PARADIP, Sept. 24 -- For the first time, maintenance dredging material would be utilised for land reclamation of the Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL) storage terminal at Paradip.
Unoin Minister of Shipping Mansukh Mandavyia has been encouraging Ports for such beneficial reuse of dredge material. This is a unique initiative being taken by the Dredging Corporation of India (DCI) with the Paradip Port Trust (PPT) and the NRL.
The NRL on Wednesday entered into a tripartite memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the PPT and the DCI for reclamation of the proposed 200 acres of land allotted to the NRL for setting up its crude oil import terminal (COIT) at Paradip Port.The MoU was signed by PPT Conservator Capt AK Mahapatra, DCI CGM Capt S Diva...