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Adani Ports & SEZ Ltd (APSEZ), a prominent Indian port developer, has signed an agreement with the CMA CGM group of France to develop a new common user container terminal at Mundra port. This will be the fourth container terminal in Mundra and will be capable of handling 1.3 million teu annually. Facilities will include a 650m long quay, with a 16.5m draft alongside, and 27 hectares of back-up area. Container handling equipment will include four super-post-panamax quayside gantry cranes, and 12 RTGs.
This 50:50 joint venture partnership is a further important step for APSEZ as it expands its container terminal network across India. The company has two existing container handling locations at Mundra and Hazira along with already announced terminals to be constructed at Ennore in Chennai and Dhamra in Odisha. For CMA CGM, Mundra Container Terminal is the group’s first port investment in India.
In another important development APSEZ has received environment and coastal regulation zone clearance from the Union Ministry for Environment and Forests, for its 8,481 hectares special economic zone in Mundra. The clearance will now allow the company to set up a large scale desalination plant, an effluent treatment plant and intake of sea water, all of which constitute primary infrastructure to be provided for companies setting up business units in the special economic zone which will host industries that will generate additional cargo volumes for the port.
