India: Seaports and Shipping

[dreadathecontrols]

I go on this thread not alot, but acctually its the single most important aspect of Indias developemnet, and very interesting.Not very glamerous but fundamantal as trade is sea based.
it sounds like there are many modernising port projects on the go which includes privitisation & inter state competition.India needs to get its turnaround time sorted out.
HK average 8 hrs. Mumbai 4 pissing days ...Each hour is £££ lost for everyone.
Prognosis is good though

[Cov Boy]

India needs to get its turnaround time sorted out.
HK average 8 hrs. Mumbai 4 pissing days

LOL!

[ajithv]

With over 30 bid documents purchased so far, the response to the upcoming Vizhinjam international container transshipment terminal in Kerala is expected to be encouraging. A senior official of IL&FS, project consultant looking after the bidding process, confirmed that 33 bid documents were purchased till December 15, 2007. The last date for submission of bids has been extended to January 31, 2008, following requests by some bidders. This is the second attempt by the state government to seek developers for the
Rs 4,300 crore transshipment terminal that is designed to handle 4.3 million TEUs of container traffic (see box).
While the names of those purchasing the bid documents are not available, over 40 entities - both domestic and international - attended the pre-bid meeting that was held in April 2007. Indian companies included Reliance Industries (Mukesh Ambani Group), Gammon India, Shipping Corporation of India, L&T-ECC, Soma Enterprise, Zoom Developers, JM Baxi Group, Lanco Infratech, Reliance Energy (Anil Ambani Group) and Afcons Infrastructure. Foreign entities included Maersk of Denmark, VTU Millennium (Singapore), Rosoborone (Russia), Italian-Thai Development Co., Cyan Holdings BV (Netherlands) and Nissin Corporation of Japan.
The government has targeted to begin construction work on the delayed international container terminal project by December 2008. An SPV, Vizhinjam International Seaport Co. Ltd, has been formed to implement the project. This SPV will be transferred to selected private developer who will develop the terminal under a 30-year concession period.
Maritime experts suggest that 50 per cent of the 20,000 ships that pass through the Suez Canal could anchor at Vizhinjam. The transshipment terminal could be in direct competition to international transshipment hubs like Dubai, Singapore and Colombo.

Projects Monitor Dec 31,2007

[Suncity]

Originally Posted by Ajaypp

http://www.hindu.com/2007/12/07/stor...0761550300.htm

About time, things were patched up, else Cochin risks falling by the wayside in the victory march of Indian maritime trade.

With the establishment of the Vizhinjam deep water port in another 3 years, CPT may lose further cargo as the former has greater draught and is much closer to the main international shipping lanes.

The same disruptive trade unions could rule the roost in Vizhinjam. Time for people to realize that many of these trade unions and their elitist leaders (left or right) in Kerala and West Bengal are mostly into disruptive activities and have little concern for the workers (except long speeches and slogans).

[ajay_ijn]

Total & HPCL starts operations of largest LPG import terminal in India
PARIS, Jan 14 (Reuters) - French oil and gas giant Total (TOTF.PA: Quote, Profile, Research) has launched a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) import terminal in south eastern India with a 60,000 tonne storage capacity, the company said on Monday.

The facility is owned and operated by South Asia LPG, a company owned jointly by Total and HPCL (HPCL.BO: Quote, Profile, Research), the second-largest petroleum refining and marketing public business of India, Total said in a press release.

"With a storage capacity of 60,000 metric tonnes, this terminal is the largest LPG import facility of India, able to accommodate the largest LPG vessels available on the market," Total added.

[ajithv]

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Five consortiums are in the fray for the global tender floated on behalf of the State government for the proposed Rs.5,348-crore International Container Transhipment Terminal at Vizhinjam.

They are:
1. DS Constructions Limited, Appolo Enterprises Ltd. and the Dubai-based KGL Ports International;
2. Nagarjuna Construction Company Ltd., Maytas and the Singapore-based OPM;
3. Videocon Industries Ltd., Gammon India, Gammon Infra and Sical Logistics; 4. Lanco Infratech Ltd., Lanco Power and Pembinaan Redzai Sdn Bdh and
5. Zoom Developers and the United Kingdom-based companies Portia Management Service and Peter Fraenkel and Partners.

The deadline for submitting the bids ended at 4.30 p.m. on Thursday. At a press conference at the office of the Vizhinjam International Seaports Ltd., the agency formed by the government to facilitate the project, Minister for Ports M. Vijayakumar said the technical bids would be scrutinised first. Responding to a question, he said the government hoped to award the tender after these procedures within four or five months.

“We have at last reached the beginning of the process for bringing this dream project into fruition,” he said.

This is the second time the government had gone in for a global tender for this mega project, which, according to Mr. Vijayakumar, could change the face of southern Kerala by catalysing trade and industrial development in the region. Only one bidder, a consortium with the participation of two Chinese companies, participated in the previous tender. For national security reasons, the attempt of the previous United Democratic Front (UDF) government to award the tender was stopped by the Union government.

The Left Democratic Front (LDF) government now in office subsequently called a global investors’ meet to woo major Indian and foreign companies. Forty-three companies had participated in the global meet.

Mr. Vijayakumar said the suggestions received at the investors’ meet were incorporated in the tender document while re-tendering the project. Thirty-three companies had purchased the tender documents. Of them, 16 are involved in the five consortiums that have now submitted the bids.

[Suncity]

Port of Singapore picks up 49% in ABG terminal

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/...ow/2760311.cms

Port of Singapore Authority (PSA), one of the world’s largest port operators, has bought 49% in ABG Infralogistics’ subsidiary — ABG Kolkata Container Terminal. The port giant has also subscribed to preference shares in another wholly-owned subsidiary of ABG — ABG Kandla Container Terminal.
ABG Infralogistics, formerly ABG Heavy Industries, on Tuesday informed BSE that its board met on February 5, and has entered into an agreement with PSA India for the two subsidiaries. The funds will be used for ABG’s expansion projects.

It currently operates the Kolkata container terminal under a unique own-operate-maintain (OOM) contract since April 2005, and has handled 1,70,000 containers (20 ft equivalent container units or TEUs) during the last financial year (2006-07). It hopes to handle over 2,00,000 TEUs during the current financial year. It started Kandla operations in April 2007, and hopes to handle around 2,20,000 TEUs in the current fiscal, 25% growth from last financial year, when Kandla Port Trust operated the terminal.

[Suncity]

Firms see big gains in shipbuilding

http://www.telegraphindia.com/108021...ry_8891979.jsp

Indian companies are investing heavily in the shipbuilding business. According to Shipping Corporation of India managing director S. Hajara, “Shipyards all over the world are booked until 2011-2012. More than 45 per cent of the Indian fleet are single-hull.

“These will not be allowed to sail after 2010 under maritime law. Therefore, there is a need to replace the vessels, which gives Indian yards a tremendous opportunity,” he said. JSW Infrastructure and Logistics Ltd is the latest to join the string of firms venturing into the segment.

The company will invest Rs 5,000 crore in its marine infrastructure over the next five years. It plans to build two shipyards, which will also be special economic zones, in Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh.

JSW said the move was primarily to meet its own requirements but it would also look at commercial ventures in the long run.

Shipbuilding is essentially a cyclical business and many European yards have opted out of it. Indian companies, however, are upbeat on the sector.

ABG Shipyard, an established player in the field, has its hands full with an order book of Rs 8,270 crore. Shipping Corporation of India, too, is venturing into shipbuilding in collaboration with a partner.

Larsen & Toubro, which decided to venture into shipbuilding last year, is constructing eight ships at its Hazira yard. The company plans to invest Rs 2,500 crore in a new yard and an SEZ in Tamil Nadu over the next two years.

“In shipbuilding, we find a natural synergy with our capability to absorb technology. This industry needs engineering manpower and the ability to execute, which we’re doing all the time while competing with the Koreans and the Japanese,” said A.M. Naik, managing director and chief executive officer of Larsen & Toubro.

Since Korean and Japanese yards are overbooked, orders are naturally flowing into India, he added.

L&T is betting big on ship repairing and dry docking to garner sustained business in the long run.

Gujarat Adani Ports is also making its foray into shipbuilding. It plans to set up a yard near the Mundra port.

Offshore service provider Dolphin Offshore Ltd is forging alliances with domestic companies for a Rs 400-crore shipyard.

A shipping analyst said on a global scale, over 70 per cent of the anchor handling tug supply vessels and 60 per cent of the platform supply vessels were more than 20 years old and needed to be replaced.

It will lead to a demand for more vessels, which can be met by the low-cost manufacturers in China and India.

“As for Indian yards, they barely meet 30 per cent of the country’s shipbuilding requirements,” the analyst said.

Korea, Japan and China together account for over 80 per cent of the $500-billion global shipbuilding industry, while the combined capacity of all the 28 Indian shipyards is $6 billion, accounting for 1.2 per cent of the global market.

However, market watchers believe that the Indian yards have grown more than 10 times since 2002.

Mumbai-based consultants i-maritime Consultancy Pvt Ltd has predicted that India’s share in global shipbuilding could go up to 15 per cent of the world market by 2020, riding mainly on cost competitiveness and supply of skilled manpower.

An i-maritime consultant said the outlook remained bullish for the next four years and the company did not see a lull immediately, but saturation might happen over time.

Pipavav Shipyard bags $1.06 bn ship building orders

http://www.moneycontrol.com/india/ne...r/18/09/325835

Pipavav Shipyard has bagged orders worth USD 1.06 billion to build 26 Panamax bulk carriers, reports CNBC-TV18. The orders are from Golden Ocean Group, Norway; SETAF, France; and AVGI Maritime, Greece. This is also India's largest shipbuilding order to date.

Nikhil Gandhi, Chairman, Pipavav Shipyard, said the company has one of the largest dry-docks in terms of size in the world. "It is much larger than any of the largest shipbuilding yards in the country."

We would execute this contract in three years beginning March 2009, Gandhi said. "That is when the first ship would be delivered. We would take three years to complete the contract."

L&T bags Rs 1,443-cr Dutch order

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/...ow/2777813.cms

High-Tech specialised cargo vessels with the ‘made-in-India’ tag will soon set sail as L&T will hand over the first of eight high-tech heavy lift vessels. L&T is manufacturing the vessels for a Netherlands-based firm at its Hazira shipbuilding yard in Surat. The order, worth Rs 1,443 crore, placed by the Netherlands-based Rollerdock to the Mumbai-based engineering giant, is one of the biggest in the Indian shipbuilding sector.

“The first of the heavy lift vessels will be delivered to the Netherlands company in April this year. This is a very specialised vessel (RORO) and is of 8,300 tonnage each. It can take extremely heavy cargo by truck or lift,” said a senior official of L&T Shipping. The deal, struck between the two companies in August last year, marks the foray of L&T into the highly technical area of shipbuilding — an area where the Dutch have years of skill and expertise.

“The Rolldock project with L&T involves the expertise of several leading Dutch companies that are leading players in manufacturing ship parts, sales, distribution and repairs,” the Holland Marine Equipment MD Martin Bloem told ET.

L&T in talks for $100 million Dutch shipbuilding contract

http://www.livemint.com/2008/02/1523...-100-mill.html

India’s biggest engineering and construction firm, Larsen and Toubro Ltd, is in talks with a Dutch shipowner for a new building contract valued at more than $100 million (Rs397 crore) said a person familiar with the development. L&T is currently building eight ships valued at about Rs1,150 crore. These comprise six for RollDock and two from BigLift Shipping BV, also of the Netherlands.

L&T launched its shipbuilding venture in May 2006 with an order for building four ships valued at Rs440 crore from the Rotterdam-based shipping firm Zadeko Ship Management CV (now known as RollDock BV). RollDock placed a repeat order in August 2007 with L&T for building two more ships valued at more than $70 million.

Mumbai-based L&T has recently secured clearance from the Tamil Nadu cabinet to set up the country’s biggest shipbuilding facility at Kattupalli in Thiruvallur district near Chennai.
The Rs3,000 crore proposed shipyard-cum-port project will be capable of building 25 ships in a year, including five very large crude carriers, each with a capacity to carry 300,000- 350,000 tonnes of crude oil, and 20 Panamax vessels, which can each carry 120,000-200,000 tonnes of dry bulk commodities and are called thus because they can pass through the Panama Canal carrying cargo. The yard will also be able to repair 50-60 ships a year.
L&T ventured into shipbuilding last year by converting part of its heavy engineering complex at Hazira into a yard that could build three mid-size ships with a cargo carrying capacity of 15,000-20,000 tonnes in a year. Although, the company is now expanding the capacity of the Hazira yard to make six ships a year, it cannot make bigger ships there. The yard opens into a river that has limited draft (depth in shipping terminology). That explains its decision to build a new yard at Kattupalli.

[bobbie501]

Vizag Gonna Rock In Shipping With Two Major Sea Ports On The East Coast.VPT Already Proven No One Can Beat us & Gangavaram Will Be The Most Advance Seaport Of India.

[mhp]

I thot DWT stands for Dead Weight Tonnes. What is "deep water tonnes"?

[Euromast]

MUMBAI: NRI businessman S Sivasankaran, who hit the headlines in 2005 by selling his telecom business Aircel to Maxis of Malaysia for $800 million, has acquired a Norwegian shipping firm, JB Ugland Shipping (JBUS), for Rs 1,200 crore. Mr Sivasankaran, who now heads the diversified Siva Ventures as the group chairman, confirmed the development.

JBUS is a Norway-headquartered shipping company with a fleet of 40 owned and long-time chartered vessels with an aggregate capacity of approximately 2 million deadweight tonnage (DWT). The company’s fleet consists of a mix of tankers and chemical and bulk carriers. The fleet has an average life of approximately four years. It is also acquiring new vessels which will be delivered in phases over the next three years. The company’s main operations are centered in Oslo, Norway and Singapore.

Source

[SarafIndian]

http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/..._10019922.html

West Bengal to start bidding process for deep-sea port

Kolkata, Feb 21 (IANS) The West Bengal government is all set to prepare a document for the interested developers to directly bid for its upcoming deep-sea port project. “At a meeting with Prime Minister’s Principal Secretary T.K. Nair, we have decided that the state government can now do the bidding process directly involving the developers in the deep-sea port project,” West Bengal Commerce and Industry Secretary Sabyasachi Sen told reporters here Thursday.

He said in the process the state would gain at least 2-3 years in getting the deep-sea port ready.

“We are interested in getting this deep-sea port in our state as early as possible. The procedure of appointing a consultancy firm by the central government has already been delayed and if we still wait for the same it will be too late for us,” he said.

Sen said that companies like Sajjan Jindal’s JSW Steel and V.G. Dhoot’s Videocon have already shown interest in the project.

“We are in hurry because the proposed chemical hub - Prafulla Chandra Roy Chemical Complex (PCRCC) - at the Nayachar islands in the state is on the cards. The port would facilitate the chemical hub immensely,” Sen said.

Earlier, the state government had approached the committee formed by the central government for the deep-sea port to skip the process of appointing consultants for the project and allow the state to directly invite bids from investors and developers.

A tender was also floated for consultants but no one responded to that. Though many consultancy firms picked up papers for expression of interest (EoI), final bids were not submitted, as the companies were not satisfied with the terms of reference.

The West Bengal government then approached the committee to entrust the state with the entire process of inviting bids and selection of developers.

Sen and West Bengal Chief Secretary Amit Kiran Deb attended the meeting with Nair in Delhi Wednesday.

Sen said Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Delhi Feb 6 and discussed the project.

“While preparing the bidding document, we would consider all aspects ranging from the minimum number of terminals to be constructed to the total capacity for carrying bulk cargos from the port,” Sen said.

[Cov Boy]

About time a Marina for Yachts/Motor Boats/Sailing Boats was made around India esp. Mumbai, Goa, etc. as India has some stunning beaches and coastal areas.

http://www.mumbaiboatshow.com/

[dreadathecontrols]

great pics sun

[ajithv]

The foundation stone for the country's first full-fledged marina to house around 50 yachts will be laid at Bolgatty Island in Kochi on March 1 by Kerala Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan. It will also be the world's only marina with a golf course, and is coming up on five-acre land.
The marina, when complete, will give a huge boost to tourism in the state because it will be a stopover for all yachts that sail from the Middle East to the Far East and vice versa. The eco-friendly marina, between Kochi Marine Drive and Bolgatty Island, will accommodate close to 50 luxury yachts, and provide docking, storage, maintenance and other facilities for boats.
The prospects for the project are bright: several luxury yachts travel from the Gulf region with the Far East as destination passing through Kochi. At present, there is no intermediate berthing place for them once they leave Dubai. The marina will exploit this opportunity.
Although the project was announced last May, it could not take off due to technical hassles. Now that all the technical hitches have been resolved, Kerala Tou-rism Development Corporation has appointed Kerala Industrial & Technical Consultancy Organisation as consultant. KTDC will build and operate the marina.
They plan to develop it in two stages with the first phase to be completed in less than 18 months at a cost Rs 8 crore. Out of this, the Central government has given Rs 4 crore.
The complete pontoon (small boats) jetty will be made in marine quality glue laminated yellow agathis for docking cross-ties, rotational moulded polyethelyne pontoons filled with expanded polysterene, dock cleats, etc. The marina will have a wet dock and machines for carrying out repairing works, two luxury cruisers and five jet skis.
A marina house will be built in traditional Kerala architectural style with nearly 24 rooms and recreation facilities.
"There won't be any new concrete structures that will destroy the greenery and heritage architecture of the surrounding buildings, since it is coming up on a heritage precinct, near the Bolgatty Palace. The marina house is designed to complement the existing Dutch style palace," said Cyriac Davies, Joint GM, Kitco. He added that a major part of the project would be complete within six months and launched in later this year.

[Cov Boy]

Hey that is great!

Been waiting a long time to hear this.

Hope to see some renderings or some pics.

Any more details?

[Euromast]

Port of Rotterdam plans joint venture to manage ports in India

The Port of Rotterdam Authority, which manages Europe’s biggest port, plans to set up a company in partnership with a local private firm to manage ports in India, a top official said.
“Our expertise and strength lie in managing ports. We are not into development of ports or handling cargo,” said Pieter Struijs, senior executive vice-president and chief operating officer, Port of Rotterdam, during a trip to India last week.
“This does not require any major investments,” he added but declined to give further details. Port of Rotterdam has advised the Indian government in preparing a business development plan for the 12 major ports it (the Union government) owns.
The proposed port management company will look at opportunities in managing greenfield and private ports, Struijs said. The 12 Union government-owned ports are managed by a board of trustees, based on the service port model where operational activities such as tugs, pilotage, linesmen, stevedoring and warehousing are the responsibility of the port trusts.
The trusts also own the land and water front on behalf of the government, limiting the opportunity for privateplayers.
India’s new generation ports, owned by state governments in Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra and being developed by private firms could provide the ideal setting for the Port of Rotterdam Authority to launch its port management business in India.

[robin_a_p]

The Kerala government has proposed Poovar in Thiruvananthapuram district as a viable spot for setting up a world-class shipyard.

The proposal was submitted to the Union Ministry of Shipping after the Ministry asked the State government to do so, Minister for Ports M. Vijayakumar told The Hindu on Thursday. He said the Union government had plans for setting up two world-class shipyards — one on the West coast and the other on the East coast.

The Union Ministry had asked the State to identify a suitable area that would provide a waterfront 2.5 km in length and with a sufficient depth. Mr. Vijayakumar said that in the Vizhinjam-Poovar area, the desired depth could be found, and that the waters varied from 12 metres to 22 metres in some places along this stretch.

Source - The Hindu

The proposed location is 20 Kms from Trivandrum city and 10 kms from upcoming Vizhinjam Transshipment Terminal

[ajithv]

Netherlands, one of the surging economies, is known for its efficient ports and world-class technologies in the shipping sector. The Port of Rotterdam handles around 407 million tonnes of cargo.
Port of Amsterdam handles around 64 million tonnes of cargo. Indian ports transport about 95 per cent by volume and 70 per cent by value of India international trade. To cope with the impressive surge in cargo traffic, which has grown at a rate of more than 10 per cent during the last few years, Indian ports are continuously upgrading themselves and expanding their cargo handling capacities.
At the same time India has to build up the ship building and ship breaking capacities, besides the present developments.
A maritime seminar presenting the latest technologies and experiences in the fields of port development, hinterland logistics and shipbuilding technology and to identify business opportunities for Indian and Dutch companies took place in Mumbai on February 13. The seminar revealed that the cross-country cooperation between the two countries is imperative.
One of the attractive features of the seminar was that that the event provided individual match-making facility wherein businessmen from India and Dutch interacted together and explored business opportunities and areas of cooperation.
In this event a number of smaller and highly specialised companies also participated.
The seminar also highlighted softer issues associated with the shipping industry. Along with security of the goods, it was highlighted in the seminar that safety and security of people working on ships and at ports is equally important. The Indian shipping ministry has come up with various policies and also accepted to a certain extent the changes in multimodal transportation of Goods Act, 1993 to boast the trade and overall betterment of the shipping and logistics industry.
The event was organised by the ministry of transport, public works and water management of the Netherlands & the Royal Netherlands Embassy, India and the ministry of economic affairs of Holland and Holland Marine Equipment. The event was supported by the ministry of shipping, road transport and highways.

[madurai veeran]

Tuticorin Port cargo handling crossed 20 million mark

Exim News Service reported that Tuticorin Port has reached another milestone when it crossed the 20 million tonne mark on March 10th 2008.

Tuticorin Port has handled 20.07 million tonnes till March 10th 2008 up by 20.03% YoY as against 16.72 million tonnes handled till March 10th 2007. This record cargo traffic was possible due to the increased handling of fertilizers nominated by the government, containerized cargo and industrial coal through anchorage operations and thermal coal handled by the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board.

If this trend continues, Tuticorin Port will easily cross union shipping ministry’s target of 20.385 million tonnes fixed for 2008-09 by the middle of March 2008 and may even cross 21 million tonnes by March 2008 end.

Mr K Suresh chairman in charge as well as Mr A Subbiah deputy chairman of Tuticorin Port Trust have congratulated the workers and officers of the Port and all other stakeholders responsible for the remarkable performance.

http://steelguru.com/news/index/2008...lion_mark.html