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Transport Update
Airports
AAI gets double bonanza in Tamil Nadu
Airports Authority of India has been entrusted the work of
expansion of the existing Chennai airport, as also the second
greenfield airport. The Tamil Nadu government has identified
1,070 acre for the airport expansion. While land acquisition
will cost Rs 1,000 crore, AAI will pump in Rs 1,000 crore
for construction. Simultaneously, Tamil Nadu will begin groundwork
for a greenfield airport. The new airport will come up on
4800 acre to be acquired in the Sriperumbudur-Tiruvallur taluks.
Contact: The Tamil Nadu government.
Tel: 011-2463 2950. Website: www.aai.aero
UB's Nerul brewery to make way for aviation varsity
UB Group, which runs Kingfisher Airlines, has plans to invest
Rs 200 crore in an aviation university in Navi Mumbai. The
university will have a pilot training centre, equipped with
a variety of simulators and will extend comprehensive training
to aspiring pilots. Kingfisher Training Academy has already
been launched by the Group to offer courses in retail, hospitality,
aviation and customer services management. UB's varsity aims
to do better than the Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Uran Akademi
flying school in Rai Bareli and other institutes in Baramati
and Gondia, which are found inadequate to meet industry demands.
UB varsity will not have to scout around for space. With the
Group relocating its brewery at Nerul to Taloja near Mumbai
it will have readymade developed land to start off right away.
Contact: SR Gupte, Executive VP, UB Group.
E-mail: srg@ubmail.com
Website: www.theubgroup.com
GMR woos London investors to develop space around Delhi airport
Roadshows are being organised in London to attract venture
capital funds and other investors to take part in commercial
property development around the upcoming Delhi International
Airport. Around 250 acre has been earmarked for commercial
activity by GMR-led DIAL, the consortium implementing the
project. Delhi Aerotropolis, DIAL's property arm, intends
to dispose off a majority of its interest in the property.
It will however retain a stake in the project by granting
rights to the land and by entering into property development
agreements with the selected partners.
Contact: GMR Group. Tel: 080-2207 0100.
Fax: 080-2221 3091. E-mail: info@gmrgroup.co.in
Website: www.gmrgroup.co.in
Railways
Facelift for three Bihar railway stations
The Indian Railways is proceeding with plans to develop three
stations in Bihar as model stations. Bhagalpur, Sultanganj
and Jamalpur stations will have vastly improved passenger
amenities. They will have multiple ATMs and modern food plazas.
Contact: The Indian Railway.
Website: www.indianrail.gov.in
Ahmedabad in Hind Rail's freight train hub
India's fourth privately owned freight train has been flagged
off by Hind Rail from the inland container depot at Sabarmati,
Ahmedabad to CWC Logistic Park at Dronagiri Node in Navi Mumbai
to access Jawaharlal Nehru Port Terminal. Hind Rail is run
by the Sharaf Group-owned Hind Terminals Pvt Ltd, which operates
four rakes across India and plans to press 10 more rakes of
45 wagons, carrying 90 containers, into service in 2007. The
company has paid Rs 50 crore as licence fee to the Railways
and is running freight trains from Ludhiana, Kota and Dadri
to JNPT currently. The JNPT logistic park is managed by HTPL
and can handle 10,000 - 12,000 containers per month. The facility
has latest Kalmar machines along with a large fleet of forklifts.
HTPL has invested Rs 600 crore so far and will be investing
another Rs 540 crore over the next two years to create infrastructure
around 30 port locations and ICDs.
Contact: Hind Terminals Pvt Ltd.
Tel: 022-6771 7777. Website: www.hindterminals.com
Delhi Metro order worth Rs 289 crore for ABB
ABB Ltd will supply the turnkey electrification package for
Phase II of the Delhi Metro, spanning 10 corridors. Its scope
includes electrification of overhead lines, provision of auxiliary
substations and a hi-tech supervisory control and data acquisition
solution interconnecting all the stations en-route, linking
the main receiving and traction substations to a central control
centre and a back-up control centre. Delhi Metro Rail Corporation
Ltd has placed Rs 289 crore order with the multinational,
which is a global leader in heavy electricals.
Contact: ABB Ltd. Tel: 080-2294 9150 to 54.
Fax: 080-2294 9148. Website: www.abb.co.in
IR's Goldenrock facility in for Rs 95 crore ramp up
An engine block reclamation centre is coming up at the Railway
workshop at Goldenrock near Trichy for life extension of heavy
duty diesel engines used for traction. While this will involve
an investment of Rs 30 crore, the establishment of a training
centre and a design and development centre for processor activities
will cost Rs 2 crore. The Rs 95 crore revamp of the 78-year-old
GOC includes hiking capacity for overhauling by 40 locomotives
a year from 120 now. Wagon production capacity is being increased
to 1,000 units a year from the present 600. Similarly, the
overhauling and maintenance capacity of air-conditioned passenger
coaches would be enhanced to 160 coaches from the present
120.
Contact: Chief Administrative Officer (Construction) .
E-mail: caoc@cr.railnet.gov.in
Roads
Rs 20,000 crore for Phase-V of NHDP
The Central Government is in a hurry to complete 50 per cent
of Phase V of the National Highway Development Programme in
2007-08. This involves converting 6,500 km of 4-lane highways
into six-lanes. The government plans six-laning of 3,000 km
in one year, spending a whopping Rs 20,000 crore. But Phase
IV - two-laning of 20,000 km roads in far-flung areas is still
on paper. Phase II of the NHDP, which envisages upgrading
national highways connecting North-South and East-West, is
only 11 per cent complete. Under the ongoing phase III-A,
only 30 km of highways, out of the proposed 4,000 km, have
been upgraded.
Contact: NHAI. Tel: 011-2507 4100.
Fax: 011-2509 3507, 2509 3514.
Ports
CWC-Hind Terminals' logistics park at JNPT ready
Shipping giant Sharaf Group of Dubai has entered into a build-operate-and-manage
pact with the government-run Central Warehousing Corporation
for a logistics park near Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust. Hind
Terminals, wholly owned by the Sharaf Group, is building the
Rs 200 crore park in association with CWC. The park has 3
x 30,000 sq ft bonded warehousing facilities for exim trade.
Located 15 km from JNPT, it has a railway siding abutting
bonded warehouses and cold storage. Phase-I of the project
on 12.8 hectare, with a paved area of 0.7 million sq ft, is
ready for operation. The container yard can now accommodate
5,000 containers of 20-ft equivalent units. Eventually the
logistics park targets to handle 12,000 TEU containers.
Contact: Sharaf Group of Dubai.
Tel: 09714-352 0555/352 1555. Fax: 09714-352 6565/351 9517.
E-mail: sharafgp@sharaf.ae
Website: www.sharafgroup.com
PSUs propose giant JV to undertake dredging
The Mumbai Port Trust, the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust, the
Kolkata Port Trust, Mazagon Dock and the Shipping Corporation
of India have jointly proposed to the union government to
set up a Rs 6,000 crore JV to undertake dredging. The JV by
PSUs will compete with another PSU, Dredging Corporation of
India, noted for its poor performance. DCIL hardly meets 10
per cent of the demand from ports, leaving 90 per cent work
to foreign companies, while the demand is experiencing a tremendous
rise. The PSUs do not want to partner with foreign companies,
which allegedly form a cartel for dredging work in India.
After the promoter PSUs finally sign a JV agreement, they
propose to appoint a consultant to prepare a feasibility study
and look at dredging opportunities in neighbouring countries
too.
Contact: The Mumbai Port Trust.
Tel: 022-6656 5656. Fax: 022-2261 1011.
E-mail: mbpt@vsnl.com
Website: www.mumbaiport.gov.in
Nabard sanctions Rs 90 crore for Punjab rural roads
The National Bank for Agriculture and Development has agreed
to provide Rs 1,000 crore to the Punjab government for various
development schemes. Of this, Rs 90 crore will be used for
the construction of rural roads and upgrading existing ones.
Contact: Nabard. E-mail: contact@nabard.org
Vizag port to ramp up rail connectivity
Rail facilities within Visakhapatnam Port Trust's operational
area are to be augmented at an estimated cost of Rs 35 crore.
The new facilities are to ensure smooth handling of rail traffic
to and from the port. The port, which currently handles 30
rakes a day, will have a load of 50 by 2013-14. VPT will also
need to handle container traffic to the tune of 500,000 twenty-tonne
equivalent units, about 35 per cent of which will be rail
borne.
The container terminal therefore will handle three rakes each
way per day, instead of the two at present.
Contact: Visakhapatnam Port Trust.
Tel: 0891-287 6001. Fax: 0891-256 5023.
E-mail: info@vizagport.com
Website: www.vizagport.com
L&T to invest Rs 2,000 cr for port-cum-shipyard
The mega greenfield shipyard proposed to be set up by L&T
at an investment of Rs 2,000 crore may be attached to a port
facility making it an integrated port-cum-shipyard. The company
will need to invest quite a bit in a breakwater facility and
feels it makes sense that the cost be shared between a port
and a shipyard. The company has been looking for 1,200 acre
of land in Chennai and Kakinada in the east and Mundra in
the west to set up the facility. The port-cum-shipyard is
likely to be a JV with L&T holding the majority stake.
Contact: L&T. Tel: 022-2261 8181.
Fax: 022-2268 5858. Website: www.larsentoubro.com
Kerala revives defunct maritime company
The Kerala government has revoked an agreement signed by the
previous government with Eeco Company for the construction
of a marina-cum-cargo harbour at Alappuzha. A new project
is being formulated covering more areas at the site, which
may take a while to see the light of day. Just Rs 1.25 crore
has been sanctioned for constructing a cargo terminal at Beypore,
which has been opened for the convenience of passengers from
Lakshad-weep. The government has revived the defunct PSU Kerala
Maritime Develop-ment Corporation and wants to bring its fortunes
up. The state government wants to establish a maritime institute
in the state.
Contact: The Kerala Government.
Website: www.kerala.gov.in
SNAPSHOTS
Kolkata Metro Railways plans upgradation; to purchase 13
new rakes at a cost of Rs 28 crore.
Cochin International Airport is seeking a foreign partner
to take a stake worth at least Rs 2,500 crore.
Plaza Premium Lounge, Hong Kong, to maintain and manage lounges
at the upcoming international airport at Shamshabad.
DaimlerChrysler India Ltd to set up new manufacturing facility
at Pune at an investment of Rs 274 crore.
Private firms may end up having 74 per cent stake in the new
rolling stock manufacturing units for Indian Railways.
Railways plans bullet train services on the Thiruvananthapuram-Kochi-Chennai-Mangalore
sectors; cost Rs 45 crore per km.
Shreyas Shipping adds warehousing facilities in Delhi, Kandla,
Kochi and Tuticorin; to extend land-based transport network.
Shipping Corporation of India is scouting for an international
consultant for a JV with a PSU to enter the dredging market.
The Government to sign MoUs with international flight training
institutes to train pilots and technical staff for the airline
industry.
Chennai Port Trust to construct a roll on/roll off car terminal
at Rs 80 crore; project on BOT basis for 30 years.
JK Tyre to invest Rs 170 crore to ramp up truck-bus radial
and off-the-road tyre manufacturing capacities.
Satellite port planned at Tuna near Kandla with a four-berth
configuration; planned capacity is 16 million tonne; estimated
cost Rs 1,200 cr.
Airports Authority of India will modernise Chennai airport;
cost around Rs 2,350 crore.
India has finally been awarded a Formula One grand prix slot.
IOA will promote the first event in 2009.
Plans for an East-West Metro to connect Howrah and Salt Lake
in Kolkata; planned investment is Rs 5,000 crore.
SCI targets fleet expansion over the next three years; 12
new ships will be delivered between 2008 and early 2010.
Airport Authority of India will be setting up a separate parking
facility at Ahmedabad airport for Airbus 380's jumbo aircraft.
The 15 km Duburi-Chorda Road in Jajpur district will be four-laned
at an estimated investment of Rs 90 crore.
Offshore berthing facility and ship building yard at Tuna
near Kandla port worth around Rs 2,000 crore.
Indian Railways have signed a coal transportation agreement
with Nagarajuna Power Corporation Limited.
New Delhi railway station to be transformed into a world-class
station through PPP before the Commonwealth Games 2010.
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