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Tuticorin:

Tuticorin Port to invest Rs 700cr for coal handlingfacilitiesT E Narasimhan / Chennai May 25, 2009, 0:17 IST

The Tuticorin Port will develop coal handling facilities for state-run Neyveli LigniteCorporation (NLC) and Coastal Energy Company with a combined investment of aroundRs 700 crore.

Tuticorin Port Trust chairman GJ Rao said the NLC facility would come up at the NorthCargo berth and have a capacity of 5 million tonnes a year. The port has already floateda tender for developing the facility. The proposed investment in the facility would be

around Rs 350 crore, which will be made by the corporation.

The imported thermal coal is meant for the upcoming Rs 4,900-crore 1,000 mega wattpower plant of NLC in Tuticorin. Both, power plant and coal handling facility, areexpected to commence operation by mid -2011, said Rao.

For Coastal Energy, the port would invite request for qualification (RFQ) on June 30.Coastal Energy is planning to set up a 250 Mw coal-based power plant with aninvestment of around Rs 1,200 crore. The handling facility, also with around Rs 350

crore investment, would become operational by mid-2012 and handle 5 million tonnes of coal a year.

The port, located at the southern tip of the country, handled 5.5 million tonnes of thermal coal and 2.1 million tonnes of industrial coal in 2009-10. To attract industrialcoal traffic, it recently announced a 30 per cent reduction in tariff.

Rao said the coal traffic would remain at the same level in 2009-10 but was expected toincrease three-fold from 2011-12 on the back of a few power projects, which are likely tocommence operations in 2011-12.

Besides, the port has received expression of interest from two companies ² MadrasCements and Dubai-based Coal and Oil Company ² for the development of itsproposed Rs 1200-crore power plant at Hare Island in Tuticorin. It is now in the processof creating a detailed project report for the project.



Tuticorin Coal Terminals

UNLOADING AT THE TUTICORIN COAL TERMINALS FOR

TNEB¶S POWER PLANTS

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In Tuticorin, India, TNEB operates a five-units coal fired power plant, that receive

coal via rail and sea route. Although shore-mounted continuous unloading

systems were also considered during the development of the Tutuicorin coal

terminals, geared vessels with mounted grab unloaders won the race.

Two coal terminals at the Tuticorin Port receive the coal for TNEB¶s power plant.

Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (TNEB) have installed five Units of 210 MW capacity since

the 1970s in Tuticorin which is on the Tamil Nadu coast. The first three units came up

around the early 1980s and the units no. 4 and 5 were installed in mid 1990s. All the

five units receive coal from Talchar and other mines in the state of Orrisa in India. Coal

movement from the mines to the power station is through rail and sea route. Two coal

terminals are installed for the purpose.

OLD TUTICORIN PORT

Old Tuticorin Port is situated on the East Cost of India about 540 kilometres South West

of Madras. Located in the Gulf of Mannar with Sri Lanka on the South East and the

large land mass of India on the West. Tuticorin Port is well sheltered from the fury of



storms and cyclonic winds. It is strategically located very close to the major international

sea routes. This port is a port in operation since 1848 and is essentially a cargo port.

POWER PLANT TERMINALS

When TNEB planned the first three Units in the mid 1970s, the coal was to be sourced

from Bengal Behar mines from where the coal was to be moved through sea and rail

route. The old Tuticorin port was not found suitable to handle the traffic and hence

TNEB decided to develop a coal terminal near the power plant site. The work of

development of the coal terminal was done by the Port Trust of India.

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In the early 1980s, TNEB decided to expand the power station by adding two more

units. Hence a second terminal was also to be developed. The power plant

development was in two stages and so the port development was also in two stages. Inthe first stage a terminal with an average throughput of about 3 million tonnes of coal

per year was constructed in the mid 1970s and the second terminal also of similar

throughput was constructed in the mid 1990s to cater for the final two units which were

installed in the second stage of development.

Both the berths are located close to the power plant which is about 5 kilometres away

from the terminals. The old port is far away and transportation inside Tuticorin would

have been difficult.

FEATURES OF THE TUTICORIN COAL TERMINALS

Two break waters (north and south) have been erected to still the waters and enable the

free navigation of ships with a suitable turning circle. The draft available is about 10 to



15 metres and ships of 35000 to 50000 dwt capacity can call at these terminals. The

unloading berths are 235 metres long and 15.5 metres wide

UNLOADING AT THE TUTICORIN COAL TERMINALS FOR

TNEB¶S POWER PLANTS

Both the berths have single berthing facility. Mooring dolphins with an inter connecting

cat walk have been constructed on either side of the berths. The unloading berths are

located about 200 metres apart. Each berth has an average throughput of 3 million

tonnes per year.

The time required for anchoring, de-anchoring and other delays is considered as 12

hours, 2 hours for miscellaneous delays, 300 days in a year for unloading leaving 65

days for overhauling of the vessels and to allow for disruptions during inclemental

whether and 60 per cent berth occupancy. Ships will call at the terminals at regular

intervals without bunching of ships.

COAL UNLOADING SYSTEM

When the initial studies were carried out, a number of solutions have been investigated,

including such as unloading by means of shore mounted unloaders or unloading

through geared vessels. The shore mounted unloaders considered included both

continuous type and intermittent. However since domestic coal had to be unloaded,

large size lumps and stones present in the µas received¶ coal prevented adoption of

continuous berth mounted unloaders. Hence it was decided to adopt intermittent

unloaders of the grab bucket type.

Next, it had to be decided, whether the grab bucket unloaders should be berth-mounted

or installed on geared vessels. At the end, geared vessels were adopted to optimise the

cost during both stages of development. However, TNEB settled for unloading through

geared vessels fitted with seven (five working plus two stand-by) grab bucket cranes



which will give an aggregate free digging rate of 2000 tonnes per hour. The cranes in

the ship will unload into seven (five working plus two stand-by) travelling hoppers

mounted on the unloading berths below which the berth conveyor is installed.

Tuticorin port to cut coal handling charges

N. Anand

CHENNAI: Beginning February 1, the Tuticorin Port Trust will reduce the handling

charges for industrial coal by 30 per cent as a measure to promote trade, chairman

G.J. Rao said on Thursday.

³This scheme will be in force, on a trial basis, till March 31 and will benefit the trade

enormously. The trade will now be paying Rs.72.87 a tonne of coal against

Rs.104.96. We are charging a land rent of Rs.8 a month per square meter of coal,

the cheapest among the ports in India. Though we can handle 12 million tonnes of

coal, we are currently handling only 2 million tonnes a year,´ he told The Hindu.

Mr. Rao said tenders had been called for converting the eighth berth as a container

terminal at a cost of Rs.312 crore. It would have a capacity to handle 6 lakh

Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units (TEUs) of containers. The public-private partnership

appraisal committee had approved the proposal, and it was being forwarded to the

Cabinet. The Memorandum of Understanding would be signed with the bidder in

April or May, and the project would be completed in 18 months.

The port planned to construct three shallow water berths at a cost of Rs.20 crore

for handling smaller vessels, besides constructing North Cargo Berth-1 (NCB-1) at a

cost of Rs.45 crore to handle dusty cargo



Viskapatinam:

Mundra Port to set upcoal terminal at Vizag

portThe Adani Group-promoted Mundra Port & Special Economic

Zone(MPSEZ) has said it will be developing a coal import terminal on

the Visakhapatnam Port, which will be the third such facility by the

company, reports PTI.

The proposed terminal, which will be built at a cost of over Rs 300

crore, marks the entry of MPSEZ on the Eastern Coast, the country's

largest private multi-port operator said in a release in Ahmedabad

today.



The terminal, the Berth East Quay-1, will be designed to handle

imported coal volume of around 6.5 million tonne per annum and will

be commissioned within two years, it said.

"The contract to set up the berth on the Visakhapatnam Port marks

our entry on the East Coast. This is in line with our objective of having

pan- India presence" said Adani Group Chairman Gautam Adani said

in the release.

The Visakhapatnam Port Trust selected MPSEZ after a competitive

bidding and the contract is to develop a coal import terminal.

The Visakhapatnam Port is strategically located and the proposed

terminal will feed industries and power plants in Andhra Pradesh,

Orissa, Chhattisgarh and eastern Maharashtra.



Mundra is the largest privately-owned and operated port in India, and

is among the 10 largest ports in cargo handling volumes. It has

handled around 40 million tonne of cargo in 2009-10 and aims to

handle 50 MT in the current year.

MPSEZL, developing the country''s largest multi-product SEZ at

Mundra, operates ports at Mundra and Dahej (both in Gujarat) and is

developing one at Hazira and coal terminals at Mundra and Goa. It is

also developing ports in Australia and Indonesia.



Coal India Plans Venture WithVisakhapatnam Port to Build Berth

Coal India Ltd., the world¶s largest producer of the fuel, plans to form

a partnership with the Port of Visakhapatnam on the east coast to

increase import capacity as power generation demand rises.

The tie-up will initially allocate 5 million metric tons of port capacity

for coal imports, Coal India¶s technical director N.C. Jha said in an

interview in New Delhi today. The venture will later build a 20

million-ton coal berth, he said.

Demand for coal has outpaced domestic production in India, which

aims to provide electricity to every household by 2012. More than half

of India¶s power generation capacity is coal- fired and Coal India is

preparing to bring in additional supplies from overseas as it awaits

environmental approval for new mining projects.

Coal India, based in Kolkata, plans to import 6 million tons of coal in

the year ending March 31. The miner is in talks with companies,

including NTPC Ltd., India¶s largest power generation company, Jhasaid.

³How much we import and when will depend on buyers,´ he said. ³We

are telling our clients to strike a long-term purchase agreement with

us. The large volume will help us import coal at lower prices and

power companies will benefit.´

Coal India also plans to secure cargo capacity in an agreement with

Shipping Corp. of India Ltd., Jha said.

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