The Mumbai Port Trust (MbPT) proposes to create dedicated facilities for containers, dry bulk, pre-shipment storage and related infrastructure and increase traffic to over 100 million tonne from the present level of 54.54 million tonne.

MbPT proposes to pump in Rs 1,460 crore for the development of offshore container terminal with two berths of 700 mtrs that are extendable by 350 mtrs. Of the total, Rs 1,015 crore will come from the BOT operator and the balance Rs 445 crore will be invested by MbPT. The terminal is slated to be completed by March 2012 and have a capacity of 1.2 million TEUs.

A Rs 1,861-crore investment has been earmarked to develop a cruise terminal that will have berth for handling two ships at a time and cater to 10 mtrs draft vessels. The cruise terminal is likely to comprise a marina, convention centre and other entertainment and recreation facilities.

The Trust is to set up a second liquid chemical berth to handle A,B,C grade chemicals with an investment of Rs 116 crore. The berth is likely to have draft of 11.5 mtrs and a capacity of two million tonne. It also plans to invest Rs 662 crore to develop new berths to handle fully-loaded Suezmax tankers.

Also plans are afoot to set up a dry bulk terminal of 1.75 million tonne capacity under PPP model with an investment of Rs 45 crore and Rs 30 crore-investment for developing a conventional cargo terminal of two million tonne capacity.

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