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Second container berth coming

Staff Reporter

TUTICORIN: The Tuticorin Port Trust has decided to hold a pre-qualification bid meeting with the bidders for the proposed conversion of Berth 8 into a full-fledged container berth on a Built-Operate-Transfer basis on July 25.

In a release issued here on Tuesday, N. K. Raghupathy, Chairman, TPT, said that 11 firms had procured the qualification documents, which were on sale between May 31 and June 24 after global tenders were invited to turn the Berth 8 into a container terminal on a public private partnership basis (i.e., BOT basis).

The 11 firms include ABG Heavy Industries Ltd., Mumbai, PSA SICAL Terminals Ltd, Tuticorin, Maersk India Pvt Ltd., Tuticorin, Hutchison Port Holdings Ltd., Hong Kong, South India Corporation (Agencies) Ltd., Tuticorin, Larsen & Toubro Limited, Chennai, Gammon India Ltd., Mumbai, Oceanic Transport Ltd., London, Chettinad Logistics Pvt. Ltd., Chennai, South India Corporation Ltd., Chennai, and AFCONS Infrastructure Ltd., Mumbai.

Mr. Raghupathy said that the due date for submitting filled-in pre-qualification bids was slated for August 24 and those who get short-listed from the bunch would be eligible to participate in the submission of price proposals.

`The proposed move to turn the Berth 8 into a container berth was initiated after an in-principle approval accorded by the Government of India during last October,' he said adding that the second container terminal would augment the container traffic through port by leaps and bounds over the next few years.

The Chairman said that the necessity for a second container berth had arisen after the container traffic touched an all time high of 3,07,310 TEUs (twenty foot equivalent units) during the last fiscal and it was anticipated that the traffic would touch 6 lakh TEUs by 2007-08 warranting one more full-fledged container berth.

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