That is according to The Hindu, which quoted a top official as saying that gas services are due to begin by the year end.<\/p>\n
The LNG terminal, which will have an annual capacity of 5 million tonnes, is a joint venture between Adani Enterprises Ltd and Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation (GSPC).<\/p>\n
Gas plan<\/strong><\/p>\n In addition to the LNG terminal, the plan is also to construct an LPG terminal with an annual capacity of 3.6 million tonnes.<\/p>\n In November last year, Petronet LNG Ltd dropped plans to buy 25% stake in the Mundra LNG import terminal to allow its promoter Indian Oil Corp Ltd to pick a larger stake.<\/p>\n Indian Oil had been talking to GSPC for almost two years with regards to acquiring a 50% stake in the terminal.<\/p>\n Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd (APSEZ) is the country’s largest port developer and the part of the Adani Group.<\/p>\n The group has just inaugerated Dhamra Port’s Phase II expansion, a successful example of a public-private partnership with new facilities including two special bulk cargo berths, fertiliser complex and barge berth.<\/p>\n Last year, Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone (APSEZ), which includes nine ports including Mundra Port, handled 177 million tonnes an increase on 164 million tonnes in the previous year.<\/p>\n Most of this increase was in containers accounting for 50% of the throughput, followed by a 32% dry cargo including coal, fertilizers, mineral, steel and agri products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" India\u2019s Mundra Port is to commission a new LNG import terminal imminently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":93,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alternative-fuels-greenport"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","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=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/94"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}