3 new oil jetties at Kandla to double liquid cargo handling
The Deendayal Port Trust (DPT) will develop three new oil jetties at a cost of over Rs 550 crore, which will help double its present liquid cargo handling capacity at Kandla in Gujarat.
DPT, one of the 12 major ports in India, operates six oil jetties at Kandla which can handle 12 million metric tonne of liquid cargo per annum.
“We have a lot of oil jetties coming up at Kandla. We already have six. Two are under construction and tenders for three more have been floated,” said Sanjay Mehta, chairman of DPT, which floated three tenders for constructing oil jetties number 9, 10 and 11 recently.
