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Ok of the Indian government to build a new large container port
It will be built in Vadhavan, on the nation's west coast
February 12, 2020
The project envisages that the new airport will be adopted landlord model, with the state retaining ownership infrastructure and superstructures, while activities and port services will be entrusted to private operators. For the realization of the port will be established a Special Purpose Vehicle with the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT), the company running the port of Jawaharlal Nehru in the state of Maharashtra which is the main containerized port India, as a lead partner with a share of at least 50% capital.
The new port of Vadhavan will be built in waters in order to accommodate the container carriers of more large and will also include quotas traffic that cannot be moved from the port of Jawahrlal Nehru when the airport will take advantage of its entire current and designed containerized traffic capacity that 10 million teu and will be reached in the 2022-25 (in the year ending 31 March 2019, the airport 5,133,274 teu, up 6.2% year-on-year previous).
The new port of Vadhavan will have depth bottoms -20 meters, compared to depths of -15 and -16 Jawahrlal Nehru and Mundra ports which are currently the major domestic container ports, and it will be possible receive container carriers of 16,000-25,000 teu.
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The project envisages that the new airport will be adopted landlord model, with the state retaining ownership infrastructure and superstructures, while activities and port services will be entrusted to private operators. For the realization of the port will be established a Special Purpose Vehicle with the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT), the company running the port of Jawaharlal Nehru in the state of Maharashtra which is the main containerized port India, as a lead partner with a share of at least 50% capital.
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