layout for outer harbour, breakwater system, area requirement for berth, dock basin, turning circle, channel dimension (length, width, depth) and back up area requirement. The Tuticorin port, which is an artificial harbour, has six alongside berths, one multipurpose berth, one container terminal, two coal jetties, one oil jetty and one shallow draught berth. The Tuticorin port, even after the ongoing construction projects and possible increase in the facilities inside the existing harbour, has to look for other developments for meeting these future needs. Also, by virtue of its location being the closest compared to the other Indian ports to the international marine container route, the port authorities intend to plan development of an outer harbour, information available in the Web site says.
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