Gandhinagar, 6 March 2013

Construction of four new berths at Hazira port has been completed by the end of last year and transportation of goods also has started, Minister Bhupendrasinh Chudasama said today in the Gujarat Assembly in reply to a question.

He said the state government planned construction of five new berths to create facility for transportation of general cargo at Hazira port which primarily handles liquified natural gas(LNG) transportation.

The minister said, “new berths will be capable to handle general cargo such as containers, coal, fertilizer, automobile etc. Out of five new berths, two are built for containers, two others for multipurpose cargo and one more for other cargo transportation. Total capacity of five berths is 20 MT”.

He further said that in year 2007 Hazira port handled 2.01 MMT LNG, in 2008 1.56 MMT, 2009 1.41 MMT, 2010 1.03 MMT and in 2011 2.53 MMT. Thus in five years, total 8.54 MMT LNG was transported at Hazira LNG terminal.