Monday, 09 May 2011
BL reported that rail movement to and from Orissa's Dhamra Port, a joint venture between TATA Steel and Larsen & Toubro, has started, marking the commissioning of the port.
On Sunday, the first railway rake, after loading of around 3,400 tonnes of imported coal at the port, left for TATA Steel's Jamshedpur plant.
Inquiries with the Railways reveal that a second rake had been requisitioned on Monday and hopefully there would be more such requisitions in coming days.
A spokesman for Dhamra Port Company told Business Line over phone from Dhamra, soon after the first rake was flagged off that “We've enough coal lying at the port, enough to load more than 10 rakes.”
It might be noted that the port level cargo handling facilities at Dhamra were in place more than six months ago, so much so that between September last year and April this year as many as four ships unloaded at the port a total of about 160,000 tonnes of coal imported from Australia. Since the rail connectivity was not ready then, the consignments, all on TATA Steel account, were reloaded in barges and sent to Haldia for a second round of discharge.
The rail connectivity to Dhamra port (62 km of route length and 120 km of track length including loops and siding) is the first test case under the new concept, R3is (Railways' Infrastructure for Industry Initiative), introduced by the Railways. (sourced from BL)
BL reported that rail movement to and from Orissa's Dhamra Port, a joint venture between TATA Steel and Larsen & Toubro, has started, marking the commissioning of the port.
On Sunday, the first railway rake, after loading of around 3,400 tonnes of imported coal at the port, left for TATA Steel's Jamshedpur plant.
Inquiries with the Railways reveal that a second rake had been requisitioned on Monday and hopefully there would be more such requisitions in coming days.
A spokesman for Dhamra Port Company told Business Line over phone from Dhamra, soon after the first rake was flagged off that “We've enough coal lying at the port, enough to load more than 10 rakes.”
It might be noted that the port level cargo handling facilities at Dhamra were in place more than six months ago, so much so that between September last year and April this year as many as four ships unloaded at the port a total of about 160,000 tonnes of coal imported from Australia. Since the rail connectivity was not ready then, the consignments, all on TATA Steel account, were reloaded in barges and sent to Haldia for a second round of discharge.
The rail connectivity to Dhamra port (62 km of route length and 120 km of track length including loops and siding) is the first test case under the new concept, R3is (Railways' Infrastructure for Industry Initiative), introduced by the Railways. (sourced from BL)
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