Kamarajar Port plans 2nd marine liquid terminal.

Kamarajar Port Ltd. in Ennore plans to put up a second marine liquid terminal on public-private-partnership mode at a cost of ₹393 crore with a capacity of 3 million tonnes per annum (MTPA).

It has issued an advertisement for Request for Qualification (RFQ) to select the private developer.

KPL chairman-cum-managing director MA Bhaskarachar said the portwill carry out capital dredging at a cost of ₹75 crore. The developer will be selected by the year end and the terminal is expected to be commissioned by the end of 2019, he told BusinessLine.

Consultants AECOM prepared the project report for the second marine liquid terminal, which will be a common user facility with POL products receiving jetty located on the southern side of the existing liquid terminal, he said.

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