Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Thursday, Jun 13, 2002
Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Thursday, Jun 13, 2002 |
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Logistics
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Shipping Kolkata port, DCI sign fresh contract Our Bureau
KOLKATA, June 12 THE Kolkata Port Trust (KoPT) has signed a fresh maintenance dredging contract with the state-owned Dredging Corporation of India (DCI). The contract will be valid for five years, subject to a review after two years, it is learnt. As per the contract, DCI will remove 18 million cubic metres of silt every year from the river Hooghly at an estimated cost of Rs 300 crore annually. To execute the job, DCI will deploy five of its dredgers. According to KoPT sources, four dredgers have already started operations]while the fifth is due to arrive shortly. The removal of the targeted volume of silt by DCI is expected to improve the depth of the river at Jellingham to five metres to achieve a draft of more than nine metres. Right now the depth is around 4.6/4.7 metres, equivalent of the draft of around 8.5 metres. Last year DCI had removed 21 million cubic metres of silt from the river but barely achieved five metres of depth against the KoPT's insistence on 5.2 metres. Even that five-metre depth could not be maintained throughout the year. Along with DCI dredgers, KoPT's own dredgers are also deployed in maintenance dregding. Last year, the KoPT dredgers removed about one million cubic metres; the target for the current year has been set at two million cubic metres, it is further learnt.
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