Govt prepares roadmap to increase India’s port capacity to over 3,300 MTPA by 2025

29 Nov 2019 Evaluate

As a part of the National Perspective Plan (NPP) for the Sagarmala Programme, the government has prepared a roadmap to increase India’s port capacity to over 3,300 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) by 2025. Minister of State for Shipping Mansukh Mandaviya has said that an analysis of nation-wide end-to-end logistics flows of all key commodities at ports was carried out based on which NPP for the Sagarmala Programme was prepared in April 2016.

The minister further said that master planning of 12 major ports has been carried out and 95 capacity expansion and port modernizations projects have been identified. Major ports capacity has been re-rated for global benchmarks as per berthing policy 2016 and effective capacity has increased by 293 MTPA after re-rating. Global benchmarks have been adopted to improve the efficiency and productivity for major ports and 116 initiatives have been identified to unlock 100 MTPA of capacity at major ports.

Mandaviya also said that an action plan for coastal shipping has also been prepared by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in September 2019. He noted that the plan includes recommendations concerning infrastructure creation required to increase the use of coastal shipping in India.

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