(a) whether the Union Government have formulated any scheme for inviting investment from private sector for the modernisation and expansion of Indian ports;
(b) if so, the details thereof; and
(c) the names of port projects handed over to private sector so far and the names of new projects proposed to be handed over to them?
MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF SURFACE TRANSPORT
(SHRI HUKUMDEO NARAYAN YADAV)
(a)&(b) The following areas have been identified for private sector participation in port sector:-
(i) Leasing out existing assets of the port.
(ii) Construction/creation of additional assets, such as:
(a) construction and operation of container terminals.
(b) construction and operation of bulk, break bulk, multipurpose and specialised cargo berths.
(c) Warehousing, container Freight Stations, storage facilities and tank farms.
(d) Cranage/Handling Equipment.
(e) Setting up of captive power plants.
(f) Dry docking and ship repair facilities.
(iii) Leasing of equipment for port handling and leasing of floating crafts from the private sector.
(iv) Pilotage
(v) Captive facilities for port based industries
(c) The following 14 private sector/captive port projects have been approved so far:
S.No. PROJECT PORT
1. Container Terminal (2 berths) Jawaharlal Nehru (JNP)
2. Liquid Cargo berth JNP
3. Fifth Oil Jetty Kandla
4. Oil Jetty and related facilities Vadinar(Kandla)
5. Oil Jetty Kandla 6. Container Terminal Tuticorin
7 Oil Jetty Kandla
8. Oil Jetty Kandla
9. Multipurpose berth 5A Mormugao and 6 A 10. Captive Coal berth to SPIC Tuticorin Electric Corporation 11. Captive berth to Oswal Paradip Fertilizers Ltd. 12. Container Terminal Kandla 13. Captive coal and general cargo Mumbai berth at Pir Pau, Mumbai 14. Container Terminal Chennai
The following 7 projects are under bidding process:
S. No. PROJECT PORT
1. Two multipurpose berths Visakhapatnam
2. Container/transhipment Cochin terminal
3. Multipurpose berth no.4A at Calcutta Haldia
4. Coal berth New Mangalore
5. Marine Chemical Terminal Jawaharlal Nehru 6. Container Terminals Mumbai
7 General Cargo Terminals Mumbai