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December 03, 2008


Shipping ministry to appoint consultants for deep draught ports

BS reported that union ministry of shipping has short listed consultants for the deep sea port that would come up in West Bengal. The project is one of the five deep sea ports planned in the 11th Plan.

Mr Rakesh Srivastava joint secretary at department of shipping said that one of the 5 deep sea ports planned in the 11th Plan would come up in West Bengal. Consultants were short listed for this project.

Mr Srivastava said that centre would set up a corpus of INR 5,000 crore for the development of small and medium ports. He added that about 360 projects were identified for development with a total outlay of INR 55,401 crore. Of this, the private sector would contribute INR 36,868 crore. About 16 projects were operational with private investments to the tune of INR 5,020 crore.