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Kochi, Nov. 30 The civil works as part of the construction of the International Container Transhipment Terminal at Vallarpadam will begin on December 3 with a Bhoomi Puja at the project site in the morning.

The civil works contract was awarded to Simplex Infrastructures Ltd, a public listed civil engineering and construction company. The maximum period for the construction is 24 months.

A press statement issued here said that India Gateway Terminal Pvt Ltd has the mandate to build the ICTT and operate it for 30 years. The ICTT project site was declared a Special Economic Zone in November 2006. The environmental clearance for the ICTT was secured through the Ministry.

The work relating to the connectivity of road and rail to the project site is already under way. The Cochin Port Trust has already floated tenders for undertaking the capital dredging works to widen and deepen the channel. The draft at the ICTT will be 14.5 metres upon commissioning.

The Phase 1A of the ICTT will have 600 metres of quay serviced by six quay cranes. The terminal will have 3,500 ground slots with 450 reefer plug points to cater to the seafood trade and will be serviced by 15 Rubber Tyred Gantry Cranes 2 top lifters.

The terminal will have the capacity to handle 1 million TEUs per annum. There will be two rail loading and unloading lines serviced by three reach stackers. The rail connectivity will provide access to ICD’s situated as far away as Delhi, Ludhiana, Moradabad, Nagpur, Vijayawada and closer at Coimbatore, Bangalore and Chennai.

Strategically located on the main east-west global shipping lanes and as India’s largest individual terminal, the ICTT is destined to develop as the premier gateway to southern India, while offering an alternative to Sri Lanka and Singapore for container transhipment, the statement said.

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