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India’s Rs 72,000-cr Great Nicobar project aims to be the Jebel Ali of the east, says maritime historian

October 11, 2025 Ports, Project Cargo, Shipping, Trade, Transhipment Port, Trending News
When Dubai built the Jebel Ali Port in the late 1970s, skeptics called it a folly in the desert. Today, it is the cornerstone of the Gulf’s economic success. Drawing that parallel, maritime historian

Great Nicobar project: Shipping Ministry proposes cruise terminal, high-end tourism infra

January 6, 2025 Ports, Cruise Tourism, Infrastructure, Shipping, Terminal, Transhipment Port, Trending News
NEW DELHI : An international cruise terminal to facilitate a “global” port-led city, “high-end” tourism infrastructure, and a ship-breaking yard are among the new additions to the ₹72,000 crore mega-infrastructure project in Great Nicobar

Galathea Bay : New major port can be game changer

October 21, 2024 Transhipment Port, Ports, Shipping, Trending News
NICOBAR : A quarter century after Kamarajar Port was named the country’s 12th major port, the mega international container transshipment port (ICTP) at Galathea Bay — in the Great Nicobar Island in the Bay

Great Nicobar Transhipment Port : Centre to invite tenders for first phase of container terminal next month

January 6, 2024 Ports, Container Terminal, Transhipment Port, Trending News
NEW DELHI : The eagerly awaited tender for the first phase of the International Container Transshipment Port (ICTP) in Galathea Bay, Andaman Nicobar Island, is set to be released next month. “Tenders would be

SMP, Kolkata to submit detailed project report of Great Nicobar transhipment project soon

January 4, 2024 Container Terminal, Ports, Transhipment Port, Trending News
KOLKATA : The Syama Prasad Mookherjee Port (SMP), formerly known as Kolkata Port, is set to submit the detailed project report (DPR) for the ambitious International Container Transhipment Port (ICTP) at Galathea Bay in

Great Nicobar may soon get an international container terminal

December 26, 2023 Ports, Container Terminal, Trending News
NEW DELHI : Indian Government is working on ways to electrify the proposed development of Great Nicobar Island as an international container terminal and transshipment port through green energy and gas-based power. India plans

Sarbananda Sonowal visits Galathea Bay and reviews progress of proposed ICTP

November 24, 2023 Maritime, Foreign Ports, Ports, Shipping, Transhipment Port, Trending News
NEW DELHI : Union Minister for Ports, Shipping and Waterways (MoPSW) and Ayush, Shri Sarbananda Sonowal visited the site of the proposed International Container Transhipment Port (ICTP), at Galathea Bay, Great Nicobar Island and reviewed its

Govt receives 9 EoIs for Rs 41,000 Cr Int’l transshipment port project at Great Nicobar Island

May 6, 2023 Maritime, Ports, Trending News
NEW DELHI : The ports ministry has received expressions of interest (EOIs) from nine players for the Rs 41,000 crore international transshipment port project at Great Nicobar Island in the Bay of Bengal, a

India gears up to build US$5 billion container transhipment project off Bay of Bengal Island

January 30, 2023 Maritime, Economy, Ports, Trending News
NEW DELHI : India is stepping up efforts to counter other established South Asian hub ports, such as Sri Lanka’s Colombo, Singapore and Malaysia’s Port Klang, which dominate the subcontinent transshipment activity. In a

EoI to be invited for the International Transhipment Port at Great Nicobar Island

January 28, 2023 Ports, Trending News
Salient features of the Project NEW DELHI : Working towards the Island Development program announced by the Government, the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways, as part of the Holistic Development of Great Nicobar



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