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Andhra Pradesh, India ports should be upgraded: Report

To ensure that Indian exports are globally competitive, a research by Amitendu Palit, Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore, looks at approaches that would align with the ongoing coastal economic development strategy, Sagarmala, and with the State’s strategy, which seeks to fully utilise the potential of having India’s longest coastline.

One of these approaches would be to upgrade one of Andhra Pradesh’s ports with state-of-the-art facilities that significantly enhance its maritime trade capacity — and, at the same time, ‘backward’ linking of the port with the hinterland, to enable fast movement of cargo and a reduction in logistics costs.This would increase the port capacity by 20 million tonne a year, substantially increasing revenue over the coming decades, worth Rs 1,695 crore.

The main costs in the project include new and upgraded facilities: like a container freight station, expanded berths and more dredging, along with land acquisition and expanding highways around the port. The fixed costs including substantial operating costs over the 20-year period come to Rs 1,985 crore.

 

 
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