According to officials, 6 ships left the port on Sunday and 11 more ships will depart tomorrow. Port officials and ship owners have been asked to remain alert. Those staying in low-lying areas of Kandla are being moved to temporary shelters in Gandhidham.
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], May 11 (ANI/GPRC): Adding yet another feather to its cap of pride and performance, Orissa Stevedores Limited (OSL) has recently been adorned with the prestigious "Best Stevedores for the Year 2022-23" award by the Paradip Port Authority (PPA) for handling highes
Ahead of Union Home Minister Amit Shah's visit, Border Security Force (BSF) Director General SL Thaosen on Monday visited the South Bengal frontier and reviewed the security arrangements at Integrated-Check Post (ICP) Petrapole.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah will lay the foundation stone and inaugurate various development projects of the Land Port Authority of India and Border Security Force (BSF) in his day-long visit to West Bengal on Tuesday.
Indian ports have become one of the most competent systems in the entire globe, said Sarbananda Sonowal, Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways while speaking at the second edition of FICCI's Port Infrastructure Conclave.
"While the cargo was first brought through barges from the leading fertilizer firm IFFCO's riverine jetty (which has been developed by OSL) in Paradip, it was unloaded from the barges and shifted to the main berth of the Paradip Port Authority (PPA) and loaded into the bigger vessel named MV
JNPA in a statement said the port had crossed 6 MTEUs on March 30, 2023. During the corresponding period last year, the port handled 5.68 MTEUs, which was also a record then. It accounts for an increase of 6.4 per cent in the total throughput.
The growth in cargo handling achieved by Paradip Port is the highest among all Ports, both major and non-major ports of the country, the Chairman said.
Paradip port is emerging as a coastal shipping hub of the country and has plans even to ship thermal coal to powerhouses, located in Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, and Haryana.
Jawaharlal Nehru Port Authority (JNPA) on Monday, in association with the Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Madras, developed a Continuous Marine Water Quality Monitoring Station (CMWQMS) and launched an Electric Environmental Monitoring Vehicle (EV) on November 21, 2022, at the Port, the