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November 22, 2008


Ennore Port shortlists 6 firms for container terminal

BS reported that Ennore Port Limited has short listed 5 consortiums and 1 individual company to build its proposed container terminal at an estimated cost of INR 1,300 crore.

As per report, around 40 companies had shown interest but only 5 consortiums and 1 company were short listed for request for qualification. These companies will now go to the next stage, which is request for proposal. The consortium companies are

1. NYK Line, Evergreen Marine, Hyundai Marine with ZIM Port

2. Group Maritime JCBSL with Obrascon Huarte Lain SA, GE Mauritius International Holdings and Eredene Holding Capital

3. Sterlite Industries along with Eurogate and KG Mota Engle

4. Gammon Infrastructure Projects with Dragados Servicious, Portuarilou Logistics and Leighton Contract India Limited

5. Larsen & Toubro with John Keels Holdings

The only company to bid for the terminal on its own is APM Terminals BV.

Some of the international bidders who are out of the race include Dubai government owned DP World, PSA International of Singapore, Mundra Port and SEZ with Neptune Orient Lines and GVK Power and Infrastructure along with Mitsui and Company.

Mr S Velumani CMD of Ennore Port said that "Work on the project would commence in the next 6 months. The terminal is likely to start operations by mid 2011. The project will be built on the public private partnership model. "He added that it is also planning to build a four lane road linking the new terminal with NH-V. The National Highways Authority of India has prepared the project report and is awaiting the shipping ministry's clearance. The new terminal will come with 125 acres of container yard adjoining the kilometer wide berth.

Mr Velumani said that once the terminal starts operations, it will be able to simultaneously handle three mainline vessels with capacities of 8,000 TEUs each, as well as four feeder vessels. He added that the terminal is expected to handle around 1.5 million TEUs in its first year of operations.