The shipping ministry is planning to award six port development projects worth Rs 2,183 crore in the southern states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka as part of its 100-day agenda programme.

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This apart, it has proposed to declare Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Lakshadweep as major ports, taking the total number of major ports in the country to 14. The projects would come up under the public private partnership (PPP) model, said shipping minister G K Vasan.

The projects include a Rs 1,407-crore container terminal with a capacity of 1.5 million twenty foot equivalent unit (TEUs) at Ennore Port, near Chennai.

The second project involves development of a container terminal with a capacity of 470,000 TEUs for Rs 312.23 crore at the Tuticorin port.

The ministry is also looking at commissioning a small ship division at Cochin Shipyard Ltd in Kerala at an estimated cost of Rs 98.63 crore.

Among others, the Phase II of capital dredging of National Waterways No 3 on the west coast canal from Kollam to Kottapuram along with Champakara and Udyogmandal canals in Kerala will be implemented at Rs 89.74 crore.

A mechanised iron ore handling facility as a backup requirement to deep draft at the multipurpose Berth No 14 would be developed at Rs 277.11 crore at the New Mangalore Port in Karnataka.

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