Consultative Committee on Shipping Dicusses NMDP
The second meeting of the Parliamentary Consultative Committee attached to the Ministry of Shipping met here today to discuss the National Maritime Development Programme (NMDP). Welcoming the members, the Chairman of the Committee and Minister of Shipping Shri G. K. Vasan initiated the discussions.
The members were informed that:
• Andaman would soon be notified as a Major Port to join the league of the existing 12 Major Ports, which handle close to 72% of the total sea borne traffic of India.
• The Major Ports together have, as on 31 March 2010, a Cargo handling capacity of about 599.00 Million Tonnes.
• The traffic handled at these ports during 2009-10 was 560.97 MT, a growth of 5.74% despite global slow down and recessionary trends.
• In the Ports sector, 276 projects were identified to be taken up under NMDP for implementation between 1 April, 2005 and 31 March 2012, involving an investment of around Rs. 55804 crores at 2004-05 prices.
• With a thrust on Public Private Partnership, these projects aim at all-round development of the ports.
• The projected traffic of Major Ports during 2011-12 is 615.70 MT, and a capacity of about 800 is required to meet this traffic.
• Of the investment envisaged for the Ports, Rs 3609.00 crores comes through Budgetary Support, Rs. 13771.54 crores through the port’s internal resources, Rs. 34505.34 crores, through private sector and Rs. 3917.85 crores from other sources including investments by Ministry of Railways, NHAI, etc.
• Of the total NMDP projects envisaged, 50 have been completed at a cost of Rs. 5717.28 crores, in 74 work is in progress, at a cost of Rs. 16502.68 crores, work at 16 projects have been approved at a cost of Rs. 3100.33, but are yet to be awarded, 29 projects have been firmed up, costing Rs. 11561.39 crores, they are under the process of approval, 82 projects worth Rs. 19878.20 crores are under preliminary planning stage and 25 projects worth Rs. 5961.41 crores have been dropped.
• On completion of NMDP, an addition of 402.91 MT capacity is envisaged by 2011-12, and the overall capacity of major ports is expected to reach 800.41 MT.
• In the Shipping sector, Indian tonnage, as on 1 April 2010, is 9.61 MGT, ranking 17th in the world.
• Indian tonnage has steadily increased after the introduction of tonnage tax.
• NMDP has 111 projects worth Rs. 44535 crores in the shipping and inland water transport sector involving investment of approximately Rs. 44535 crores: of these 13 projects worth Rs. 3117.83 crores have been completed and 47 worth Rs. 6913.80 crores are under implementation
The members called for early and time bound completion of all NMDP projects to avoid cost overruns. The members also discussed and gave suggestions on various sector related issues including Cruise Shipping, the Floating University concept, utilization of the Andaman Port to develop trade with Thailand, betterment of the existing ports, shortage of pilots, shortage of training institutions, security of Indian vessels and security of Indians working in ships registered abroad, social and corporate responsibility of ports and major shipping corporations, land disputes at ports etc.
The members present at today’s meeting were Shri Francisco Cosme Sardinha, Shri Anirudhan Sampath, Shri Bibhu Prasad Tarai, Smt. Poonamben Veljibhai Jat, Shri J M Aaron Rashid and Shri Swapan Sadhan Bose.
The second meeting of the Parliamentary Consultative Committee attached to the Ministry of Shipping met here today to discuss the National Maritime Development Programme (NMDP). Welcoming the members, the Chairman of the Committee and Minister of Shipping Shri G. K. Vasan initiated the discussions.
The members were informed that:
• Andaman would soon be notified as a Major Port to join the league of the existing 12 Major Ports, which handle close to 72% of the total sea borne traffic of India.
• The Major Ports together have, as on 31 March 2010, a Cargo handling capacity of about 599.00 Million Tonnes.
• The traffic handled at these ports during 2009-10 was 560.97 MT, a growth of 5.74% despite global slow down and recessionary trends.
• In the Ports sector, 276 projects were identified to be taken up under NMDP for implementation between 1 April, 2005 and 31 March 2012, involving an investment of around Rs. 55804 crores at 2004-05 prices.
• With a thrust on Public Private Partnership, these projects aim at all-round development of the ports.
• The projected traffic of Major Ports during 2011-12 is 615.70 MT, and a capacity of about 800 is required to meet this traffic.
• Of the investment envisaged for the Ports, Rs 3609.00 crores comes through Budgetary Support, Rs. 13771.54 crores through the port’s internal resources, Rs. 34505.34 crores, through private sector and Rs. 3917.85 crores from other sources including investments by Ministry of Railways, NHAI, etc.
• Of the total NMDP projects envisaged, 50 have been completed at a cost of Rs. 5717.28 crores, in 74 work is in progress, at a cost of Rs. 16502.68 crores, work at 16 projects have been approved at a cost of Rs. 3100.33, but are yet to be awarded, 29 projects have been firmed up, costing Rs. 11561.39 crores, they are under the process of approval, 82 projects worth Rs. 19878.20 crores are under preliminary planning stage and 25 projects worth Rs. 5961.41 crores have been dropped.
• On completion of NMDP, an addition of 402.91 MT capacity is envisaged by 2011-12, and the overall capacity of major ports is expected to reach 800.41 MT.
• In the Shipping sector, Indian tonnage, as on 1 April 2010, is 9.61 MGT, ranking 17th in the world.
• Indian tonnage has steadily increased after the introduction of tonnage tax.
• NMDP has 111 projects worth Rs. 44535 crores in the shipping and inland water transport sector involving investment of approximately Rs. 44535 crores: of these 13 projects worth Rs. 3117.83 crores have been completed and 47 worth Rs. 6913.80 crores are under implementation
The members called for early and time bound completion of all NMDP projects to avoid cost overruns. The members also discussed and gave suggestions on various sector related issues including Cruise Shipping, the Floating University concept, utilization of the Andaman Port to develop trade with Thailand, betterment of the existing ports, shortage of pilots, shortage of training institutions, security of Indian vessels and security of Indians working in ships registered abroad, social and corporate responsibility of ports and major shipping corporations, land disputes at ports etc.
The members present at today’s meeting were Shri Francisco Cosme Sardinha, Shri Anirudhan Sampath, Shri Bibhu Prasad Tarai, Smt. Poonamben Veljibhai Jat, Shri J M Aaron Rashid and Shri Swapan Sadhan Bose.
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