Eversun Marine wins RS 66-cr contract for Vizag port upgrade

Visakhapatnam: Visakhapatnam Port Authority (VPA) under the Chairmanship of Dr M Angamuthuis implementing asset monetisation to become landlord port.

As part of it, VPA on Friday issued Letter of Award (LoA) on Eversun Marine Trade Private Limited, Visakhapatnam for the Rs 66.12-crore PPP project for the work “development and mechanisation of existing East Quay–6 berth in the Inner Harbour of Visakhapatnam Port for handling all types of cargos on DBFOT basis” in the presence of heads of departments and Project Monitoring Unit chief. Chairperson, VPA, informed that the facility would add more throughputs to the Port of Visakhapatnam.

The proposed facility is a semi-mechanisation of the existing EQ-6 berth with length of 255 meters, which involves installing new Harbour Mobile Crane (HMC) with 1500 TPH and Mobile Hopper of 150 T along with other handling equipments i.e. cranes, loaders, trucks and forklifts with an investment of Rs 66.12 crores, which can handle all types of cargos with handling capacity of 2.62 MMTPA.

The facility developed is envisaged for handling vessels up to 50,000 DWT, maximum LoA of 200 meters with a beam of 32 meters at a draft of 11.50 meters. The entire construction work including installation of new HMC and other project facilities is likely to complete within 15 months from the date of award of concession. The total concession period is 30 years.

The proposed facility is likely to generate employment to at least 100 direct and indirect employment to locals and shall be with state-of-art-technology.