Tuticorin Port Trust will hold a
pre-qualification bid meeting on 25 July 2005 with all the bidders for
developing the second container terminal. In all, 11 entities have procured the
tender documents.
The bidders are ABG Heavy Industries, PSA Sical
Terminals, APM Terminals, Hutchison Port Holdings, South India Corporation
(Agencies), Larsen & Toubro, Gammon India, Oceanic Transport (London),
Chettinad Logistics, South India Corporation Ltd and Afcons Infrastructure.
The container traffic at the present (the port's
only) terminal, operated by PSA Sical, had touched an all-time high of 3.07 lakh
TEUs in 2004-05.
It is estimated that the container traffic would
touch 6 lakh TEUs by 2007-08, warranting one more terminal.
TPT plans to develop the existing Berth No. 8 as
a second container terminal with requisite infrastructure facilities on BOT
basis. Container traffic at the port is estimated to touch 6 lakh TEUs by
2007-08.
Also See:
Tuticorin
box terminal project: PSA-Sical allowed to bid (04-Jun-05)