The Multi Modal
Logistics Parks under construction at Nagpur, Chennai and Bengaluru are
expected to be commissioned in the next two years according to official
sources.
The park coming up at Mappedu in North Chennai will
serve as many as three major ports including Chennai, Kamarajar and Katupalli the private port
owned by the Adanis. Four container terminals operate here with a turnover of
nearly five million TEUs a year.
Another Multi
Modal logistics park conceived by the Chennai port at Jolarpet has been shot down
as the Southern railway declined part with the necessary land for the project
demanding higher compensation. The project has since been scaled down to that
of a goods shed.
The project
pioneered by former Chennai port chairman P Raveendran would have made a big
dent into the current practice of evacuation by road nearly 90 per cent of the
containers in Chennai port. Under this proposed project containers coming from
Bengaluru, Coimbatore belt including Tirupur will be handled by the customs and
other enforcement agencies at Jolarpet park and sent to Chennai port’s
container terminals by freight trains to be loaded into the ships. The Exim
Industry in Chennai is keen on restoration of the project. The official reason
given for giving up the project is that another MMLP is coming up Mappedu near
Chennai.
Under the second
phase, locations for setting up the MMLPs are Udaipur (Tripura), Tuticorin
(Tamil Nadu), Jodhpur (Rajasthan), Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh), Siliguri (West
Bengal), Ranchi (Jharkhand), Haridwar (Uttarakhand), Bikaner (Rajasthan), Dighi
(Maharashtra), Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh), and Bidkin (Maharashtra)
The government has identified eleven locations across
the country to set up Multi Modal Logistics parks under the second phase of the Bharat Mala Parijojana
scheme. This would take the total number parks coming up in the country to 53. |