Mumbai Port Trust has yet again extended the last date for bidding submitting technical and financial bids for the offshore container terminal project. The new deadline -- the fourteenth in the past two years -- is 9 October 2006. The extension follows delays in completing the paperwork relating to Manila-based International Container Terminal Services, the new bidding partner of Larsen & Toubro.

L&T roped in ICTS following ministerial delays in granting security clearance to its original partner -- Hong Kong-based Hutchison Port Holdings. The Union government, in early August 2006, denied security clearance to HPH and also two other companies having Chinese connections. It was this delay in deciding on giving clearances to China-based companies that held up the Mumbai Port Trust offshore container terminal project for over two years.

ICTS, it may be mentioned, has already received the security clearance in 2004 whilst it was bidding for the Vallarpadam international container terminal project in Kerala.

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