{"id":1758,"date":"2008-12-13T19:20:35","date_gmt":"2008-12-13T23:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/?p=1758"},"modified":"2009-11-29T12:25:20","modified_gmt":"2009-11-29T16:25:20","slug":"jsw-eyes-port-in-balasore-district-on-the-orissa-w-bengal-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/archives\/1758","title":{"rendered":"JSW eyes making a port in Balasore district on the Orissa-W. Bengal border"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following is from a report in Telegraph<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Sajjan Jindal’s JSW Group is close to getting an approval from the Orissa government to build a port for its 10-million-tonne steel plant in Bengal.<\/p>\n

The group has pitched for 4 out of the 12 bids offered by the Orissa government to investors for developing a port in the state.<\/p>\n

Information trickling in from the government indicate that JSW may get the approval to build a port in Baleshwar district on the Bengal-Orissa border, south of Digha<\/u>.<\/p>\n

The port will cater to the upcoming steel plants in Bengal and Jharkhand.<\/p>\n

Biswadip Gupta, joint managing director of JSW Bengal Steel Ltd, said the port would be closer to the project site than Haldia. “It will be about 110 km from our plant at Salboni in West Midnapur compared with a distance of 130 km from Haldia,” he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Note that there has been interest from others on a port in Kirtania. In particular, Creative ports signed an MOU about a port in Kirtania<\/a> with Orissa government in 2006. Is JSW talking about a port in Kirtania or between Kirtania and Digha?<\/p>\n