Vizhinjam Tender - 5 consortiums bid
The list of consortiums announced are as follows.
1.M/s Zoom Developers + Portial Management Services, UK + Peter Fraenkel & Partners, UK
2. M/S Lanco Infratech Pvt Ltd + Lanco Power + Pembinaan Redzai Sdn Bdh
3. M/S D.S Constructions + Apollo Enterprises Ltd + KGL Ports International, Dubai
4. M/S Nagarjuna Construction Company Ltd + Maysta Infratech + OPM, Singapore
5.M/s Videocon Industries Ltd + Gammon India + Gammon Infra + Sical Logistics.
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Ensure Central aid for Vizhinjam project: Janapaksham
Ensure Central aid for Vizhinjam project: Janapaksham
T'PURAM: Janapaksham, Thiruvananthapuram, has urged the State Government to ensure Central aid for the proposed deepwater container transshipment hub at Vizhinjam as the cut-off date for submitting tenders is nearing.
Central aid is imperative for the Vizhinjam Port since road and rail connectivity had to be developed for it, the executive committee of Janapaksham, which met here on Sunday, reminded the government.
The Centre had earmarked Rs 500 crore for developing ports under the State Governments.
The fund is used to develop rail and road connectivity to the ports and is issued through State Maritime Boards, Janapaksham general secretary Swaminathan said in a statement.
Since Vizhinjam is planned as the first mother port in the country, it should be accorded special consideration by the Centre, he said. Janapaksham president Elias John presided.
The State Government had fixed January 31 as the final date for submitting bids for the Rs 5,328-crore project.
In fact, the cut-off date is the fourth one fixed by the government after the companies sought more time.
Because of this, the schedule for the project set in April last year has been chucked into the bin.
According to the schedule, the construction of the port should begin in December 2008. Now it is almost sure that it is not going to happen.
T'PURAM: Janapaksham, Thiruvananthapuram, has urged the State Government to ensure Central aid for the proposed deepwater container transshipment hub at Vizhinjam as the cut-off date for submitting tenders is nearing.
Central aid is imperative for the Vizhinjam Port since road and rail connectivity had to be developed for it, the executive committee of Janapaksham, which met here on Sunday, reminded the government.
The Centre had earmarked Rs 500 crore for developing ports under the State Governments.
The fund is used to develop rail and road connectivity to the ports and is issued through State Maritime Boards, Janapaksham general secretary Swaminathan said in a statement.
Since Vizhinjam is planned as the first mother port in the country, it should be accorded special consideration by the Centre, he said. Janapaksham president Elias John presided.
The State Government had fixed January 31 as the final date for submitting bids for the Rs 5,328-crore project.
In fact, the cut-off date is the fourth one fixed by the government after the companies sought more time.
Because of this, the schedule for the project set in April last year has been chucked into the bin.
According to the schedule, the construction of the port should begin in December 2008. Now it is almost sure that it is not going to happen.
CPM calls for rethink on blacklisting Chinese cos
EW DELHI: After Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s China visit, the CPM has revived its demand for a rethink on blacklisting certain Chinese companies. The party, which is still peeved over the government’s decision to close doors to a Chinese consortium from investing in the Vizhinjam Port Project, said the bilateral trade figures, despite security considerations, show “tremendous potential” of economic co-operation between the two countries.
“There is now bound to be a serious rethink in India on the question of visa restrictions and the blacklisting of certain Chinese companies, given that they have qualified global tenders as it happened in the offshore agencies in Kerala,” polit bureau member Sitaram Yechury said in an editorial in the CPM mouthpiece, People’s Democracy.
To drive home the point, the CPM also drew attention to the relations between China and Taiwan. “The People’s Republic of China having succeeded in reintegrating Hong Kong and Macau with the mainland is seeking to do so with Taiwan, which it considers as an integral part of China. In spite of this position and its consequent irritants in political, diplomatic and military spheres, Taiwan remains an important economic partner, both in terms of trade and investment with China,” Mr Yechury said.
The UPA government had decided against allowing Chinese companies from investing in or managing any Indian port citing security reasons. After Hong Kong-based Hutichison Port Holdings, which had bid for building container terminals for Mumbai and Chennai, it was a Chinese consortium to which the Rs 4,000-crore Vizhinjam project was awarded that fell target to the government’s decision.
The Left parties had opposed the government decision to ban Chinese companies from entering the port sector and sought a level-playing field for all countries.
With India and China announcing a new trade target of $60 billion during Mr Singh’s recent tour of the country, the CPM viewed the recognition that “stronger economic relationship between India and China could well move the centre of economic gravity of the world towards Asia” as the most important aspect of the visit.
Mr Yechury said this in itself will go a long way in the movement towards “global multi-polarity”.He said the visit was “highly successful” which has taken forward both the improvement of bilateral relations and the joint role that both the countries ought to play in international affairs. “It is clearly in the mutual interests of both India and China to carry forward this process,” he said.
On the border dispute, he said the two sides seem to have converged on the understanding that co-operation in other fields should proceed and be strengthened. Mr Yechury also recalled that it took China more than seven decades to resolve its border dispute with the former USSR.
“There is now bound to be a serious rethink in India on the question of visa restrictions and the blacklisting of certain Chinese companies, given that they have qualified global tenders as it happened in the offshore agencies in Kerala,” polit bureau member Sitaram Yechury said in an editorial in the CPM mouthpiece, People’s Democracy.
To drive home the point, the CPM also drew attention to the relations between China and Taiwan. “The People’s Republic of China having succeeded in reintegrating Hong Kong and Macau with the mainland is seeking to do so with Taiwan, which it considers as an integral part of China. In spite of this position and its consequent irritants in political, diplomatic and military spheres, Taiwan remains an important economic partner, both in terms of trade and investment with China,” Mr Yechury said.
The UPA government had decided against allowing Chinese companies from investing in or managing any Indian port citing security reasons. After Hong Kong-based Hutichison Port Holdings, which had bid for building container terminals for Mumbai and Chennai, it was a Chinese consortium to which the Rs 4,000-crore Vizhinjam project was awarded that fell target to the government’s decision.
The Left parties had opposed the government decision to ban Chinese companies from entering the port sector and sought a level-playing field for all countries.
With India and China announcing a new trade target of $60 billion during Mr Singh’s recent tour of the country, the CPM viewed the recognition that “stronger economic relationship between India and China could well move the centre of economic gravity of the world towards Asia” as the most important aspect of the visit.
Mr Yechury said this in itself will go a long way in the movement towards “global multi-polarity”.He said the visit was “highly successful” which has taken forward both the improvement of bilateral relations and the joint role that both the countries ought to play in international affairs. “It is clearly in the mutual interests of both India and China to carry forward this process,” he said.
On the border dispute, he said the two sides seem to have converged on the understanding that co-operation in other fields should proceed and be strengthened. Mr Yechury also recalled that it took China more than seven decades to resolve its border dispute with the former USSR.
Friday, September 14, 2007
Reliance looking for specialist container terminal operator
Mumbai: Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Industries Ltd will hire a global container terminal operator for its planned 2.6 million twenty-foot equivalent units (teu) a year facility at the Rewas port in Maharashtra.
A teu is the standard size of a container and is a common measure of capacity in the container business.
“We don’t have expertise in running container terminals,” said K.V. Natarajan, president, Rewas Ports Ltd. “Hence, we plan to have a strategic alliance with a global specialist in running container terminals or a container shipping firm and have started a dialogue in that direction.” He declined to elaborate.
Rewas Ports, which is 65% owned by various group companies operating under Reliance Industries, is building an all-weather deep draught (depth) port just 10km south of the central-government owned Jawaharlal Nehru Port, India’s busiest container port.
Amma Lines Ltd holds a 24% stake in Rewas Ports, while the balance 11% equity is owned by Maharashtra Maritime Board, the maritime regulator that oversees the development of ports owned by the state government.
Rewas port will be built in three phases. The first phase development costing Rs5,114 crore will involve 10 cargo handling berths with a capacity to handle 55 million tonnes (mt) of cargo. The new port will start operations on a 50-year contract beginning October 2010.
Since it is a port owned by the state government, Rewas Ports will be free to fix its own tariffs without consulting a regulator. However, the tariffs for cargo handling services at the 12 Union government-owned ports are set by the Tariff Authority for Major Ports.
When fully operational by 2040, Rewas port will have 70 berths with a capacity to handle 457mt of cargo, which is almost equal to the total cargo handled at the 12 Union government ports in the country.
These 12 ports handled 464mt of cargo in the 12 months to March 2007, compared with a capacity of 508mt.
Natarajan said that Rewas Ports will float global tenders in September to award the dredging work at the port that is estimated to cost about Rs1,800 crore.
The port will have a depth of 14.5 metres to start with and this will be increased to 20 metres in a phased manner.
The dredging contract at Rewas will be the biggest of such work ever executed in the country, bigger than the dredging work for the Sethusamudram ship channel project. It involves dredging 120 million cubic metres of stone, mud, sand and silt from the seabed.
A consortium of banks led by ICICI Bank Ltd has agreed to lend about Rs3,400 crore for the phase one development of the port, Natarajan said.
According to the union shipping ministry, the container cargo traffic at Indian ports is expected to grow to 12.5 million teu by 2011-12. Of this, 93% or 11.7 million teu are expected to be handled by the 12 Union government-owned ports.
The balance would be handled at ports owned by the state governments and which are being developed with private investments such as Rewas, Mundra, Pipavav, Hazira, Gangavaram, Pondicherry, Vizhinjam, Vijaydurg and Dighi, among others.
A teu is the standard size of a container and is a common measure of capacity in the container business.
“We don’t have expertise in running container terminals,” said K.V. Natarajan, president, Rewas Ports Ltd. “Hence, we plan to have a strategic alliance with a global specialist in running container terminals or a container shipping firm and have started a dialogue in that direction.” He declined to elaborate.
Rewas Ports, which is 65% owned by various group companies operating under Reliance Industries, is building an all-weather deep draught (depth) port just 10km south of the central-government owned Jawaharlal Nehru Port, India’s busiest container port.
Amma Lines Ltd holds a 24% stake in Rewas Ports, while the balance 11% equity is owned by Maharashtra Maritime Board, the maritime regulator that oversees the development of ports owned by the state government.
Rewas port will be built in three phases. The first phase development costing Rs5,114 crore will involve 10 cargo handling berths with a capacity to handle 55 million tonnes (mt) of cargo. The new port will start operations on a 50-year contract beginning October 2010.
Since it is a port owned by the state government, Rewas Ports will be free to fix its own tariffs without consulting a regulator. However, the tariffs for cargo handling services at the 12 Union government-owned ports are set by the Tariff Authority for Major Ports.
When fully operational by 2040, Rewas port will have 70 berths with a capacity to handle 457mt of cargo, which is almost equal to the total cargo handled at the 12 Union government ports in the country.
These 12 ports handled 464mt of cargo in the 12 months to March 2007, compared with a capacity of 508mt.
Natarajan said that Rewas Ports will float global tenders in September to award the dredging work at the port that is estimated to cost about Rs1,800 crore.
The port will have a depth of 14.5 metres to start with and this will be increased to 20 metres in a phased manner.
The dredging contract at Rewas will be the biggest of such work ever executed in the country, bigger than the dredging work for the Sethusamudram ship channel project. It involves dredging 120 million cubic metres of stone, mud, sand and silt from the seabed.
A consortium of banks led by ICICI Bank Ltd has agreed to lend about Rs3,400 crore for the phase one development of the port, Natarajan said.
According to the union shipping ministry, the container cargo traffic at Indian ports is expected to grow to 12.5 million teu by 2011-12. Of this, 93% or 11.7 million teu are expected to be handled by the 12 Union government-owned ports.
The balance would be handled at ports owned by the state governments and which are being developed with private investments such as Rewas, Mundra, Pipavav, Hazira, Gangavaram, Pondicherry, Vizhinjam, Vijaydurg and Dighi, among others.
Saturday, July 7, 2007
Babu Rajeev is Vizhinjam Sea Port MD
Thiruvananthapuram, July 6: The Kerala Government today appointed Mr C Babu Rajeev as the Managing Director of the Vizhinjam International Seaport Ltd.
Briefing newspersons here after a meeting of the state Cabinet, Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan said the senior official earlier held the posts of chairman of the Kochi Port Trust and Managing Director of the Cochin International Airport Ltd (CIAL).
The Kerala government was according utmost priority to the implementation of the project which has a huge potential to boost the economy of the state.The project structured in public-private partnership (PPP) format is envisaged in three phases. The estimated cost of the Phase I development is Rs. 1,850 crore and that for the whole project Rs 4,360 crore.
The company was set up mainly to provide external support infrastructure like road- rail connectivity, water and power supply to the port, facilitating the establishment of port-based special economic zone and free trade warehousing zones apart from overseeing the implementation of the port project by the private developer.
Thiruvananthapuram, July 6: The Kerala Government today appointed Mr C Babu Rajeev as the Managing Director of the Vizhinjam International Seaport Ltd.
Briefing newspersons here after a meeting of the state Cabinet, Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan said the senior official earlier held the posts of chairman of the Kochi Port Trust and Managing Director of the Cochin International Airport Ltd (CIAL).
The Kerala government was according utmost priority to the implementation of the project which has a huge potential to boost the economy of the state.The project structured in public-private partnership (PPP) format is envisaged in three phases. The estimated cost of the Phase I development is Rs. 1,850 crore and that for the whole project Rs 4,360 crore.
The company was set up mainly to provide external support infrastructure like road- rail connectivity, water and power supply to the port, facilitating the establishment of port-based special economic zone and free trade warehousing zones apart from overseeing the implementation of the port project by the private developer.
Friday, June 1, 2007
Vizhinjam: Pact signed with RITES
Our Bureau
Thiruvananthapuram May 31 The Kerala Government has signed an agreement with Rail India Technical and Economic Service Ltd (RITES) for preparing a detailed report on establishing road and rail connectivity to the proposed international container transhipment terminal at Vizhinjam, near here.
The Minister for Ports, Mr M. Vijayakumar, who presided over the function here on Thursday, said that the contract for execution of the project was expected to be finalised by December.
Thiruvananthapuram May 31 The Kerala Government has signed an agreement with Rail India Technical and Economic Service Ltd (RITES) for preparing a detailed report on establishing road and rail connectivity to the proposed international container transhipment terminal at Vizhinjam, near here.
The Minister for Ports, Mr M. Vijayakumar, who presided over the function here on Thursday, said that the contract for execution of the project was expected to be finalised by December.
Sunday, May 6, 2007
V-MAC Painting Competition - Prize -Golden Ship
On May 13th Sunday , Vizhinjam Motherport Action Council is organising a Painting competition for children and young people .
Theme "Vizhinjam - My Dream"
The competition will be held at Sankhumukham beach . Time 4-5pm
Spot Registration only. Registration free.
Participants will have to bring the painting materials. Drawing paper will be provided .
Competition will be for two categories : Children upto 5th std (those who wrote exams of V)
Children from 6th std onwards. Upto Plus 2 students can participate
First Prize - a "Golden Ship"
Second and Third prizes - smaller ships
+ Gift Hampers
Certicates will be given to all
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