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Nine eye Chennai project
Singapore
Saudi box terminal
Nine foreign and local companies
box traffic
have submitted the request for
qualification (RFQ) document for
the development of India’s first
slumps
to open on schedule
Annual container handling capac-
isting ports and building new ter-
mega container terminal at In common with most ports in Asia, ity at Saudi Arabia’s Jeddah Islamic
minals to ease congestion and ca-
Chennai Port (see WorldCargo container throughput at the Port Port (JIP) will increase by 1.5M
ter for future growth.
News August 2008, p7). of Singapore plunged 19.8% year- TEU to 4.8M TEU when the
Gulf Stevedoring & Contract-
The nine companies are DP on-year in February and by 6.3% US$453M Red Sea Gateway Ter-
ing Co is building three more
World, GVK-Leighton Consor- from the January figure, according minal (RSGT) opens later this year.
berths at JIP’s Northern Container
tium, IL&FS Maritime Infrastruc- to data released by the Maritime “Work at the terminal is on
Terminal to boost capacity to
ture, Vadinar Oil Terminal, L&T and Port Authority of Singapore. schedule and we will commence
2.5M TEU/year, while the new
Transco Development Projects, After handling 1.97M TEU in operations in October,” chief op-
US$530M Bahrain Gateway at
Navayuga Engineering, Lanco January, total container through- erating officer Lye Seng Tang said.
Khalifa bin Salman Port, with an
Infratech, Mundra Port and SEZ put at Singapore terminals in Feb- The Saudi Port Authority
annual handling capacity of 2.5M
and the Malaysian FGI Group. ruary dropped to 1.85M TEU signed an agreement in January
TEU, is scheduled to begin op-
Chennai Port Trust (CPT)
The planned new terminal will boost capacity at Chennai by 4M TEU/year
compared with 2.31MTEU a year 2007 with a consortium now
erations in April (see WorldCargo
chairman K Suresh said the bid- earlier. State-owned PSA Singa- comprising The Saudi Trade &
News February 2009, p10).
ders will be shortlisted based on The 30-year build-operate- be operational in May this year. pore Terminals handled 3.72M Export Development Company
Elsewhere, the first phase of a
the scores they receive for their transfer project is expected to be The third terminal is a major TEU in the first two months of (Tusdeer), Saudi Industrial Serv-
US$4.4B project at Qatar is on
financial and technical abilities. ready within three to four years of initiative in achieving the long- 2009, down 19.7% year on year. ices Co, Xenel Industries and
track for completion in 2014 with
They will then be asked to sub- the award of the contract and will term vision of Chennai becoming A spokesman said the figures Malaysia’s MMC Corp to develop
an annual handling capacity of 2M
mit a request for proposal (RFP), have annual capacity of 4M TEU. India’s hub port, said Suresh. indicate ongoing weakness in trade RSGT on a 30-year build-oper-
TEU, which will be increased to
which includes the financial bid. DP World operates the exist- To meet the expected quan- as the worsening global economy ate-transfer (BOT) basis.
6M TEU by 2030.
The US$750M project covers ing Chennai Container Terminal, tum jump in port traffic, the cen- hits demand for Asian goods. RSGT placed orders last year
At the recent Middle East
eight berths on 2,000m of quay which handles more than 1.2M tral government, in collaboration Meanwhile DP World has re- for eight superpost-Panamax ship-
Ports Development 2009 confer-
with draft of 18m. The back-up area TEU a year, while a joint ven- with the Tamil Nadu state gov- ported that container volumes shore cranes and 26 RTGs with
ence, Neil Davidson of Drewry
will be 100 hectares and there will ture of Singapore’s PSA Interna- ernment and CPT, will build a 19 across the company’s global con- ZPMC, which will be delivered
Shipping Consultants said al-
be provision to increase the depth tional and India’s Sical Logistics km elevated expressway from the tainer terminal network declined in May. When fully operational,
though throughput growth is
alongside the berths to 20m to ac- is building a second 1M TEU/ port to the main national high- by an average of 8% in the first the terminal will enable JIP to
forecast to slow over the next two
commodate 15,000 TEU vessels. year facility, which is expected to way at a cost of US$338M. two months of 2009. handle ships of more than 12,000
years because of the global reces-
TEU along 1,045m of quay with
sion, current investments in ports
a draft of 18m, Tang said.
and related infrastructure in the
Middle East countries are in-
Middle East will bear fruit when
vesting heavily in expanding ex-
container trade rebounds.
Gulf Stevedoring & Contracting Co is building three more berths at Jeddah’s
Northern Container Terminal
“New” Fremantle
could be private
The Western Australian govern- have seen a private port operating
ment has appointed an expert in competition with the FPA, but
group to help guide the future ex- the plan was iced by the incoming
pansion of the port of Fremantle Labour government. The surprise
after strongly hinting it favours a re-election of the Liberals/Nation-
mid-1990s proposal from the James als last September has revived James
Forklift trucks, reachstackers
Point consortium over that of the Point’s fortunes.
Fremantle Port Authority (FPA). The Minister said the planning
“In recent years, port planning group would begin work immedi-
and terminal equipment
processes have been ad hoc and in- ately and report directly to him.
adequate, exemplified by issues such “For too long Fremantle Ports and
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