Cochin Port, Shipyard & Vallarpadam ICTT

[Malayaali]

VICTT will be the best Terminal in South India

DP World chairman told, VICTT will be made the best terminal in terms of Technology & Efficiency in South India. When the dredging is completed in march, huge vessels carrying 10,000 containers can be berthed.

Vallarpadam will provide international standards and the Turn Around Time for vessels shall be among the least. Vallarpadam could be made the best terminal in the world, said DP World CEO, Muhammad Sharaf

വല്ലാര്പാടത്തെ ദക്ഷിണേന്ത്യയിലെ മികച്ച തുറമുഖമാക്കും -സുല്ത്താന് സുലായെം

കൊച്ചി: വെള്ളിയാഴ്ച പ്രധാനമന്ത്രി മന്മോഹന് സിങ് രാഷ്ട്രത്തിനു സമര്പ്പിച്ച വല്ലാര്പാടം കണ്ടെയ്നര് ടെര്മിനലിനെ സാങ്കേതിക വിദ്യയിലും സേവനത്തിന്റെ കാര്യത്തിലും കാര്യക്ഷമതയിലും ദക്ഷിണേന്ത്യയിലെ ഏറ്റവും മികച്ച തുറമുഖമാക്കി മാറ്റുമെന്ന് ഡിപി വേള്ഡ് ചെയര്മാന് സുല്ത്താന് അഹമ്മദ് ബിന് സുലായെം പത്രസമ്മേളനത്തില് പറഞ്ഞു. മാര്ച്ചില് മണ്ണുമാന്തല് പൂര്ത്തിയാവുന്നതോടെ 10,000 കണ്ടെയ്നറുകള് വഹിക്കുന്ന ഭീമന് കപ്പലുകള്ക്ക് തുറമുഖത്തേക്ക് കടന്നുവരാനാവുമെന്ന് അദ്ദേഹം ആത്മവിശ്വാസം പ്രകടിപ്പിച്ചു.

വല്ലാര്പാടം അന്താരാഷ്ട്ര നിലവാരമുള്ള തുറമുഖമായിരിക്കുമെന്ന് ഡിപി വേള്ഡിന്റെ ഇന്ത്യ ഉപഭൂഖണ്ഡ സീനിയര് വൈസ് പ്രസിഡന്റും മാനേജിങ് ഡയറക്ടറുമായ അനില് സിങ് വ്യക്തമാക്കി. കപ്പലുകള് കണ്ടെയ്നര് ഇറക്കി തിരിച്ചുപോകാനെടുക്കുന്ന ടേണ് എറൗണ്ട് ടൈം ഈ മേഖലയിലെ ഏറ്റവും കുറഞ്ഞതായിരിക്കും.

അഞ്ചുവര്ഷമായി രാജീവ് ഗാന്ധി കണ്ടെയ്നര് ടെര്മിനലിന്റെ പ്രവര്ത്തനം ഏറ്റെടുത്ത ഡിപി വേള്ഡ് വല്ലാര്പാടത്തെ ആധുനിക ടെര്മിനലിലേക്ക് മാറുകയാണ്. പഴയ ടെര്മിനലില് നിന്ന് വല്ലാര്പാടത്തേക്ക് പൂര്ണമായി മാറാന് അല്പസമയം വേണ്ടിവരുമെന്ന് അദ്ദേഹം കൂട്ടിച്ചേര്ത്തു.350 മീറ്റര് ബെര്ത്ത് സജ്ജമായതായും ബാക്കി രണ്ട്-രണ്ടര മാസത്തിനകം 14.5 മീറ്റര് ആഴം കൈവരിക്കാനാകുമെന്നും പോര്ട്ട് ട്രസ്റ്റ് ചെയര്മാന് എന്. രാമചന്ദ്രന് പറഞ്ഞു. 2.6 കോടി ക്യുബിക് മീറ്റര് മണ്ണും ചെളിയുമാണ് ബേസിനില് നിന്നു മാറ്റേണ്ടിയിരുന്നത്. ഇതില് 2.48 കോടി ക്യുബിക് മീറ്റര് ഇതിനകം നീക്കിയിട്ടുണ്ട്.

ലോകത്തിലെ ഏറ്റവും മികച്ച തുറമുഖമാകാന് എല്ലാ സാധ്യതയുമുള്ളതാണ് വല്ലാര്പാടമെന്ന് ഡിപി വേള്ഡ് ചീഫ് എക്സിക്യൂട്ടീവ് ഓഫീസര് മൊഹമ്മദ് ഷറഫ് പറഞ്ഞു.

Mathrubhumi

[Malayaali]

4 lane road connectivity to VICTT U/C

Source: kochigallan

[KMC]

Originally Posted by Malayaali

4 lane road connectivity to VICTT U/C
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Source: kochigallan

Historic develepment vallarpadom
This bypass will surely overtake aroor - edapally , lots of development will come along this stretch with medcity coming in .... what a view

[Malayaali]

i would say this stretch would go a long way, even taking on the Marine drive

[zuperman]

From the pic. it seems the road cuts across the backwaters.almost dividing it into two.wernt there any enviormnetlists who raised their voice againt this?

[Malayaali]

Originally Posted by zuperman

From the pic. it seems the road cuts across the backwaters.almost dividing it into two.wernt there any enviormnetlists who raised their voice againt this?

Some part of the highway was obtained by reclaiming from the backwaters, but there isn't any divide or flow restriction as 12 bridges are being constructed in the stretch.

[induzcreed]

Originally Posted by Malayaali

Some part of the highway was obtained by reclaiming from the backwaters, but there isn't any divide or flow restriction as 12 bridges are being constructed in the stretch.

You are right. More over the technical designs also incorporates environmental engineering before the final drawing takes shape. It is very crucial and have its own impacts in a transport-transit system.

Environmentalists are more interested in projects launched with considerable fanfare and media coverage.

[vu3nnn]

The new highway cuts down the travel time from Kalamassery to Marine Drive to a mere ten minutes from the usual 45 minutes. Only thing missing is a flyover where this road cuts the NH 17 (new NH 85) at Cheranallur.

[Malayaali]

image hosted on flickr

Courtesy: Cochinsquare

[Malayaali]

Animation video of VICTT rail connectivity

[Malayaali]

[Malayaali]

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KOCHI: Exactly a week after the inauguration of the terminal, cargo from the first container vessel was handled at the International Container Transshipment Terminal (ICTT), Vallarpadam.


Though the container vessel OEL Dubai had reached Kochi the day before the commissioning of the ICTT, it had to wait at the Rajiv Gandhi Container Terminal since the workers were on strike. The vessel, has been conducting feeder service between Kochi and Colombo. Over 500 containers were unloaded while 250 were loaded. Though the vessel berthed at Vallarpadam on Thursday night, unloading work began after 12 midnight .

As the workers of the United Steamer Agents Pool were on strike, the handling work was carried out by the labourers deployed by the agencies which have been awarded the work on contract-basis, K K Krishnadas, CEO, DPWorld Cochin, said.

Now that the Division Bench of the High Court has stayed a Single Judge’s order that the RGCT should be operated for the next three months, the vessels which were waiting in the outer channel can move to the ICTT. The vessels, carrying both coastal and export cargo were waiting in the outer channel due to the uncertainty regarding where they were to be berthed. The inordinate delay in solving the issue had created serious concern among the business community also.

Meanwhile, the Trade Union Coordination Committee which launched the strike demanding retention of the operation of the RGCT, said it would go on with the agitation. “The stay order on the Single Judge’s order is unfortunate,” Charles George, convener of the coordination committee, said.

Source: http://expressbuzz.com/cities/kochi/...tt/249447.html

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Operations at ICTT returning to normality

Staff Reporter
Backlog at Rajiv Gandhi terminal also being cleared
Photo: Special Arrangement

IN FULL SWING:Containers being unloaded from OEL Trust and Ronneby, the second and third vessels to call at the International Container Transshipment Terminal. —
KOCHI: Operations at the newly-opened International Container Transshipment Terminal on Vallarpadam Island is expected to achieve normality by Sunday, when two more vessels with nearly a 1,000 containers anchor at the terminal .

Backlog at the Rajiv Gandhi Container Terminal (RGCT) on Willingdon Island caused by a week-long strike by private sector workers under Trade Union Coordination Committee is also being cleared, sources said here on Saturday.

A total of 150 containers, which remained at the RGCT at the end of the strike, were being cleared on Saturday, they added.

These containers were being picked up by OEL Dubai, the first container ship that called at the ICTT and which had a load of 563 containers. The second and third vessels to call at the ICTT —OEL Trust and Ronneby of Maersk, were now being serviced at the ICTT. These vessels had 563 and 311 containers respectively.

Caraval Pride and Seaways Venture with 574 and 400 containers respectively are expected to anchor on Sunday.

Operations at the Terminal, opened by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on February 11, had come under some cloud following a strike by private sector workers, who had disputed the shifting of bulk operations to the new terminal and also raised the issue of lower wages at the new site and potential job losses.

However, a stay on an order to maintain the operations of the Rajiv Gandhi Container Terminal for three more months by the High Court of Kerala has eased the situation and removed a lot of confusion. Services at the terminal were affected because there was some confusion of servicing of vessels that arrived with both coastal and transshipment cargo.

The situation has also eased out with the workers, who were protesting against the new working conditions, being offered a new settlement and an assurance that they would be sufficiently compensated, sources here said.
The Hindu

[Malayaali]

ICTT operation in full swing

Following the court directive that two ports - the Rajiv Gandhi Container Terminal and the International Container Transshipment Terminal (ICTT) at Vallarpadam - cannot function simultaneously, the first transshipment terminal in the country started operation in full swing on Saturday.
For the first time, all the four cranes of the ICTT were used for loading and unloading containers from two vessels.
The two vessels, OEL Trust and OEL Maersk Ronneby, which were waiting off Kochi for the last several days owing to the port strike, berthed at the ICTT on Saturday.
DP World CEO Krishnadas told Express that the two vessels had been berthed at the port. “Four cranes were used for loading and unloading. It is expected that both the vessels can leave the port on Sunday morning,” he said.
It is pointed out that one crane can make 32 movements in an hour and the four cranes when operated simultaneously were able to shift around 120 containers in an hour.
Both the vessels have around 1,500 containers and operations are going on to unload them at the ICTT. At the same time, the containers which are waiting here are also being loaded, he said.
Cochin Steamer Agents Association president Santhosh Kumar said that around 2,000 containers would be unloaded from the three vessels in two days. The containers which are to be shipped from the Cochin Port will be cleared before Monday.OEL Dubai, the vessel berthed at the ICTT, is loading containers from the Rajiv Gandhi Terminal and it is also expected to leave the port on Sunday morning.
Two other vessels, Caravel Pride and Sea Ways Venture, will reach the port on Sunday with 574 and 400 containers respectively.
Indian Express

[DileepKS]

Get, set, RO-RO

KOCHI: The trial run of the Roll-on Roll-off (RO-RO) was done from the old boat jetty on Willingdon Island and Bolghatty Island on Wednesday with the double-ended ferry of the LOTS Shipping Company covering the distance in about 20 minutes.

Cochin Port Trust chairman Paul Antony, Customs Commissioner Rema Mathew, Kerala Shipping Inland Navigational Company chairman Rear Admiral B R C Menon, CISF Chief Commandant S N Singh, LOTS director and former Goa Shipping Chairman Jose Paul were present on the ferry from Willingdon Island to Bolghatty jetty.

“The seven-year-old vessel, Sakra Transporter from Singapore, has an advantage of having double-ends and doesn’t need to turn at the jetty. You can drive in from one end and get off at the other end. The driver has to just turn to the other side and drive out,” said chief executive Renjith.

RO-RO ships are ferries designed to carry wheeled cargo such as automobiles, trucks, semi-trailer trucks and trailers.

The vessel can carry 11 trailers with containers of 40 feet at a time or 22 vehicles with containers of 20 feet. “We are waiting for the Port strike to end so that we can start the services,” said K P Joseph, general manager, LOTS Shipping Ltd.

The advantage of a RO-RO service is that the consignment which would need to cover 38 km on the road needs to travel only 3.7 km on water by RO-RO taking the huge cargo to ICTT at Vallarpadam.

The RO-RO service between Willingdon Island and Vallarpadam International Container Transshipment Terminal will facilitate the transportation of the containers on barges.

Now vehicles coming to the Cochin Port with containers through the existing roads to the port will be transported to the Vallarpadam Terminal on barges. According to Port officials, this facility will reduce the transportation cost and time. It is expected that 10 percent of the movement of containers will be exclusively to and from South Kerala. This service will reduce traffic congestion and delay in the clearance of containers.

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