{"id":150,"date":"2007-07-03T11:49:42","date_gmt":"2007-07-03T15:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orissawatch.org\/Infra\/?p=150"},"modified":"2007-07-03T11:50:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-03T15:50:00","slug":"tatasteel-dhamara-port-and-greenpeace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/archives\/150","title":{"rendered":"Tatasteel, Dhamara port and Greenpeace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently there were some reports on Greenpeace&#8217;s opposition to the Dhamara port. Following are some excerpts of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/markets\/feeds\/afx\/2007\/07\/02\/afx3877046.html\">a news report<\/a> that talks about Tata Steel&#8217;s response.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>India&#8217;s Tata Steel Ltd said it will go ahead with its 24.6 bln rupee joint venture with Larsen &amp; Toubro to set up an all-weather port at Dhamra, in the eastern Indian state of Orissa.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> Tata Steel spokesperson Yogesh Joshi said the company had no intention of abandoning the project and said work will continue as usual. &#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> Dhamra port is crucial for India as traffic is projected to grow to 2 bln tonnes by the year 2016, and all the ports of the country put together are presently handling only 760 mln tonnes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> Sheltered between the mainland and the Kanika Sands Island on the eastern coast, Dhamra port will be the deepest all-weather port of its kind in India, with a draught of 18.5 metres. It will be able to accommodate super cape-size vessels of up to 180,000 dead weight tonnes<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently there were some reports on Greenpeace&#8217;s opposition to the Dhamara port. Following are some excerpts of a news report that talks about Tata Steel&#8217;s response. India&#8217;s Tata Steel Ltd said it will go ahead with its 24.6 bln rupee joint venture with Larsen &amp; Toubro to set up an all-weather port at Dhamra, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ports-and-waterways-in-orissa","category-tatas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}