{"id":3435,"date":"2010-03-28T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-28T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/?p=3435"},"modified":"2010-03-28T23:06:43","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T03:06:43","slug":"more-details-on-the-proposed-kalinga-port-by-adani-how-odisha-can-leverage-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/archives\/3435","title":{"rendered":"More details on the proposed Kalinga port by Adani; How Odisha can leverage it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>See also the earlier report at <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/archives\/3152\">http:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/archives\/3152<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr width=\"100%\" size=\"2\" \/>\n<p>Following is an <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dnaindia.com\/money\/report_adani-plans-huge-kalinga-port_1364642\">excerpt from dnaindia.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8230; The port may be called the Adani-Kalinga Port.<\/p>\n<p>The group has  been nurturing a desire to have a port on the eastern coast in addition  to the existing one on the western coast. It will help consolidate this  group&rsquo;s position in the port and shipping business in India.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover,  any group that owns major ports on both the western and eastern coasts  of India could be expected to play a major role in coastal shipping as  well, for ferrying goods from one coast to another, thus reducing costs,  time and the incidence of pilferage that plagues road transportation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; The proposed outlay is  around Rs 10,000 crore. According to current plans, this port is to have  16 berths, and will have a capacity of 100 million tonnes &mdash;- almost  similar to the capacity planned for Mundra.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; The interest of the Adani  group has been confirmed by Satyabrat Sahu, transport and commerce  secretary of Orissa, who is on record stating, &ldquo;The Adani Group has  given this proposal to set up a port. The state government is examining  the proposal.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; According  to senior people in both the Adani group as well as the Orissa  government, the process of examination is almost complete, and two of  three approvals required have been obtained.<\/p>\n<p>The last one should  be in hand in a few days.<\/p>\n<p>Adani officials said the port could be  developed in two phases <u>near Paradip in Jagatsinghpur district<\/u>, barely  three km from Jatadhari Muhan, where Posco India plans to set up its own  captive port.<\/p>\n<p>The group plans to invest Rs 5,000 crore in each of  the two phases. If all goes well, 12 of the 16 berths should be up and  running by 2015-16.<\/p>\n<p>According to current plans, the port will  handle coal, iron ore, liquid and containerised cargo. It may be  mentioned that the Adani group owns several coal mines in Indonesia.  Some of this coal is already being imported into India through the  Mundra port.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, the Adani-Kalinga port could be the entry  point for coal imports on the eastern coast as well, to feed many of the  power plans that are expected to come up south of the proposed  Adani-Kalinga port.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, since the Adani group has already  become India&rsquo;s largest player in the edible oil market through  Adani-Wilmar Ltd, and owns oil plantations in Malaysia, this port could  also play a significant part in edible oil imports.<\/p>\n<p>The Adanis  have also shown an interest in mining projects.<\/p>\n<p>What is not known at  this stage is the amount of land that will be available to the port,  since a successful port must have good draft (depth), lots of land for  storing goods meant to be shipped, and for evacuation of cargo that  arrives at the port and transportation linkages to the hinterland.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; Since  the Adani group has offered to the state government that it will be  willing to invest in road and railways networks in and around the port,  such a move could help in the overall economic growth of the state  itself.<\/p>\n<p>Such efforts could be further buttressed by hectic  lobbying by both the Posco management and the owners of Dhamra Port  (jointly owned by Larsen &amp; Toubro and the Tata Group) for improving  rail and road linkages on the eastern coast in India.<\/p>\n<p>As was the  case with the Mundra Port, the Adani group also plans to invest in power  projects near this port as well.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><u>The Odisha government should propose that Adani fund a new railway line along the proposed highway between Bhubaneswa\/Khurda to Paradip and also part of the Khurda-Balangir line<\/u>. The advantage for Adani will be:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They will have a shorter path for their oil and other imports to be distributed in south India.<\/li>\n<li>Similarly through the Khurda-Balangir route and with another short-cut from Balangir to Nawapara Rd (need to be constructed) they will have another quick access path to western and central India.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(The above mentioned three segments are shown in brown below.)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"515\" height=\"386\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-content\/uploads\/image\/orissarail-adani.GIF\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This will be a win-win situation in that it will allow both Adani and Odisha government to industrialize the Khurda-Balangir corridor and the interior areas such as Nayagarh, Phulbani and Bouda. Unlike the Railway line via Talcher and Angul and the one via Paradip-Haridaspur-Jakhapura-Keonjhar, the Paradip-Khurda-Balangir path will have less traffic from other entities, including very little passenger traffic, making it faster for Adani to send goods that way. Since the Khurda-Balangir corridor lacks industries the government may find it easier to find land and local support for industries in that corridor. In that case, it can encourage Adani and others to set up some of their planned industries in that corridor.<\/p>\n<p>All of the above assume that the above dnaindia.com report is correct in that Adani aims to import coal and oil through this port and not focus on exporting minerals from Odisha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See also the earlier report at http:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/archives\/3152. Following is an excerpt from dnaindia.com. &#8230; The port may be called the Adani-Kalinga Port. The group has been nurturing a desire to have a port on the eastern coast in addition to the existing one on the western coast. 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