Kamarajar port

Kamarajar port appoints new chairman

Sunil Paliwal, a 1993 batch Tamil Nadu Cadre IAS Officer, took charge as Chairman-cum-Managing Director of Kamarajar Port Ltd.

Before this, Sunil Paliwal was Tamil Nadu Labour and Employment Secretary. Starting his career as Sub Collector of Cuddalore district, he had also served as Additional Collector in Nagapattinam district and Collector of Tirunelveli, Theni and Kanniyakumari districts.

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GAC India handles first tanker at new LNG terminal

Marshall Islands-flagged LNG carrier ‘LNG/C Golar Snow’

GAC India handles first tanker at new LNG terminal 

India, 11 March 2019– GAC has handled the first tanker to berth at the newly constructed Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) terminal inside Kamarajar Port, Ennore in Chennai, India. The Marshall Islands-flagged LNG carrier ‘LNG/C Golar Snow’ was carrying the first consignment of 78,037m³ of LNG from Ras Laffan in Qatar for the commissioning of the terminal.

Agency operations were overseen by...

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Kamarajar Port to become a subsidiary of Chennai Port Trust

Kamarajar Port was originally designed as a satellite port to Chennai Port Trust to handle dusty cargo such as coal and iron ore and free Chennai, just 20 kms away, from such cargoes polluting the city. However, it later diversified to cater to clean cargo including containers, pitting itself in direct competition with Chennai Port Trust, creating over capacity in and around Chennai.

Being a corporate port, Kamarajar is free to set rates based on market forces while the rates at the 11 major...

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Maersk’s shift in its operations

In what could mark the start of intense competition among four container terminals located across three ports (Chennai, Kamarajar and Kattupalli) within a distance of 30 km near Chennai, container vessel Leonidio of the global shipping line Maersk berthed, for the first time, at the Adani Ennore Container Terminal (AECT) inside the Kamarajar port in Ennore on Saturday (Oct. 20).

It also marks a complete shift in operations by Maersk – the world’s largest shipping line – to Ennore from Chennai...

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