Jawaharlal Nehru Port has crossed
one million TEU mark on February 9, 2001 and became the first
Indian port to cross the mark. In the previous year JNPT
container terminal handled about 0.9 million TEUs.
Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA)
has approved revised cost estimates for the construction of
a new port at Ennore at an estimated cost of Rs. 10.59 billion.
The project was earlier approved by the CCEA in 1993 at a cost
of Rs. 5.94 billion. The increase in cost has taken place due
to expansion of work, foreign exchange variation and escalation
in prices of labour and material. The project includes creating
two coal berths with a handling capacity of 16 million tonnes
and conversion of the 197 km Cuddalore - Vridachalam - Salem line.
The contract for operation and maintenance
of the general cargo terminal at Indira Dock in Mumbai port
on a Build, Operate and Transfer (BOT) basis has been bagged by
the consortium United Liner Agencies -Shipping Corporation of
India-Novolog Inc., Odessa. The consortium has guaranteed an annual
throughput of 7.5 lakh tonnes in the first two years , eight lakh
tonnes in the next two years , nine lakh tonnes in the next six
years and 10 lakh tonnes from the 11th year onwards.
Kandla port, which was severely damaged by
the earthquake, is functioning partially. The port is planning
to receive more vessels as soon as the condition at port gets
normal. At present, due to shortage of labour and equipment, the
load rate has reduced to 2,000 tonnes from around 5,000 tonnes
a day before the earthquake.
Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (TNEB) has appointed KCT
as the handling agent for the loading of thermal coal at Paradip
port. KCT has been appointed for the five months from February,
2001 in place of SICAL, a part of A. C. Muthiah group.
Economic Advisory Council (EAC) to Prime Minister has
recommended that the tariff policy for ports should be used as
an instrument of rationing port capacity and all cross subsidations
should be phased out from the pricing aspects. Further, EAC suggested
that higher tariffs for the most congested facilities or during
peak periods and differential pricing policy for discouraging
old vessels can be used for the optimum utilisation of port capacity.
Petronet
LNG Limited (PLL) will set up an onshore trust account from
which gas suppliers, shipowners and lenders will be paid their
respective charges for the 7.5 million tonnes per annum of LNG
purchased from Qatar's Ras Gas on free-on-board basis. The proposed
account will have two subheads retating to fuel charges (variable
costs) and fixed charges (capital costs). The money accruing from
the sale of gas will be deposited by PLL's marketing agents (IOC,
BPCL and GAIL) into the onshore trust trust account for discharging
the payments to various links in the LNG chain.
Calcutta Port Trust has invited offers for
Tender for:
Capital dredging & shore disposal at Jiggerkhali Flat in the
Batari region including construction of Dykes & trimming of
Western face of Nayachara Islands along navigational channel opposite
Haldia Dock Complex & disposal of dredged spoils under River
Regulatory Measures in Hooghly estuary of Calcutta Port, in two
cover system i:e, Cover I commercial and technical bid, and Cover
II price bid.
Pre-qualification criteria: (1) Experience of carrying out
similar work like construction of Dykes/Groynes using Geotubes
and Geotextiles under tidal conditions of Rs. 10 crore or equivalent
during last five years under single contract. (2) Experience of
carrying out single capital dredging work, including shore disposal
of Rs. 100 crore or equivalent in any year during last five years.
(3) Owning of at least one cutter suction dredger capable of dredging
2,500 cu meters of solid per hour for discharging at a distance
of at least three km through floating and shore pipelines (4)
Company must have yearly turnover of Rs. 500 crore or equivalent.
Address for communication: The Director, Marine Department,
Calcutta Port Trust, 15, Strand Road, Calcutta 700001.
Last date for submission: March 16, 2001, 15.00 hours
Dredging Corporation of
India Limited has invited offers for
Tender for:
Construction of steel pile trestle for support of shore disposal
dredge pipe and installation of dredge pipe on the trestle, proposed
to be undertaken during March/April, 2001 and to be completed
in a period of six months.
Pre-qualification criteria: Tenderers who possess experience
in construction of trestles, jetties etc., in marine environment
either with steel or concrete piles and (a) should have
executed successfully at least a single work of this type of value
more than Rs. 3 crores during the past 2 years. (b) Should have
a turnover of more than Rs. 3 crores in each financial year during
the past five years. The application for the prequalification
should provide following information along with the supporting
documents: (1) Profile of company- constitution of company, nature
of works being undertaken, registration with Government/Public
Sector Undertaking (2) List of works completed of value more than
Rs. 3 crores during the past five years (3) List of works on hand
of value more than Rs. 3 crores (4) List of equipment owned by
the company (5) Details of the personnel with the company (6)
Audited Balance Sheets of the Company during past five financial
years (7) Latest Income Tax Clearance Certificate (8) Sales Tax
Registration (9) Registration of the Company with Provident Fund
Authorities (10) Bankers Certificate regarding creditworthiness
of the company from a Nationalised Bank.
Address for communication: Dy. General Manager (Proj), Dredging
Corporation of India Limited, Dredge House, Port Area, Visakhapatnam
- 530035 on or before 23.02.200. The application should be accompanied
with a demand draft of Rs. 5000 drawn in favour of "Dredging
Corporation of India Limited, Visakhapatnam" .
Last date for submission: 23.02.2001
Gujarat Alumina & Bauxite Limited has invited offers for
Tender for:
Oceanography survey, soil investigations, tidal zone ground survey
( over approx area of 2km x 1 km) for setting setting up all weather
jetty and other marine facilities in coastal area of Gulf of Kutch,
25 km east of Mandvi Town.
Period of contract: Three months
Address for communication: The Chairman-cum-Managing Director,
Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation Limited, 'Khanij Bhavan',
Opposite Nehru Bridge, Ashram Road, Ahmedabad - 380009
Plant location: Villages Gundiali & Tragdi, Taluka
Mandvi, Dt. Kutch
Last date for submission: February 20, 2001, 15.00
hours
Inland Waterways Authority of India has invited offers for
Global Tender
for: supply and delivery of (a) GRP Buoys 544 nos. and steel
structure 30 nos. for lighted beacons (b) light system 574
nos. for installations on buoys to be used for channels marking
for night navigation in Ganga (National Waterway No. 1) and the
West Coast Canal (National Waterway No. 3) are invited in two
cover system i:e cover-I : commercial and technical bid, cover-II
: Price bid.
EMD: Rs.1 lakh or US$2320 each for (a) and (b).
Tender No. IWAI/HY.WING/2000-01/5
Correspondence address: Inland Waterways Authority
of India (M/o. Surface Transport, Govt. of India), A-13, Sector-1,
Noida (U.P.) Pin code -201301
Non transferable tender document may
be obtained: by submitting non-refundable demand draft for
US$170 (in case of foreign bidders) or Rs.7000 (in case of Indian
bidder) in favour of IWAI FUND payable at New Delhi/ Noida from
January 30, 2001 to February 23, 2001 on any working day
from Monday to Friday the office of Hydrographic Chief in the
above address.
Last date for submission: February 27, 2001, 1500 hours.
National Highways Authority of India has invited offers for
Global tender
for (Addendum): 4-Laning of National Highway Project(s) on
BOT (Annuity) basis for (1) Rajahmundry (km 200) to Dharmavaram
(km 254), NH No. 5, Length: 54 km, State: Andhra Pradesh (2) Dharmavaram
(km 254) to Tuni (km 300) NH No. 5, Length: 46 km, State: Andhra
Pradesh (3) Tuni (km 300) to Anakapalli (km 358.947), NH No. 5,
Length: 58.9, State: Andhra Pradesh (4) Dharwad (km 433) to Belgaum
(km 495), NH No. 4, Length: 62 km, State: Karnataka (5) Belgaum
(km 515) to Maharashtra Border (km 592) NH No. 4, Length: 77 km,
State: Karnataka (6) Chennai (Tambaram)-Tindivanam, NH No. 45,
Length: 93 km, State: Tamil Nadu.
Address for communication: Chief General Manager (Private
Investment), National Highways Authority of India, 1, Eastern
Avenue, Maharani Bagh, New Delhi-110065 Phone:91-116841290,
Fax: 91-11-6924383, email: ramshanker@nhai.org
Last date for submission: February 23, 2001, 1700 hours
IST.
Central Warehousing Corporation has invited offers for
Tender for :
Supply of equipments for handling of containers and cargo as well
as transportation of loaded /empty ISO containers from (1) ICD-Singanallur,
Coimbatore: For transportationof loaded /empty ISO containers
to Chennai, Kochi, Tuticorin, Mumbai ports and vice versa for
destuffing/stuffing/carting/delivery operation within the inland
clearance depot complex and all other allied services. Number
of TEUs likely to be handled annually: 8000 TEUs (2) CFS-Virugambakkam,
Chennai: For carrying out destuffing/stuffing/carting/delivery
operation with in CFS complex and all other allied services.Number
of TEUs likely to be handled annually: 12000 TEUs
Pre-qualification criteria: Parties with minimum annual gross
turnover of Rs. 40 lakh or more for the last three years and having
proven experience of serving container trade are eligible to tender.
Period of contract: Two years and may be extendable
up to one year on mutually agreed terms.
Address for communication: The Regional Manager, Central Warehousing
Corporation, 4 North Avenue, Srinagar Colony, Saidapet, Chennai
600015
Last date for submission: February 24, 2001, 1500 hours.