Four companies - Afcons
Infrastructure, Simplex Infrastructure, ITD Cementation and LNG Infrastructure -
have been shorlisted for India Gateway Terminal's Vallarpadam International
Transshipment Container Terminal (VITCT) project at Kochi in Ernakulam district
of Kerala.
The deadline for submitting bids for
the construction of VITCT ended on 29 August 2007. The commercial and technical
bids of these companies will be evaluated by DP World and Royal Haskoning,
Netherlands, consultants of the project. Contract for the same will be awarded
by October 2007 and work on the Rs.2,200-crore project will commence henceforth.
Though the DP World had shortlisted
six companies for submitting the final bid, only four responded. Meanwhile, the
earth-filling work that began in March 2007 has been completed and 275,000 cubic
metres of land has been filled.
Also See:
Vallarpadam ICTT:
Civil work to commence by December (17-Jul-07)
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