CONTAINER
TERMINALS AT MUMBAI
LOK SABHA
There are, at present,
two container terminals at Jawaharlal Nehru port, Navi Mumbai.
One container terminal is managed and operated by the Jawaharlal
Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) itself and the other one is managed and
operated by a private company, namely, Nhava Sheva International
Container Terminal Private Limited (NSICT) controlled by P&O
Australia Ports Pty Limited on Build, Operate and Transfer (BOT)
basis under a License Agreement with the JNPT.
It has been decided
to redevelop the existing Bulk Terminal at Jawaharlal Nehru Port
as a Container Terminal on BOT basis. Out of 12 parties who submitted
their applications in response to the ‘Request for Qualification"
notice issued by JNPT for this project, the Port Trust has short-listed
10 parties for participation in the bids and invited proposals
from them.
The existing
private Container Terminal Operator at Jawaharlal Nehru Port i.e.
Nhava Sheva International Container Terminal Private Limited,
its parent company and any other company belonging to its group
have been excluded from the bidding process for the project mentioned
above in the interest of promoting intra-port competition and
preventing private monopoly/concentration of power in a single
private party. The above information was given by Shri Dilipkumar
Mansukhlal Gandhi, Minister of State in the Ministry of Shipping
in a written reply to Shri Vinay Kumar Sorake in Lok Sabha today.
