Mumbai, July, 25 (EPC News): Dharma Port attained its first cape-size vessel with the arrival of a Chinese ship from Australia. The 290 metres long "China Steel Responsibility" ship, carried around 1.5 lakh tonnes of coal from Australia for Tata Steel and has a capacity of 1,80,000 dead weight tonnage. This is the largest vessel that Orissa, as well as neighbouring West Bengal, have received so far, they claimed. The ship, which berthed at the Dhamra Port jetty last evening, has 19 Chinese crew members on board.
Since the commencement of commercial operations at the port, a total of 94 full rakes (each rake consists of 59 wagons) of cargo have been sent from the port to various locations by rail. The 62 km Dhamra-Bhadrak rail link from the port is connected to the main Howrah-Chennai line.
EPC News Bureau
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| Posted on:7/25/2011 at 8:47 AM