The Hindu Business Line : Kolkata okays construction of two new jetties

The Board of Trustees of the Kolkata port recently approved the proposals for the construction of two new jetties on the riverfront (Hooghly river) of the Haldia dock.

Already there are three such jetties (Nos. 1,2,3) on the riverfront, all handling liquid bulk items, mainly crude and petroleum products.

The proposed two jetties will be multipurpose types, to handle various types of cargoes including petroleum products.

The smaller jetty will be designed to handle mainly barges and also smaller ocean-going vessels, including small petroleum product tankers, while the bigger one should be able to handle larger vessels, up to the Panamax type, not in full load though.

The smaller of the proposed two jetties will have a length of 175 metres and will cost a little more than Rs 47 crore while the bigger one with a length of more than 300 metres is estimated to cost nearly Rs 100 crore.

The cost estimate for the smaller jetty covers, among other things, the cost of civil construction, construction of roads, development of backup area (12,500 sq. mt.) and dredging, according to a spokesman for Haldia dock.

The cost estimate for the bigger jetty includes, among other things, civil construction of the jetty, development of backup area (14,500 sq mt), construction of a five-km long road and seven-km long rail connectivity.

The cost of mechanisation of the jetties will be additional. The construction of the smaller jetty also presupposes shifting of the present tug jetty to a new site on the riverfront at a cost of Rs 65 lakh.

At present, the rapid EIA (environment impact assessment) studies for both the jetties are in progress. After three months, the dock authorities hope to obtain the construction clearance for the smaller jetty, but not for the bigger one. The clearance for the bigger jetty will take time. "Since the cost of the project is high, we have to obtain the PIB approval first for the bigger one," said the spokesman pointing out no such approval would be needed for the smaller jetty whose tender, it was therefore hoped, could be floated after the monsoon.

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