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Consultants approved for cruise terminal

Staff Reporter

KOCHI: The Board of the Cochin Port Trust has approved appointment of MIR Projects and Consultants based here and its associate, U.S.-based TranSystems, as consultants for the international cruise terminal project.

The consortium will evolve a business plan and submit a feasibility report within four months, said a spokesman for the trust.

The terminal is being built as tourist-cum-public facility. The increasing importance of Kochi as a world-class cruise destination has made the trust think of building a world-class terminal.

The feasibility report will be forwarded to the Union Ministry for Shipping to get approvals for calling bids for the project, the spokesman said.

On the drawing board for more than three years now, the terminal project is being envisaged on a public-private partnership model. The project is part of the Union Ministry's National Maritime Development Programme.

According to the current plans, the bidding process will end by the first half of 2008 and the terminal can be commissioned by August 2010. The trust has earmarked about five hectares of waterfront land for the terminal and a plaza with a wide variety of facilities, including trade exhibition and cultural centres.

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