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The ambitious outer harbour improvement task of V.O. Chidambaranar Port, for which Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid instauration chromatic successful February 2024, is being redesigned arsenic imaginable capitalist for this ₹7,000 crore-worth task could not beryllium identified, Chairman of V.O. Chidambaranar Port Authority Susanta Kumar Purohit has said.
Speaking to reporters astatine the India Maritime Week 2025 celebrations held present connected Tuesday, Mr. Purohit said the outer harbour development, which was to beryllium implemented astatine the outgo of ₹7,000 crore with backstage information aft Mr. Narendra Modi laid instauration chromatic for this task successful February 2024, had to beryllium revisited arsenic imaginable investors could not beryllium identified for this monolithic investment.
As this connection was being redesigned, caller elaborate task study was being prepared for submission with Ministry of Shipping and Ports earlier March 2026 for the mandatory approval.
“Once the motion is obtained, enactment connected the ambitious outer harbour improvement volition beryllium commenced,” Mr. Purohit said.
According to sources successful the Port, the full task is to beryllium implemented successful aggregate phases truthful that uncovering investor, who volition person to put lone successful phases, would beryllium an casual affair.
Highlighting the large achievements of the V.O.C Port during the existent fiscal, Mr. Purohit said installation of nexus conveyor from Coal Jetty – 1 to Port Coal Stock Yard had been completed connected an outlay of ₹24.50 crore to heighten the Port’s ember handling capableness to 0.72 cardinal metric tonnes per annum with the discharge complaint of 2,000 tonnes per hour. The 14.20 metre draught astatine turning ellipse had been expanded from 488 meters to 550 meters to facilitate the larboard to grip the vessels up to 95,000 dormant value tonnes.
As the North Cargo Berth – 3 had been completed with 14.20 metre draught astatine the outgo of ₹285 crore, it has the capableness to grip 7 cardinal tonnes of coal, limestone, gypsum and stone phosphate each year. Mechanisation of this Berth is going connected astatine the outgo of ₹265.15 crore. The 365 meter-long ninth berth of VOC Port had been converted into instrumentality terminal connected an outlay of ₹434.17 crore to grip six lakh TEUs per annum.
On the large ongoing projects, the Chairman said the operation of Berth 10 with 7.40 hectares backup gait was going connected to grip 10 millon tonnes of multi cargo and 1.25 lakh dormant value tonnage vessels. To guarantee the faster question of the trucks to and from the Port, the four-lane road was being laid to link the Port’s Point of Supply and Tuticorin Thermal Power Station ‘roundtana’.
“Even arsenic the widening of the Port’s entranceway transmission from existing 153 meters to 230 meters has been taken-up astatine the outgo of ₹16.39 crore, different large milestone the Port has crossed is the nonstop admittance of factory-stuffed, e-sealed export containers into the Port terminals round-the-clock bypassing intermediate handling astatine Container Freight Stations,” Mr. Purohit said.
The Chairman said the interior harbour and transmission dredging would beryllium taken-up astatine the outgo of ₹1,000 crore for handling bigger vessels and the vessel gathering and repair installation created connected an outlay of ₹700 crore.
“We’ve besides projected to instal off-shore upwind turbines astatine the outgo of ₹146 crore and found ₹67.44 crore-desalination works with the capableness of 3 cardinal liters a day,” helium informed.
To heighten the information and surveillance of the Port, ₹25 crore has been earmarked.
The Port, which has embarked upon a bid of greenish initiatives, has commissioned greenish hydrogen aviator task astatine the outgo of ₹4.50 crore to powerfulness the thoroughfare lights and E-car charging facilities of the harbour and thereby to boost the investors’ assurance successful starting greenish hydrogen manufacturing installation here. Moreover, six MW windmills astatine the outgo of ₹59.29 crore and the installation to nutrient 8,000 litres a time greenish methanol from municipal discarded were successful the pipeline.
“To trim the c emission, we’ve projected to prosecute greenish tug costing ₹150 crore to trim c emanation and to deploy greenish substance vehicles connected an outlay of ₹100 crore,” Mr. Purohit said.
