Gadkari inaugurates Adani's Rs 1,270-cr container terminal near Chennai

The terminal is expected to change the nature of the port, along with other new facilities

Union Minister for Road Transport, Highways and Shipping Nitin Gadkari Thursday inaugurated projects worth Rs 1,492 crore, including a Rs 1,270-crore container terminal developed by Adani Group, in Kamarajar Port in Ennore, near Chennai.

The other projects include a multi-cargo terminal by Chettinad Group for Rs 151 crore, a railway line to the container and multi-cargo terminal for Rs 60 crore and a radio-frequency identification (RFID) system of Rs 11.82 crore.

The container terminal is expected to change the nature of the port, along with other new facilities, which will make it an all cargo port, said. company officials. The capacity of the container terminal is 1.4 million twenty-foot equivalent units (MTEUs).

The multi-cargo terminal will handle the break bulk and other general cargoes with deep draft 14.5 meters and has a capacity of 2 MTPA.

With the commissioning of these terminals, the capacity of Kamarajar Port has increased from 32 MTPA to 50 MTPA immediately, and 90 MTPA when on-going projects are completed in one to two years.