{"id":3387,"date":"2011-04-20T22:22:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T21:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/coastlink\/2011\/04\/20\/india-haphazard-terminal-growth-criticised\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:31:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:31:13","slug":"india-haphazard-terminal-growth-criticised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/2011\/04\/20\/india-haphazard-terminal-growth-criticised\/","title":{"rendered":"India haphazard terminal growth criticised"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has claimed that such a policy will result in steady environmental degradation and have disastrous consequences in the long-run. It suggests that promoters need to undertake comprehensive studies when promoting box terminal schemes which need to be seen in a global scenario, when apportioning traffic to regions.<\/p>\n<p>As an example of the problem, it cites the Vallarpadam and Vizinjam projects, located just 120 km from one another, but due to handle essentially the same transhipment traffic.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, with the Shipping Ministry has stated that existing ports are operating at 90%-100% capacity, and that overall capacity needs to grow threefold.<\/p>\n<p>Current capacity is around 963m tonnes, but by 2020 this will need to be 3.23bn tonnes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Expert Appraisal Committee of Indias Ministry of Environment and Forests has issued a warning against the haphazard and piecemeal growth of container terminals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3388,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-3387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3389,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3387\/revisions\/3389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3387"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=3387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}