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Vol. LX No. 117 th THURSDAY 9 JULY 2020
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Deendayal Port to develop 3 new Oil Jetties : Chairman This move will double Liquid cargo handling capacity GANDHIDHAM: 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 Mr. Sanjay Mehta, IFS, Chairman of DPT, which floated three tenders for constructing oil jetties number 9, 10 and 11 recently. “At present, liquid cargo forms 60 per cent of the total cargo volumes handled by DPT. With new jetties coming up, this capacity will go up,” he added. The liquid cargo handled
by DPT at Kandla includes petroleum, oil and lubricant products, edible oil, phosphoric acid and LPG. While jetty number 9 & 10 w i l l c o s t a r o u n d Rs 100-150 crore each, oil jetty number 11 will cost over Rs 356 crore. Two more jetties with 5 million metric tonne capacity are under constr uction. With the addition of these five jetties that are proposed and under construction, the total liquid cargo handling capacity at Kandla will go up to 24.5 million metric tonne per annum.
ZIM unveils New Digital Services CBIC enhances CRCL and Contactless Designed and Developed with the “Powered By Our Customers” approach HAIFA: During September 2019, ZIM officially announced of its revolutionary ‘Powered by Our Customers’ approach, an innovative concept, inviting customers to take an active part in designing and influencing ZIM’s Service Experience – For Customers, By Customers! Since than the concept has been put into practice throughout all ongoing developments of both existing and new digital services. Cont’d. Back Pg.
Customs for faster clearances
NEW DELHI: Shri M. Ajit Kumar, Chair man, Central Board of Indirect Taxes & Customs (CBIC) has unveiled several new and modern testing equipment inducted into the Central Revenues Control Laboratory (CRCL) which would significantly enhance the in-house testing capability of the Customs leading to faster import and export clearances. He also launched new IT functionalites for supporting “Contactless Customs” under the CBIC’s flagship programme, “Turant Customs”. Cont’d. Back Pg.