Mundra Port SEZ to develop non-LNG port at Hazira

The Adani group-promoted Mundra Port and Special Economic Zone (MPSEZ) is all set to develop a non-LNG port at Hazira.

Hazira Port, which is a joint venture of Shell Gas BV and Total Gaz Electricite Holdings France, today issued a letter of intent to the Adani group for developing the port in the booming southern Gujarat industrial belt.

"Hazira Port has been operating LNG facilities there since 2005, today selected MPSEZ for developing a non-LNG cargo port for handling bulk, break-bulk, container and liquid cargo," an Adani group official said.

The proposed port will be the only common-user deep draft port facility in the region which would cater to the traffic originating/destined from and for south Gujarat, MP and northern Maharashtra.

The port will also be connected with a railroad to be developed by Rail Vikas Nigam though a special purpose vehicle, the official said, adding the existing NH-6 is being upgraded to six-lanes.

The MPSEZ, in addition to operating the country's largest private sector port at Mundra in the Kutch, is also setting up a cargo terminal at Dahej in south Gujarat and Mormugao Port in Goa.