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India’s larboard capableness has much than doubled successful the past 10 years and the vessel turnaround clip reduced by 50%, Union Minister for Ports, Shipping and Waterways Sarbananda Sonowal said present connected Thursday.
While speaking astatine the lawsuit “Viksit Ports, Viksit Bharat” organised by the Chennai Port Authority and Kamarajar Port Limited, helium said, cruise tourism grew by 400%. “Today, nine of our large ports fertile successful the apical 100 ports of the satellite and we are amended than precocious maritime nations successful assorted cardinal larboard show indicators,” helium said.
Mr. Sonowal inaugurated and laid the instauration chromatic for projects worthy ₹235 crore. He inaugurated two port projects—Enterprise Business System (EBS) developed astatine a outgo of ₹45 crore which decreases paperwork, reduces delays and improves turnaround astatine Chennai Port and Rehabilitated Northern Breakwater Head astatine a outgo of ₹105 crore astatine Kamarajar Port.
He besides laid instauration chromatic for 4 port projects which see strengthening of coastal revetment down coastal berth (850 metre) astatine a cost of ₹33.28 crore, which improves semipermanent coastal resilience and protects port infrastructure astatine Chennai Port, operation of bound partition astatine North West bound which links Northern Port Access Road astatine ₹1.39 crore for Kamarajar Port, new firefighting pump location astatine the Oil Dock Area astatine ₹43 crore astatine Chennai Port and improvement enactment astatine Chennai Port Hospital astatine Rs 8.08 crore.
In Tamil Nadu, nether the Sagarmala Programme determination are 98 projects worthy about ₹93,400 crore of which 54 projects worth ₹37,617 crore person already been completed, and the remainder are successful assorted stages of development, helium added.
“Kamarajar Port Ltd. stands arsenic a diversified, resilient, and future-ready port. During the fiscal twelvemonth 2024–25, it handled a full cargo measurement of 48.41 cardinal tonnes, with a maturation complaint of astir 7% against the erstwhile year,” helium added.
At the planetary level, the World Bank ranked Kamarajar Port arsenic the 3rd champion tiny instrumentality port in the 2023 Container Port Performance Index, and the port, helium said.
S Viswanathan, chairperson, Chennai Port Authority, J P Irene Cynthia, managing director, Kamarajar Port Limited and Malini V Shankar, vice chancellor, Indian Maritime University besides spoke.
