Bhubaneswar, Dec 7 (PTI) Essar Ports' Bulk Terminal inParadip has achieved an average productivity of 90,000 tonnesper day, registering an over 20 per cent rise in cargohandling so far this fiscal.
The CQ3 terminal at Paradip Port, operated by EssarBulk Terminal Paradip Limited (EBTPL), handled 2.8 MMTPAtill November this year as against 2.3 MMTPA during the sameperiod a year ago, a senior Essar Ports official said.
The terminal at Paradip Port has been turningaround large parcels of load in "record time" sincecommissioning, the official said.
The system is able to load vessels with turnaroundunder two days, he said.
EBTPL, an Essar Ports company, has also receivedappreciation from Paradip Port Trust for loading 100,000tonnes equivalent in a day, with a peak load rate of 4,500tonnes per hour (TPH), the "highest loading rate achieved tilldate in Paradip Port for iron ore and pellets", he said.
EBTPL was awarded 15-year license in 2010 to mechaniseand operate the CQ3 terminal from Paradip Port under themechanisation programme undertaken by Shipping Ministry.
The company increased capacity of the conventional(manual) berth from 4 MTPA to 16 MTPA at a cost of Rs 565crore.
The official said the terminal is used extensively toload pellets produced at Essar Steel's 6-million tonne Paradipplant onto vessels bound for its Hazira Steel Complex, wherethe pellets are used in the steelmaking process.
This has helped significantly cut down environmentalpollution caused by road transportation, he said. PTI SKNRBT.
This is unedited, unformatted feed from the Press Trust of India wire.