Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone (APSEZ) has emerged as the highest bidder for the West Bengal government's greenfield deep-sea port project at Tajpur in a neck-to-neck fight with JSW Group. West Bengal government expects that the first phase of the project will be completed in three-four years, and it will be operational.
The company will get 125 acres of seafront land for the development of the port, and another 1,000 acres, situated 4 km away, for port-linked industrial development.
The price bid for the tender, floated by the West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation (WBIDC), was opened on March 23, 2022 in the presence of the bidders -- APSEZ and JSW Infrastructure.
Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone (APSEZ), a part of globally diversified Adani Group, is the largest integrated logistics player in India.