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Call to operate Fort Queen, owned by Kochi Corpn., in the sector
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According to KSINC sources, Fort Queen, which has been lying idle for over a year, can be operated in the Fort Kochi-Marine Drive sector using the existing infrastructure.
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Call to operate Fort Queen, owned by Kochi Corpn., in the sector
One of the two container roll-on roll-off (ro-ro) ferries of the Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) that were handed over to the Kerala Shipping and Inland Navigation Corporation (KSINC) to ferry container lorries and motorists on the Willingdon Island-Bolgatty Island route, might operate in the Fort Kochi-Marine Drive corridor if everything goes well, official sources said.
Varanasi: The plan for trade through waterways with Bangladesh through Prayagraj-Haldia National Waterway-I across the Ganga, Bhagirathi and Hooghly river systems moved another step ahead as a team of experts from Dhaka visited the riverport of Inland Waterways Authority of India at Ramnagar on Sunday to study the feasibility of using waterway for goods transportation.
IWAI deputy director (Varanasi) Rakesh Kumar told TOI on Monday, “A seven-member team from Bangladesh came here on Sunday and visited the riverport at Ramnagar to study whether it can be used as ‘port of call’ (an intermediate port where ships customarily stop for supplies, repairs, or trans-shipment of cargo) for shipping purposes by them. They saw all facilities available here and returned.”
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PM Narendra Modi to inaugurate slew of projects in Kochi today
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday will dedicate to the nation Bharat Petroleum s Propylene Derivatives Petrochemical Complex at Kochi Refinery and Inland Waterways Authority s Roll-on/Roll-off vessels, at Willingdon Island. He would also inaugurate Cochin Port Trust s International Cruise Terminal and Cochin Shipyard s Vigyana Sagar, campus for Marine Engineering Training Institute, an official press release said.
Modi will also lay the foundation stone of Cochin Port Trust s South Coal Berth.
Kerala Governor Arif Mohammad Khan, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and Union Ministers Dharmendra Pradhan and Mansukh L Mandaviya will attend the event, the release said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday dedicated to the nation a Rs 6,000 crore petrochemical complex of oil major Bharat Petroleum here and Ro-Ro vessels of Inland Waterways at Willingdon Islands. On a brief visit to Kerala, the Prime Minister also inaugurated the Cochin Port Trust s International Cruise Terminal and Cochin Shipyard s Vigyana Sagar, a campus for Marine Engineering Training Institute. At a function here, he also laid the foundation stone of Cochin Port Trust s South Coal Berth. BPCL said the Propylene Derivative Petrochemical Project (PDPP) located close to its Kochi Refinery here will produce Acrylic Acid, Oxo-Alcohol and Acrylates, which are predominantly imported, at present.