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Virendra Pandit

Travelling time to Mundra has come down by 3 hours

Mundra (Gujarat), Feb. 4

With the commissioning of an aerodrome on January 30, the Adani Group-promoted Mundra Special Economic Zone (SEZ) becomes the first SEZ in the country to have both a seaport as well as an airport within it.

The company said that the aerodrome is self-contained and has facilities for navigation, fire control, ambulance, etc.

The airport has a 1,900-m-long airstrip and can handle executive jets with ease.

With the commissioning of this airport, the travelling time to Mundra has come down by three hours, as commuters are not required to travel by road from either Bhuj or Kandla, which are located nearly 60 km from the SEZ.

The Mundra aerodrome became fully functional on January 30 for landing and take-off of executive jets.

The company is evaluating the possibilities of creating world-class greens in the aerodrome area, which can be used to establish a golf course with 12 holes at a future date.

Mundra Port and Special Economic Zone Ltd was created last year by integrating two of Adani Group's infrastructure projects - Gujarat Adani Port Ltd and the Mundra SEZ Ltd - to leverage expertise acquired in logistics management.

The new entity is developing and managing the largest privately developed port in the country and a multi-sector SEZ spread over 100 sq km in Kutch district.

The port has been operational since 1998 and cargo volumes are anticipated to touch 50 million tonnes by 2010 from the current level of 18 million tonnes.

The SEZ is envisaged as a multi-sector, multi-modal one and is benchmarked with the best such zones in the world.

Its logistical advantage is the rail, road, sea and air connectivity and the operational convenience afforded by the combination of a port and an SEZ, a company release said.

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