Deep water Mundra to add CT to boost capacity 50pc

NORTH WEST India's Mundra Port, the nation's biggest privately owned container port, has announced it will build a new container terminal and increase its capacity 50 per cent from two million to three million TEU.

The new terminal, the third in the state of Gujarat, is to open in 2012, according to Containerisation International. Mundra has the deepest water of any port in India and has lured containerships from Nhava Sheva near Mumbai.

The port is the showpiece of the town of Mundra (pop 600,000) and has changed the economic landscape of the region, says the Wikipedia entry. Some 60,000 people, most of them migrants, live in the port itself.

The Port of Mundra has also been designated a special economic zone. Incorporated in 1998 as Gujarat Adani Port Limited (GAPL), the company began operating in 2001. The Mundra Special Economic Zone was incorporated in 2003 and was merged with GAPL in 2006. The combined company was renamed Mundra Port and Special Economic Zone Limited.

During the January 2001 Gujarat earthquake, Mundra was the only place in the district of Kutch which was not affected.
(Source:www.schednet.com)