Republic of India’s First Standardised Modern Ship Design for River Ganga

[Hindustani78]

Ministry of Shipping
31-August, 2018 16:14 IST
IWAI Makes India’s First Standardised Modern Ship Design for Ganga a Reality

The Designs Will Remove Ambiguity on the Class and Type of Vessels that Can Sail On River Ganga Will Translate Into Savings for Ship Builders

Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) today made public 13 standardised state-of-the-art ship designs suitable for large barge haulage on river Ganga (National Waterway-1).

This marks attaining of a critical milestone in the growth of the country’s Inland Water Transport (IWT) sector as it will help overcome the unique navigation challenges river Ganga throws due to its complex river morphology, hydraulics, acute bends, shifting channels, meanders and current. It will serve as an enabler for domestic shipbuilding industry working on inland vessels and open huge possibilities for cargo and passenger movement on National Waterway-1.

The Government is implementing Jal Marg Vikas Project (JMVP) for capacity augmentation of navigation on NW-1 (Varanasi-Haldia stretch) at a cost of Rs 5369.18 crore with the technical assistance and investment support of the World Bank. Even as the work on JMVP is going on in full steam, the specially designed vessels will navigate on low drafts with high carrying capacity and at the same time, environment friendly. For the shipbuilding industry, the new designs will translate into a savings of Rs 30-50 lakhs in the building of a vessel.

Available free on the IWAI website, the designs will remove ambiguity on the class and type of vessels that can sail on river Ganga with efficient manoeuvrability. They will help shipyards build vessels of standardised dimensions and capacity and make them available off the shelf besides developing the ‘sale and purchase’ market for inland vessels. The designs will lead to reduced fuel costs and in turn lesser logistics costs.

These vessels will sail even in depths of about two metres carrying about 350 cars on a five deck car carrier. Some of the designs would enable movement of bulk cargo carriers with capacity of 2500 tonnes at three metres depth, thereby, removing almost 150 truckloads of pressure from the road or one full rail rake with the plying of just one such vessel.

The new designs for various categories of dry and liquid bulk carrier, Ro-Ro vessels, car carrier, container carrier, LNG carrier, Tug Barge flotilla (Table below) have been made by M/s DST, Germany which specialises in low draft and high carrying capacity vessels. The model testings of the designs were done at Duisburg, Germany.

IWAI had awardsed the contract to M/s DST in September, 2016 through global bidding after a rigorous screening. When the Scoping Missions from World Bank first travelled on river Ganga, very typical challenges were observed unlike the trained rivers like Rhine, Danube, Mississippi and St. Lawrence Seaways which are flourishing waterways. The new designs are a result of rigorous river studies conducted by a high-level technical team comprising of experts from IWAI, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and Indian Register of Shipping with periodical technical consultations with domain experts of the World Bank.

The new designs will obviate the dependence of Indian Ship builders on foreign ship designs for IWT and prove to be a boost to ‘Make in India’ initiative of the Government.

The standardization of IWT vessel design (efficient & low draft) has been done under the following categories:



Vessel Type

DWT of Vessel

Dry Bulk Carrier

1. 1570 Tons
2. 2120 Tons

• (iii) 2480 Tons

Liquid Bulk Carrier

1. 1460 Tons
2. 2400 Tons

Ro-Ro Vessel

1. 770 DWT; 18 Trucks

Container Carrier Vessel

1. 1540 Tons; 96 TEU
2. 2480 Tons; 208 TEU

LNG Carrier Vessel

1. 630 Tons
2. 1070 Tons

Tug Barge Flotilla

to push 4 dumb barges

LNG powered Dry Bulk Carrier

(i) 2420 Tons

Car Carrier Vessel

(i) ~ 350 cars





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[Hindustani78]

Ministry of Shipping
08-October, 2018 18:10 IST
Shri Nitin Gadkari to lay the foundation stone for development of Ghagra river as National Waterway in Uttar Pradesh tomorrow

IWAI begins development works Phase 1

Union Minister for Shipping, Road Transport & Highways and Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation Shri Nitin Gadkari will lay the foundation stone for the development work of Ghagra river as National Waterway (NW)-40 tomorrow at Basti in Uttar Pradesh, under the Sagarmala Programme of Ministry of Shipping.

The waterway from Manjhighat at Ganga-Gaghra river confluence to Faizabad/Ayodhya along Gaghra River for a length of 354 km was declared as NW-40 during the year 2016, as part of Government’s renewed push to develop inland waterways sector in the country. Together with NW-1 (on river Ganga), NW-40 will be provide to be a major transport modal choice for cargo and passenger movement. The Detailed Project Report on the development of NW-40 envisages terminal at five locations – Ayodhya, Mahirpur (Tanda/Kalwari), Dohrighat, Tortipar and Manjhighat.

Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI), under Ministry of Shipping has already initiated work in Phase –I with project cost of Rs. 11.6 Cr and has constructed the floating terminal at Tanda/Kalwari to facilitate cargo & passenger movement on River Ghagra & River Ganga. Under Phase 1, the draft of 2 metre and width of 45 metre will be constructed in addition to floating terminals through Pontoon-Gangway at two locations- Tanda/Kalwari and Manjhighat.

The DPR on NW-40 projects movement of various categories of cargo, namely, agricultural products (rice, wheat, pulses, sugar, livestock), industrials products, coal (for Tanda power plant), coarse sand, bricks, paper products, leather and other general goods etc. through inland vessel capacity up to 1000 tonne. The first phase works are scheduled to be completed by 2019-20. This waterway is being classified as class-III waterway which envisages movement of up to 1000 ton capacity vessels. Besides cargo and passenger movement, NW-40 will provide a connectivity to tourist and pilgrimage places along river Gaghra and Ganga.

Other projects under IWAI in Uttar Pradesh include, Freight Village & Logistics Hub and Multimodal terminal at Varanasi under the Jal Marg Vikas Project. The terminal is being constructed at a cost of ₹169.70 cr with a capacity of 1.26 MTPA. The terminal is likely to be inaugurated in the month of November, 2018. The terminal will boost trade via waterways with reduced logistics costs. Better connectivity to coastal regions and neighbouring countries like Nepal, Bangladesh & North eastern states through Indo-Bangladesh Protocol route will help MSMEs to expand trade & commerce and also provide optimal multi modal mix.

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[Hindustani78]

Ministry of Shipping
10-October, 2018 17:14 IST
IWAI to launch new Ro-Ro service to Majuli Island; will cut down the travel distance from 423 KMs to 12.7 KMs

Chief Minister of Assam to flag off Kamalabari - Neamati service tomorrow

Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) will be starting a new Roll on-Roll off (Ro-Ro) facility in collaboration with the Government of Assam to provide the much-needed connectivity for Majuli Island. The Chief Minister of Assam Shri Sarbananda Sonowal will flag off a new Ro-Ro Service on 11th October, 2018. This Ro-Ro facility will cut down the circuitous road route of 423 KMs that trucks take from Neamati to Majuli Island via Tezpur Road Bridge, by limiting the distance to only 12.7 KM with the use of river route.

IWAI has procured a new vessel MV Bhupen Hazarika at a cost of Rs 9.46 Crore for the new service and is providing the needed terminal infrastructure too. The 46.5-metre-long, 13.3-metre-wide vessel has the carrying capacity of eight trucks and 100 passengers. IWAI is also planning to procure more such Ro-Ro vessels for use on river Brahmaputra.

Majuli is one of the biggest riverine islands in the world located on river Brahmaputra and faces serious challenges of connectivity. It has 144 villages with a population of over 1,50,000. The commencement of Ro-Ro services to Majuli island would be a landmark event towards augmenting connectivity not only in Assam but the entire North Eastern Region. Currently, there are only four road bridges across river Brahmaputra - at Jogighopa, Guwahati, Tezpur and Sadiya for connectivity between southern and northern parts of Assam. People residing on either side of the river need to cross the river using conventional ferry service at various locations for their day to day needs. In absence of adequate number of bridges, cargo and passenger movement takes through longer road routes leading to critical loss of time and money.

Earlier, IWAI had started a similar Ro-Ro service between Dhubri and Hatsingimari which reduced the travel distance by 190 KMs. A permanent Ro-Ro terminal was constructed at Dhubri for the purpose. Floating terminals have also been constructed at 11 locations along the length of the Brahmaputra waterway. These are at Hatsingimari, Dhubri, Jogighopa, Tezpur, Silghat, Biswanathghat, Neamati, Sengajan, Bogibeel, Dibugarh/ Oakland and Oriumghat.

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[Hindustani78]

29-October, 2018 14:38 IST
In India’s first container movement on inland waterways PEPSICO to move 16 containers from Kolkata to Varanasi

Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) will transport container cargo belonging to the food and beverage giant PepsiCo (India) from Kolkata to Varanasi on river Ganga (National Waterway-1) tomorrow. This would be the country’s first container movement on inland vessel post-independence, and a milestone moment in the history of India’s IWT sector. PepsiCo (India) will move 16 containers – equivalent to 16 truckloads- filled with food and snacks in the vessel MV RN Tagore which will reach Varanasi in 9-10 days. MV RN Tagore will make its return journey with fertilizers belonging to IFFCO that will be procured from its Phulpur plant near Allahabad.

Secretary (Shipping), Govt. of India, Shri Gopal Krishna along with Chairman, IWAI, Shri Pravir Pandey and other senior Government officials will flag off the vessel carrying the consignment in the presence of PepsiCo representatives. The event coincides with another momentous day for IWT in India as IWAI’s first foray into Public Private Partnership (PPP) model will become a reality with the handing over of operation and management of its terminals in Kolkata to M/s Summit Alliance Port East Gateway (India) Pvt Ltd. (SAPEL) on a supply, operate and maintain (SOM) model.

Container cargo transport comes with several inherent advantages. Even as it reduces the handling cost, allows easier modal shift, reduces pilferages and damage, it also enables cargo owners to reduce their carbon footprints.

The government is developing NW-1 (River Ganga) under JMVP from Haldia to Varanasi (1390 Km) with the technical and financial assistance of the World Bank at an estimated cost of Rs 5369 crore. The project would enable commercial navigation of vessels with capacity of 1500-2,000 DWT.

The Union Minister for Shipping Shri Nitin Gadkarihad flagged off a consignment of Maruti cars from Varanasi to Haldia in August, 2016. Since then pilot movements on National Waterways are currently being done on various stretches. More than 15 of them have already been successfully completed, including integrated movements through NW-1 (Ganga), Indo-Bangladesh Protocol Route and NW-2 (Brahmaputra). The PepsiCo cargo will be the first container movement on inland waterways in the country.



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29-October, 2018 14:04 IST
In its first Public Private Partnership IWAI to hand over Its Kolkata Terminals to a private company on supply, operate , maintain model

The Project is Expected to tap The huge potential of Nepal bound containerised cargo on National Waterways -1


Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) will make its foray into Public Private Partnership (PPP) tomorrowwhen it hands overthe operation and management of its terminals in Kolkata to M/s Summit Alliance Port East Gateway (India) Pvt Ltd. (SAPEL) on a supply, operate and maintain (SOM) model . The handing over will be done in the presence of Shipping Secretary Shri Gopal Krishna at an event in Kolkata.

The terminals GR Jetty-I & BISN and GR Jetty-II of Inland Water Transport (IWT) will be handed over to SAPEL for equipping, operating and managing on a revenue sharing model. The operator will have the right to collect user fees from the users as per the tariff rates notified by IWAI. The contract will be valid for a period of 30 years. M/s SAPEL was awarded the contract in August, 2017 under a revenue sharing arrangement of 61.70% to itself and 38.30 % to IWAI through a global tendering process for this work for Garden Reach Terminal in Kolkata and Gaighat and Kalughat Terminal in Patna. Being the first PPP project undertaken by IWAI under SOM model, the event paves the way for private investment in the development of IWT in India.


The IWT terminals GR Jetty-I & BISN and GR Jetty-II are spread over 30,409.64 square metre and 14,557 square metre respectively, and have two permanent RCC jetties and one floating jetty besides a Roll on- Roll off terminal. The transportation of trucks on vessels from BISN jetty to Sankrail on the bank and participation of private sector in operation and management of the facilities will improve the operational efficiency of the jetties.


According to IWAIChairman Shri Pravir Pandey, under the transactional structure worked out by International Finance Corporation (IFC), the operator will undertake the operations and maintenance services at both Kolkata and Patna clusters and invest in cargo handling equipment, container handling equipment and warehousing. The operator will also provide labour, professionals, supervisory, and managerial personnel for performance of operations and maintenance services. The proposed project will facilitate a modal shift of up to 55% of the potential cargo in the catchment area to IWT mode.. Existing potential of anchor cargo is of 56,000 TEUs (to/from catchment area) during the base year and expected to grow to 250,000 TEUs over next 15 years. The current handling capacity of terminal is 1.6 MT which includes bulk and break - bulk cargo. The operator is expected to increase this capacity by three times in next five years.

The development of both Kolkata and Patna terminals is being undertaken with a view to tap the huge potential of Nepal bound containerised cargo on NW-1. While the available cargo upstream (for Nepal) at present is 44,000 TEU, the cargo potential downstream stands at 12,000 TEU.

Barging from Kolkata to Patna will lead to cost saving by approximately 24% and 4 % as compared to road and rail respectively when return cargo is available. Barging from Kolkata to Kathmandu will lead to cost savings by approximately 13% and 26% as compared to road and rail respectively when return cargo is available from around Patna.

A periodic and reliable barge shuttle service between the two terminals will cater to freight movement between Kolkata and Patna. Hinterland catchment area of Bihar and Nepal will also be served through this route. The barge shuttle will act as a cargo feeder/evacuation channel of Kolkata port to the hinterland. Patna (Kalughat) terminal when ready, could act as an extended gate of Kolkata Port. The shuttle service could also act as a feeder or evacuation channel to Dhamra Port in future.

The Kolkata terminals will also facilitate domestic bound and EXIM cargo for North Eastern Region and Bangladesh even as it will prove advantageous for shippers plying on the Indo-Bangladesh Protocol Route. On 25 October, 2018, India and Bangladesh signed milestone agreements to deepen their maritime relationship. Kolaghat (West Bengal, India) and Chilmari (Bangladesh) were declared as new Ports of Call (PoC). Besides this, an agreement for the use of Mongla and Chattogram port (Bangladesh) for transiting goods to and from India and passenger and cruise vessels from Kolkata to Dhaka and Guwahati through the protocol route were also agreed on.

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[Hindustani78]

Ministry of Shipping
08-November, 2018 16:57 IST
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi will dedicate to the nation the Multi Modal Terminal on River Ganga at Varanasi on 12th November

PM will also receive India’s First Container Cargo being transported on an Inland Waterway

Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi will dedicate to the nation the newly constructed Multi Modal Terminal on River Ganga at Varanasi on Monday, the 12th of November, 2018. This is the first of the three Multi Modal Terminals and two Inter Modal Terminals being constructed on the river. The MMTs are being built as part of the Government’s Jal Marg Vikas project that aims to develop the stretch of River Ganga between Varanasi to Haldi for navigation of large vessels upto 1500-2000 tonnes weight, by maintaining a drought of 2-3 metres in this stretch of the river and setting up other systems required for safe navigation. The objective is to promote inland waterways as a cheaper and more environment friendly means of transport, especially for cargo movement. Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) is the project Implementing Agency


The Jal Marg Vikas Project (JMVP) is being implemented on the Haldia-Varanasi stretch of National Waterway-1 (NW-1) with the technical assistance and investment support of the World Bank, at an estimated cost of Rs. 5,369.18 crores (USD 800 million, of which USD 375 is IBRD loan) on a 50:50 sharing basis between Government of India and the World Bank. The project entails construction of 3 multimodal terminals (Varanasi, Sahibganj and Haldia); 2 intermodal terminals; 5 Roll On – Roll Off (Ro-Ro) terminal pairs; new navigation lock at Farakka; assured depth dredging; integrated vessel repair & maintenance facility, Differential Global Positioning System (DGPS), River Information System (RIS), river training & river conservancy works.

Salient features of Varanasi Mutli-Modal Terminal (MMT) are as follows

• First Multi-Modal Terminal on National Waterway -1.
• Land: 33.34 hectares.
• Cost of Phase-I of MMT: Rs. 206.84 cr.
• Terminal capacity: 1.26 MPTA
• Start date of the project: June, 2016
• Completion date of the project: November 2018

The following are the main ingredients of the project, which are ready for operations:

• Jetty: Length 200 m x Width 42 m with berthing and mooring facility.
• 02 Mobile Harbour Cranes
• Approach Road
• Internal Road
• Stone Pitching Works and bank protection
• Shell structure of ancillary buildings, worker amenity building ready

Operation, management and further development of the Multi Modal Terminal is proposed to be entrusted to an Operator on PPP model. Selection of the PPP Operator through an International Competitive Bidding is at advanced stage and expected to be completed by December 2018.

The project of multi-modal terminal and proposed Freight Village at Varanasi are expected to generate 500 direct employment and more than 2000 indirect employment opportunities.

Prime Minister will also receive India’s first container vessel that sailed from Kolkata on 30th October 2018, carrying cargo belonging to PEPSICO (India) from Kolkata to Varanasi. Container movement on an inland waterway in India is being done for the first time post-independence. The IWAI vessel, MV RABINDRANATH TAGORE is transporting 16 containers equivalent to 16 truckloads of food and snacks and is expected to reach Varanasi on 11th November 2018. It will make its return journey with fertilizers from IFFCO.

In a separate event the same day, Prime Minister will also inaugurate two National Highways projects – the Babatpur-Varanasi Airport road and Varanasi Ring Road. In addition to this, he will also inaugurate some sewerage projects in the city and lay foundation stone for a project under NamamiGange programme of National Mission for Clean Ganga.

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[HariPrasad]

This is national waterway 1 , the dream project of Nitin Gadkari to bring down transportation cost.

 

[Hindustani78]

This is national waterway 1 , the dream project of Nitin Gadkari to bring down transportation cost.

All this is linked with the Ballistic Missile Shield which is to cover the whole religious sites. Bhagwan Shree Ram Mandir will be reality soon.

 

[Nilgiri]

Its long overdue, waterways were totally underdeveloped this long for logistics.....just need to look at how Europe (esp germany, benelux and France), North America (esp mississippi + NE + great lakes USA/Canada), China etc have developed their internal waterways. @Vergennes

Combined with GST and improving ease of business reforms + NPA resolution process, this will put a good bedrock for long term growth of the nation. DFC + NHAI+ IWAI + industry/export clusters + ports/airports will be the key project implementations logistics wise in India for the coming years and decades.

@anant_s @kaykay @gslv mk3 @randomradio

 

[SuvarnaTeja]

Water is needed for drinking. It is foolish to pollute the drinking water with these vessels.

 

[Bilal9]

PepsiCo to move 16 containers along National Waterways-1 from Kolkata to Varanasi on inland vessel

This project would allow commercial navigation of container vessels with a capacity of 1,500 to 2,000 DWT


OPINDIA STAFF
NOVEMBER 3, 2018

PepsiCo to move 16 containers from Kolkata to Varanas in the vessel MV RN Tagore
For the first time in India’s history, a container vessel has been used for logistics transportation on the National Waterways-1 along the River Ganga. National Waterways-1, an inland waterway from Haldia to Allahabad has been developed to boost India’s interstate cargo transportation.

According to the reports, a container cargo belonging to PepsiCo (India) is being transported from Kolkata to Varanasi. The vessel containing the cargo was flagged off by Union Shipping Secretary Gopal Krishna along with Chairman of IWAI, Pravir Pandey.

Gopal Krishna said that the development of National Waterways-1 will enable easier and efficient cargo movement to the east and northeastern states of the country. Gopal Krishna further added that development of multi-modal hubs within the time duration of three years will lead to a considerable increase in the volume of cargo movement through waterways and said that it will also lead to the development of cruise tourism in the country by next year.

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The container vessel named MV Rabindranath Tagore is carrying about 16 containers, which is equal to 16 truckloads of food and snacks on Indian roads, will be transported through the Ganga river. The container vessel will take another 9 to 10 days to reach Varanasi and will make its return journey with fertilizers from IFFCO that will be procured from its Phulpur plant, situated near Allahabad.

The Union government has officially notified 111 waterways in the country for the development of Inland water transportation as per The National Waterways Act, 2016. The Union government had initially recognised 5 inland waterways and had declared it as part of the National Waterways project. Later in 2016, the Centre decided to further develop additional 106 inland waterways across the country.

The central government is developing the National Waterways-I (River Ganga) under Jal Marg Vikas Project form Haldia to Varanasi, covering a distance of 1,620km at a cost of around Rs 5,369 crore, with the financial and technical assistance from the World Bank. This project would allow commercial navigation of container vessels with a capacity of 1,500 to 2,000 DWT.

An 891 km National Waterways-2 has been planned along Brahmaputra River from Sadiya to Dhubri. The National Waterways-3 (205km) is being developed on Kollam-Kozhikode stretch of West Coast Canal and Champakara canal and Udyogmandal canal in the state of Kerala.

Kakinada-Puducherry stretch of Canals and the Kaluvelly Tank, Bhadrachalam-Rajahmundry stretch of river Godavari and Wazirabad-Vijayawada stretch of river Krishna (1078 km) has been designated as National Waterway-4. Talcher-Dhamra stretch of Rivers, Geonkhali-Charbatia stretch of East Coast Canal, Charbatia-Dhamra stretch of Matai river and Mahanadi Delta Rivers (588 Km) declared as National Waterway in 2008 in the states of West Bengal and Orissa.

 

[Skull and Bones]

Water is needed for drinking. It is foolish to pollute the drinking water with these vessels.

I bet you dip your glass directly in the river for drinking, the effect of that is clearly visible in your intelligence.

 

[SuvarnaTeja]

I bet you dip your glass directly in the river for drinking, the effect of that is clearly visible in your intelligence.

I would like to but unfortunately it is not possible.

 

[Skull and Bones]

I would like to but unfortunately it is not possible.

I thought it's those brain eating parasites to blame. I guess some people are just born dumb.

 

[SuvarnaTeja]

I thought it's those brain eating parasites to blame. I guess some people are just born dumb.

Glad you learnt something today.

 

[lemurian]

Gadkari has done some great work. Excellent minister.