Adani Ports buys Gopalpur Port for Rs 3,350cr

New Delhi: Shapoorji Pallonji Group (SP Group) on Tuesday announced the sale of its brownfield Gopalpur Port to Adani Ports and SEZ Ltd (AP SEZ) for an enterprise value of Rs3,350 crore, as part of its deleveraging strategy with planned asset monetisation. The under-construction Gopalpur Port in Odisha was acquired in 2017 by the SP Group. Currently, it is capable of handling 20 MTPA. The port had recently signed up with Petronet LNG for setting up a Greenfield LNG regasification terminal, adding predictable long-term cash flows for the port, the group said in a statement.

The sale of the Gopalpur Port is the second port divestment in the last few months from the SP Group, a diversified construction and infrastructure, real estate and energy conglomerate. It had earlier divested its Dharamtar Port in Maharashtra to JSW Infrastructure Ltd for an enterprise value of Rs710 crore. The group had acquired the Dharamtar Port in 2015 and had successfully turned around port operations, increasing capacity from less than 1 MTPA, when it took over to an expected capacity to handle 5 MTPA in FY24.

A spokesperson said: “The planned divestments of Gopalpur Port and Dharamtar Port, demonstrate our group’s ability to turn-around assets.”