Aegis Group has successfully commissioned Phase I of the bulk liquid terminal located at Haldia in West Bengal.

The bulk liquid terminal is a greenfield project with 19 tanks totaling to the storage capacity of 60,190 KL. With the commissioning of Phase I, five tanks will be operational and will have a storage capacity of 15,100 KL. Aegis is confident enough to commission the remaining part of the capacity by Q1 of FY 14. The terminal shall store & handle liquid cargo, furnace oil, lube oil, etc. With this new capacity at Haldia, Aegis Group will be handling liquid volumes of over 2.5 million tonne and Gas volumes of over 750,000 tonne.

The expanded facilities at the Eastern Port shall enable the company to expand its horizons by catering to market of North-East and Eastern States as well as opportunity to handle products for neighboring Countries, viz. Bangladesh, Nepal, etc.

Haldia Port is a part of Kolkata Port, situated on the bank of the Hooghly river. The Port serves a vast hinterland consisting of almost the entire country’s east and north-east, Nepal and Bhutan. It has three operating oil jetties for hazardous liquid cargo and two Finger Jetties for handling non-hazardous liquid chemical cargo. The Port caters to the demand from Haldia Industrial Area, Durgapur and Asansol industrial belt which has Large Refinery, Petrochemical Plant and major Chemical Industries. The new Project shall be a step towards Company’s strategy of building a necklace of port terminals around India’s coast line from Pipavav to Kochi to Haldia, inland oil terminals on a BOO basis to service the national oil companies and developing a retail distribution network for the LPG business.

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