{"id":7091,"date":"2007-06-01T16:26:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-01T15:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2007\/06\/01\/haldia-dock-at-saturation-point\/"},"modified":"2007-06-01T16:26:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-01T15:26:00","slug":"haldia-dock-at-saturation-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/asia\/haldia-dock-at-saturation-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Haldia Dock at saturation point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>However, a new oil pipeline feeding Paradip port will divert an estimated 4m-5m tonnes of crude oil away from the port in 2007-08, which will lead to a loss of traffic.<\/p>\n<p>With this in mind, Haldia is seeking new cargo flows and two new berths are being added, while throughput of existing facilities could be improved by upgrading equipment.<\/p>\n<p>Kolkata Port Trust (KPT) chairman AK Chanda said: \u201cWe have an elaborate plan to carry out modernisation at Haldia following the PPP (public private partnership) model where the private party will do bulk of the investment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But while the two new berths will supplement capacity by 3m-4m tonnes, the port remains restricted by draught, which is an average of 8.5 metres at the Haldia Dock Complex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calcutta\u2019 s Haldia Dock Authority has conceded it has reached saturation point, with an increase last year of just 0.28% to 42.45m tonnes. Today, ships can wait up to 18-19 days before berthing.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-7091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7091"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=7091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}