Adani Ports And SEZ To Acquire Controlling Stake In Krishnapatnam Port

Krishnapatnam Port

Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Limited (“APSEZ”), India’s largest port developer, operator, and logistics arm of the Adani Group will be acquiring a controlling stake of 75% from the existing shareholders of KPCL.

KPCL is located in the southern part of Andhra Pradesh, the state with the second-largest coastline of in India, and is a multi-cargo facility that handled 54 MMT in FY19.

This acquisition will accelerate APSEZ’s stride towards 400 MMT by 2025.

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Adani to buy 70% stake in Krishnapatnam Port

The deal will help APSEZ expedite the vision of handling 400 mt of cargo by 2025

Gautam Adani is looking to expand his ports empire by closing in on buying a 65-70 per cent stake in Krishnapatnam Port Company Ltd, the entity promoted by Hyderabad-based CVR Group to run a private deep-water port at Krishnapatnam in Andhra Pradesh’s Nellore district.

Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone (APSEZ), India’s biggest private port operator, is expected to pay more than 5,500 crore to buy the stake which...

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Krishnapatnam Port’s Navayuga Container Terminal Crosses 500,000 TEU Milestone

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Navayuga Container Terminal (NCT) reached an important milestone on 27th March 2019, by handling 500,000 TEU for the first time in a Financial Year. The half-millionth TEU was handled on vessel M.V. SSL Kutch. NCT witnessed stellar volume growth of almost 9-fold increase in the 5-year period starting from a modest 58,577 TEUs in FY 2013-14.

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Commenting on the development, Mr. Anil Yendluri, Director & CEO, Krishnapatnam Port Co. Ltd. said, “NCT has taken giant...

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GAC named Top Steamer Agent at Krishnapatnam Port

Nagaraja Sekhar, Assistant Manager, Shipping Services, GAC Krishnapatnam (left), receives the award from Sri S Faheem Ahmed, Principal Commissioner, Customs Commissionerate (Preventive), Vijayawada
Behind from left: R. Muthuraj, Indian Trade Service, Development Commissioner, Sri City SEZ, Andhra Pradesh, Anil Yendluri, Director & CEO, Krishnapatnam Port and V. Nagendra Rao, Additional Commissioner of Customs

GAC named Top Steamer Agent at Krishnapatnam Port 

3,000% increase in coastal calls...

http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2019/02/18/gac-named-top-steamer-agent-at-krishnapatnam-port/

Krishnapatnam eyes JNPT cargo

Privately built Krishnapatnam port (Nellore district of Andhra) has been eating, it says, into the earlier cargo share of the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT, at Navi Mumbai), the country’s largest container port.

Krishnapatnam, owned by Navayuga Engineering, was opened in 2008.

“Switching central India cargo to Krishnapatnam from JNPT would save seven to 10 days of transit time and also lower cost by $200-300 per TEU,” Vinita Venkatesh, director at Navayuga Container Terminal, told Business...

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