| KoPT initiative to operationalise Eden channel | 29-OCT-09 |
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| The Kolkata Port Trust (KoPT) board on Wednesday approved the commencement of the preliminary work required to operationalise the Eden channel, an alternative to the silt-clogged Auckland channel that is the current route of exit and entry into the Haldia port. |
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| Using Kolkata port gets dearer | 14-OCT-09 |
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| After contending with falling draught, ineffectual infrastructure and severe congestion that have significantly affected trade, customers using the Kolkata port will now have to shell out a congestion surcharge to container shipping firms that service the Kolkata Port Trust (KoPT)-administered facility. |
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| KoPT expects 1 lakh TEUs after mechanisation | 01-SEP-09 |
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| After touching record container volumes in July, the Kolkata Dock System(KDS), under the Kolkata Port Trust(KoPT), is now all set to mechanise berth number five at Netaji Subhas Dock(NSD) under public-private partnership(PPP) basis and expects the cargo handling capacity to move up from current 60,000 TEUs per annum to one lakh TEUs per annum post mechanisation. |
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| Kolkata Port invites EoIs for developing port at Sagar island | 10-AUG-09 |
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| In search of deeper draft locations to expand port operations, the Kolkata Port Trust(KoPT) has invited expressions of interest(EoI) for port facilities at Sagar island, around 47 kilometers from Haldia located at the confluence of the river Hooghly. |
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| Kolkata Dock achieves record container handling | 06-AUG-09 |
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| The Kolkata Dock System (KDS) under the Kolkata Port Trust(KoPT) set an all time record in container handling since its inception in 1977 in July this year at 34,287 twenty-equivalent-units (TEUs). This surpassed its previous record of 33,219 TEUs handled in June 2009. During the first three months of this fiscal, KDS handled an all time high container traffic of 1,24,886 TEUs against 1,02,723 TEUs in April-July 2008, a growth of 21.57 per cent over the corresponding period last year. |
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| Shipping Ministry not to downgrade KoPT cargo target | 21-JUL-09 |
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| The Shipping Ministry has ruled out any possibility of revising downward the cargo target for the Kolkata Port Trust(KoPT) on account of loss of crude cargo to the Haldia-Paradip pipeline. It insisted that the port would have to innovate ways to attract new cargo. |
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| Kolkata Port turnaround now a IIM-A case study | 19-JUN-09 |
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| The Indian Institute of Management - Ahmedabad (IIM-A) has selected the case of turnaround of Kolkata Port Trust (KoPT) as a lesson in their academic programme as a case study ‘Kolkata Port: The story of turnaround’ for the management students. |
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| ABG overcomes KoPT board hurdle, bags contract | 27-APR-09 |
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| Kolkata Port Trust(KoPT) has decided to award the controversial tender for mechanisation of Haldia berths numbered two and eight to ABG Infraslogistics after a Trustee Board meeting, marked by high drama, as one of the labour union leaders, against awarding the tender voted in favour of the motion. |
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| KoPT may drop capital dredging plans, alleges HDBC, HDOF | 24-APR-09 |
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| The 'Haldia Dock Bachao Committee'(HDBC), an umbrella organisation that comprises five unions controlling employees and workers of the Haldia dock CITU, INTUC, AITUC and Hind Majdur Samiti, and the Haldia Dock Officers' Forum (HDOF), has alleged that the Kolkata Port Trust(KoPT) is mulling to drop its capital dredging plans in the face of escalated costs. |
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| KoPT starts direct container vessel feeder service to Yangon port | 03-MAR-09 |
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| The first direct container vessel feeder service between Kolkata Port and Yangon in Myanmar started today with Orient Express Lines,Singapore, commencing the service with a vessel named 'Mare Balticum' that reached the Netaji Subhas Dock with 325 container boxes. |
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| KoPT to see drop in cargo traffic | 02-MAR-09 |
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| For the first time in six years, Kolkata Port Trust (KoPT) is set to register a fall in cargo traffic over the previous fiscal as iron ore trade in the region is hit by the economic meltdown. |
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